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| Most achingly-beautiful music Schubert String Quartet #14; Death and the Maiden, Second Movement. The many variations in this movement is quite unusual, achingly-beautiful and brilliant for those unfamiliar with it, highly recommended. I would also be interested in recommendat... | |
| Tubes are not so unreliable I certainly do remember Trejla. My parents bought a Zenith maple console in 1959. I grew up listening to music on that unit and it had VERY good sound. Until a lightning strike "done it in" at which time it could'nt be repaired after repeated trie... | |
| Tubes are not so unreliable Interestingly enough I have a pair of MC-60's. One is from 1956 vintage the other later. I am the 3rd owner. I had the ORIGINAL 6550 output tubes in that amp until 1995. I don't know what that says about today's tubes but it sure tells me a bit ab... | |
| Can $15,000 Sound As Good As $75,000? Sorry for the redundancy in the first 2 para. of the post. Did I mention real dynamics, more money and justification enough to get across the point do you think? | |
| Can $15,000 Sound As Good As $75,000? Great Question and what I suspect that to justify spending 75K on a system which would also have exceptional bass that couldn't be had in the 15K system, a large room is required. That to me is the justification in spending more as Reprince notes,... | |
| Counterpoint and Mike Elliot Kubla, it seems Albert Porter mentioned once in a thread that he had an SA-11. Might e-mail him. Good luck in finding one. | |
| Comparing: Merlin VSM Millenium and Ver Sorry Rayhall I see you heard them at the show. Nothing amiss there I'm sure at least in the Joule room. | |
| Comparing: Merlin VSM Millenium and Ver I haven't compared but would like to comment on Rayhall's remarks concerning the Merlins being voiced to accentuate the upper mids and highs. I really don't know what gear you listened on but even with a receiver I can't imagine that you would get... | |
| Some Fun? "B" Groups/Performers?? I agree again with Artemus. I loved the early REO, especially REO Two with Boots Randolph jamming with the band on their version of "Little Queenie". Essentially a B band for most of their careers with their best stuff being their earliest IMO. | |
| Some Fun? "B" Groups/Performers?? Whatjd Dinah Washington OK but how dare you 2nd down Sarah to Billie Holliday:*) Billie may have had a magic with some but she was a one octave singer to me. Sarah is the Divine One.Poco to Buffalo Springfield and CSNY. Expanded further Steven Sti... | |
| ARC D-115 ..need advice One more thing, so far as biasing it is indeed a pain with this amp as the contact points for testing are between the tubes and there are high voltages to work around but if you can find a dealer who will let you watch as he sets the bias with the... | |
| ARC D-115 ..need advice The Svetlana 6550C's are very good and appear to be very stable as well. I have a set in my ARC D-115 Mk2 which I am shamelessly going to say is for sale, great amp btw, just don't need the power and it ISN'T as good as the OTL that replaced it. H... | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE I have owned 3 speaker systems over the past 15 years including my present system. The reason? I couldn't get any to work right in my previous room. I have since moved things around and have been living with the Merlin VSM-M for about 1 year now. ... | |
| Upgrading to Tube; Amp or Preamp Rav1952 It is a misnomer to conclude that tube gear is necessarily too laid back with Vandy's. Depends on the gear. ARC which has a more upfront presentation matches extremely well with Vandersteen, real synergy. Conrad Johnson which is a bit dark... | |
| I am nuts to use these speakers? How ya gonna keep em down on the farm after they've seen Paree? The door is cracked open and there is no turning back now. Good luck with your search Ntscdan. |