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| How do amplifiers work? The weight of the amp is some kind of indication of its prowess if you are talking about class A or AB amps. Those with switching power supplies can be made to be very potent and still weigh very little (ask Bob Carver). How they might sound is an... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Tchaikovsky Symphony No 1, Concertgebouw/Haitink on Philips 9500 777 bought sealed for $5.99 CAD. Now I have the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th (already had that last one but how can I remember albums bought twenty-five years ago?) purchased at the same ti... | |
| Personal speaker evolution I don't know if it actually is an evolutionary link, but I got Magneplanar MG 3.6Rs at the end of last year. I have been busily engaged in the job of getting them to run ever since. Bought used from a guy I would not recommend buying a hairpin fro... | |
| How do amplifiers work? Yes, an amp does have peak power normally quite a bit in excess of its nominal continuous rating. The class in which the amp works, the size of its power supply and whether it is stiffly regulated or not are all factors in by how much an amp will ... | |
| What's the difference between the Audio Research.. Why would a cd player sound different in different rooms? Surely the sound may be different from one room to the next, but that has to do with the speaker/room interface. How would you assess that the problem is upstream in the system? Enlighten m... | |
| Sytrofoam peanuts and EVIL and worthless I never thought I would agree with anything Anarchy ever said. This time I do. Just goes to show. When you double box cartridges, peanuts are actually quite good around the cartridge's own box. Anything heavy and all they provide is a false sense ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Brand new copy of Vivaldi, "Le Quattro stagioni" Gidon Kremer, LSO Claudio Abbado. DGG 2531 287. I like it much better than the other recording I have on CD that uses period instruments by The Academy of Ancient Music. | |
| Are any of these made in vinyl? What, you don't have a CD player? | |
| How to track down bad tube and what can it mean? I don't think my local ARC dealer's service dept. would have figured out the ficus tree syndrome! Glad you found the source of your woes. | |
| How do amplifiers work? It's unfortunate that magazines like Audio, or Stereo Review or High Fidelity no longer exist. In the "good ol' days" they usually ran an article on basics once a year, maybe more. In those days, we simpletons believed that there was some science ... | |
| How to track down bad tube and what can it mean? With my ARC PH-3, I had a situation were I replaced all the tubes with NOS JAN Philips and everything seemed ok for a while. Then, problems with the right channel. My intention was to put back the original Sovteks one by one until the unit worked,... | |
| What do you look like? Anarchy, just took a look at your picture. Based on your various pronouncements here on this site, I swear central casting sent you down. Boy do you look the part! | |
| Golden age of vinyl recordings? The present period properly referred to as the "high nostalgic" period. This period is noted by people scrounging for every piece of old vinyl extant or else paying $50.00 a piece for records that are often enough poorly pressed. Good vinyl may be... | |
| Amp for my Salons Do yourself a favour and arrange for a home auditioning period of the Brystons and of another more expensive amp. Then let your ears decide. If folks stopped thinking of audio equipment less as trophies and more as machines that have a job to perf... | |
| Amp for my Salons "... certainly tend to get what you pay for in hi-fi.", is that a fact or your opinion? |