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| Best or most profound sleeper product McCormack Micro Line Drive preamp performs on much higher than mid-fi levels in both active or passive mode if active mode is not chosen to be the highest gain under the box cover. It smokes models that are much more expencive. | |
| Amp play a low volumes? How low(volumewise) can a real trumpet sound? How low can any brass instrument sound(also volumewise)? How low do you listen to a real piano or grand-piano in the room? Did you try to sing along with the singer that you hear from your speaker in u... | |
| Cartridge output matching to phono stage. a step-up of 20dB will not be enough for the phono input with input sencitivity of 4.5mV. The preamp section will not be having the specified gain and output parameters if you feed a voltage less than input sencitivity.A step-up transformer with 3... | |
| Review: Plinius 8200 Amplifier What speakers did you use?I listened this amp with Totem Model1 sig monitors and it was realy enjoyable. This amp has no edgines and yet excellent detail and musicality. From what I notice there is some "Plinius signature" of sound present in each... | |
| Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list Try on CD Jasper Van't Hof's Face to Face with Ernie Watts and Bo Stief. | |
| Digital Front End.. help please YEP, GamuT is not as warm as BAT but very and very close to reality... | |
| The most musical system you ever build? I didn't build it but I realy heard:Nottinham Analogue Spacedeck/arm/VanDenHul Black Beauty, Manley Stingray phono preampSENNHEIZER ORPHEUS ear-speaker system.Not only my ears but my stomach also was hungry to listen to this setup more and more. Y... | |
| Digital Front End.. help please dennis, BAT Vk-D5se is a great CD player but with no transferable warranty. You should judge the right price to give for this unit.I would wait-on till I get another 1k and get GamuT CD1 brand-new(meaning that used BAT is ~2K+-). | |
| Rectifying bridge. Thanks for all the reponces.The upgrade I ment is to bring another bridge assembled as whole without getting into changing diodes(a real pain to match). The Albert's idea seems to be great if I can acquire the assembled hexfred rectifier. | |
| Modifying to 220V operation. How to make sure? Herman, I have textbooks and I'm able to read the circuits.It's much tougher to do it without a circuit diagram knowing only basics. I tend to know as much variables as possible in order to start or not-to start at all. Twl's responce seems to be ... | |
| Another dumb question Slartibartfast has the right point. Very often high powered amps require higher input voltage and so you should match the preamp for your new amp. | |
| Modifying to 220V operation. How to make sure? Thanks Twl! It's simple and genius. Whattadumb i am! Bridge, Cathode voltage... it's far more simplier.Thanks for warning working with high voltage. I take all precautions not to get electricuted.You might also be right about VTL people that by de... | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? The real audiofile must drive his own speakers. Make shure you won't clip.You can also be qualified(depending on the current you can pass) for the certain class of operation A, B, C or D.Class A -- tracktor-trailersClass B -- Buses and trucks with... | |
| BMG CD's ARE worse one more thing: whenever i bid on any ebay cd i make sure to ask seller if it's bmg-columbiahouse-free or any dumb-club-free issue. otherwise it ain't worth a penny for me. | |
| Linn Linto vs Audio Research PH3 ARC PH3 has MOSFET output stage and 6922 driving stage so it's hybrid tube/ss.I use Ortofon T1000 high quality step-up transformer with great results. It perfectly matches impedance and boosts a gain to the total of 72 dB with minimal noise.The ca... |