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| High End Isolation - HRS, SRA, Active platforms I personally use Symposium Ultra shelves and solid couplers under my amplifiers and linestage, and Svelte Shelves under my speakers. I am particularly happy with what the shelves do under my speakers (tighten up the bass and improve clarity). But,... | |
| Two questions about the latest Martin Logan's I haven't heard the Vista, so I cannot comment on them, but, I had the opportunity to talk to Mr. Sanders, the head honcho of ML at the time, and he had some very interesting things to say about the size/design of his speakers. At the time, he was... | |
| What's Toshiba replacing the Toshiba HD XA2 with? I am waiting for the Denon 3800 to show up in the US to determine whether a top quality Blu-ray machine is worth purchasing (I am particularly concerned with how it handles/upscales regular DVDs). The bad news is that the price appears to be daunt... | |
| Obscure companies making excellent speakers? Add to this list the following:Oskar Heil Speakers--keeping alive the Heil pleated ribbon speaker technology. I heard these at CES a while back and thought they sounded pretty promising.Trenner & Friedl -- Austrian, I believe. They make very m... | |
| Would a heavy hand on the volume blow my 845s Also, I may have this wrong, but with a SET, isn't the tube dissipating at maximum when there is NO signal, and is then modulated downward by the signal it is amplifying? | |
| Boulder 2008 A friend has that phono stage and the Boulder line stage in his system. The rest of the electronics, including his DAC, are tube based. I have not heard either Boulder piece in my own system, so it is hard to say with certainty what aspects of the... | |
| SS Pre-Amp / Tube Amp I agree with Audiokinesis. First you pick a speaker you love, then find a great sounding amp that is compatible with your speaker choice. That amp may be a solid state amp if higher power or ability to drive a difficult load becomes an important c... | |
| A 9 watts SET for the Maggies, Heavenly marriage A friend of mine, just because he likes to experiment, put a single-ended 45 amp on his 3.6 maggies. That amp puts out about 1.5 watts and was, of course, WAY underpowered for these speakers. However, he has also run them with a Wyetech SET that u... | |
| Suspended vs. non suspended turntable If one has a suspended wood floor that could cause footfall problems, then a light suspended table would not be ideal. I've seen situations where the footfall causes such tables to go into prolonged oscillation and for the tendency for skipping to... | |
| Euphoric Realism vs. Euphonic Romanticism Exlibris,I have heard one of contending ANJ models, but I don't recall the specific model number. It was a little brighter than a comparably priced ANuk model, but, it was certainly not excessively bright or strident. I liked it a lot.The Epifania... | |
| Euphoric Realism vs. Euphonic Romanticism Exlibris,As you know probably better than most of us, system integration/compatibility and personal taste makes it pretty much impossible to predict how any one recommended component would work for you. I think it is terrific that you are not aski... | |
| Who else wants to keep their system secret? Sometimes it is helpful to have an idea of the kind of sound a poster favors in order to understand what he is saying or what he is looking for when enquiring about components.To me, this is an important reference point when the discussion is abou... | |
| Power amp s for Avantgarde Duos? I've heard, and liked the duos with a number of different amps, such as the Art Audio PX-25 and the Viva Solista. I particularly like it with the Solista. I also heard the Duos with a couple of different OTL amps (one by S.A.P., the other a custom... | |
| Great Cartridge for Graham Phantom I have heard, in a friend's system, the Titan and Orpheus and Phoenix on the Phantom arm. All are very good sounding and a preference will probably depend on taste and differences in other system components. To me, the Phantom is a very well dampe... | |
| For people with experience with Class-A amps I find it interesting that the amp gets hot quicker playing loud. That suggests that it is not a pure Class A amp. With a pure Class A amp, delivering a lot of power to the load (the speakers) would decrease the amount of power the amp dissipates ... |