Recent content by noobydoo

Hello all. Just picked up a c200 for next to nothing and was wondering about users experience with this pre, I've seen mixed reviews but decided to grab it untested as I know arcam doesn't usually make junk. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thinking of pairing it with a vintage Audire 2...

CS's are what you get when I meant to type CD's and didn't read my post before I posted it.

Hello. Way back in the late 80's I had a friend who recorded his whole vinyl collection onto hi fi vhs video tapes using just the audio track. I seem to recall the quality was near that of CD's. Anyone here still us vhs for audio? Cheers

Hi. Thanks for the reply. It's a model 2. 100 wpc. 1 transformer. 2 caps the size of coke cans. No power button. I believe it was normally sold with the preamp which I don't have. Has a green led that stays on when power is on as well as 2 other leds that glow yellow, then red as you approach...

I currently have a model 2 that I love. There's one on ebay that is advertised as not working but I from it's description it sounds more like an end user issue. My question is if I do get it and the problem is more serious than I believe it to be are parts available, original or replacement to...

I'm not sure why but many of the audio enthusiasts I encounter are often motorcycle enthusiast as well. I don't mean just that they own a motorcycle but that many of them are collectors of motorcycles as well as audio gear. I myself was a motorbike enthusiast till I moved to a large city where...

I completely agree. As I mentioned I simply used it as a rule of thumb. Regardless of the THD numbers if you need really complex circuitry in order to achieve lower thd there is bound to be a tradeoff somewhere. I've always sought amps that were as close as possible to the straight line with...

Just wondering, did you mean.01 or .1. Although there are obviously exceptions I always used .01 as a rule of thumb. This isn't because I claim to be able to distinguish the difference between say.01 and .06 but I did find , in general, that amps that had lower distortion figures tended to be...

Oddly enough you're not the first to make this generous offer

Funny you should mention the soda cans. The friend who bought the samsung system i referred to was over and I pulled the top off my audire model 2 to show him the caps. I held a sprite can next to them and proceeded to give him a mini lesson about capacitance and current :) I've been wanting...

how much for the bridge? :)

Very well put. As I stated earlier I was being somewhat provocative and was hoping to start a discussion. Mission accoplished :). None of my vintage gear is going anywhere, although I may consider adding a couple of class D(T) for a spare room system or recommend one to a friend who has limited...

The amp in my

Lepai lp 160. I'm obviously being provocotive. This arose out of a discussion I had with a friend who recently purchased a samsung home theater system that purportedly has 1000 watts system power. I tried to explain to him the concept that all watts are not created equal but it fell on deaf...