wrm57
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| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? Alonksi,I've come to prefer the VAC phono but it's really a matter of splitting hairs and I wouldn't say the VAC is "better" than the Manley. In some ways, like dynamics, the Manley brings more. The VAC is a little more organic. Different presenta... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? From what Brent at VAC told me, their stand-alone phonostage will be a two-box, four-input affair retailing for around the price of a current Sig mk IIa preamp without the phono option, so it'll be pricey. It will integrate into the Sig mk IIa as ... | |
| PMC FB1i's Congrats on your PMCs, a great and undersung brand. I'm extremely happy with Acoustic Zen speaker cables on my IB2i, which are tri-wired with Holograms on the woofers and Satori shotgun bi-wires on the mids and tweets. Having experimented with sil... | |
| Recommend a Tube Pre & SS Amp Combo The new Bryston SST2 amps are really nice--powerful, transparent, sonically balanced, grain-free--and have excellent synergy with VAC (especially the top models that are lower gain) and Aesthetix (especially Calypso Sig) preamps. You'll have to mi... | |
| Class A amplifiers - which are considered the best Reference Line Silver Signature from the late '90s. 100 watts into 8 ohms, doubles all the way down to 2 ohm loads. Designed for passive preamps and runs hot, so you have to be okay with those features. Top quality internal components. Built to la... | |
| Ads 1290's I paid $425 in a local sale six years ago and thought it a good deal. If they're near-mint, including the grills, jump on them. | |
| ANY EXPERIANCE WITH PASS LABS AND MONTANA EPS2? Hi John,Are you using them with the spikes? I found them to warm up considerably when placed flat on the floor (concrete slab, in my case, covered with linoleum) but the imaging suffered and the bass bloated a bit. I do like the big, screw-in spik... | |
| ANY EXPERIANCE WITH PASS LABS AND MONTANA EPS2? I had a somewhat different experience than other posters when I owned these speakers. I liked them quite a bit and thought they did most things very well, but I also found them to need power in order to fill in the low frequencies. At first I used... | |
| High grade tube pre with digital display I'm not sure it's the equal of all that have been suggested but it fits your bill: Aesthetix Calypso Signature. | |
| Cartridge Recommendation Jarrett,Don't know if this thread still matters to you, but I found the Kansui to be very sensitive to VTF and anti-skate on my Tri-planar. I had to drop VTF to around 2.16 before it really opened up on top, with minimal anti-skate (although more ... | |
| Tubes for your K&K Maxxed Out Phono? Hi Marc,I really liked the Maxxed Out. Especially at its price-point, I think it's a terrific piece. But I made the mistake of auditioning a Steelhead II and couldn't go back, so a good friend is now loving my K&K. Best,Bill | |
| Tubes for your K&K Maxxed Out Phono? Like Palasr, when I owned a premium Maxxed Out, I rolled a lot of high-buck tubes through it (e.g. early '60s Valvo Red Labels, 1964 USN-CEP Amperex 7308, Seimens 7308, some others) but ultimately returned to the stock tubes. Kevin did a good job ... | |
| "Best" bookshelf/monitor for low-power amp? Have you considered Merlins? For the last year, in my living room system, I've been using Merlin TSM Mmi with Master RCs and a Manley Stingray II. The room is 28x16x8, with another room attached in an L-shape. The Manley can be run in triode (18-2... | |
| 9-in arm for SPUs with easy VTA ? Lewm, thanks for the pointer. I saw that ad and gave serious thought to getting one and finding an FR64s. But I ended up with a new Tri-planar instead, feeling one arm for SPUs was probably enough. I'm very impressed with the Tri. | |
| 9-in arm for SPUs with easy VTA ? Correction: it looks like the link I supplied is for the Ortofon RS-212--not the same tonearm. I don't know where to find the RS-212D manual, sorry. |