zaikesman
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| Thiel CS 1.5 vs Small Martin Logan? Abe, I also answered your post about digital IC's, and I think we might have some similar system preferences - I run my Thiel 2.2's with a c-j MV-55, and I believe you use a Premier 11a, if I rememeber correctly from your past postings. I have hea... | |
| hopeless LP's There are actually several different, unrelated problems being referred to in this thread. If a record has been really, thoroughly cleaned and rinsed deep down, the remaining "ticks and pops" are surface noise resulting from minute scars in the vi... | |
| FM Tuners Sorry - I screwed up the connector description on that last post - it's an F-type termination, of course. | |
| FM Tuners Sean's point about antenna cable is well taken. To get optimized antenna location, a very long run may be needed, but obviously no one wants to spend the big bucks for such a length of "high-end" wire, especially when part of it might have to be e... | |
| FM Tuners As a former owner of an NAD 4155, I can tell you that both the reception and especially the sound are bettered by my current AudioLab 8000T (out of production, but I think this basic, "A"-rated unit is now being produced in an updated version by A... | |
| Marantz CDR500,.. up to the task? I'm also looking at this product, to use for home recording and as a CD transport to feed my Theta DSPro Basic IIIA DAC. I understand that the single-well version, the CDR631, has a better A-to-D converter for recording LP's. I haven't been able t... | |
| Tube amp for Thiel CS1.5s I have had great results using the CJ MV-55 to drive my Thiel CS2 2's. The smaller Thiels do not present a bad impedence curve to a decent 4-ohm rated tube amp. However, in a room the size of yours with the intention to use the system for home the... | |
| Need help on cartridge recommendation, under 500. This is the problem when it comes to phono cart's. I live in a major metro area (Wash. DC), and exactly NO local dealers could demo ONE $500 cart, let alone do a comparitive demo. How is one supposed to make an informed and personally satisfying s... | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE I think Ryllau answers his own question about as well it can be done in his 3rd post - audition those from manufacturers who have had the time and the track record to develop and refine proven designs, and who place an emphasis on timbral accuracy... | |
| What is the best 6SN7 driver tube? I am not an NOS tube aficianado. But I will say that in the output driver section of my c-j MV-55 power amp, I have tried various old American 6SN7's taken from my guitar amps,plus some originally store-branded NOS ones (probably of RCA manufactur... | |
| Speaker Hum Question In my previous post, I realize, I may not have given enough consideration to the description "dual-mono" of the amplifier. I am not familiar with this model, but if it is truly thus - that is to say, all the way back to the wall with 2 power cords... | |
| Speaker Hum Question You say that the hum is present with the pre in standby - this would tend to exonerate it, and everything before it. Try disconnecting the input leads to the power amp, then turn it on - if the noise is gone, it may have had something to do with t... | |
| one whiskey,one scotch,one beer 'Twas not the nearly & dearly departed John Lee, but the altogether more "urbane" rhythm'n'bluesman Amos Milburn who cut the original of your tune (correctly titled "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer"), a national hit on the R&B charts, fo... |