213cobra
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| Zu Soul Superfly >>The only thing Phil hasn't come back on is the type of music he listened to. It would be really good, if you can tear yourself away, to hear about what you're listening to and what they're doing to it.<<Music selection has been omniv... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Gopher,I had an email exchange with Sean Casey this morning, regarding what should ship with Soul:a set of protective dust coversa set of stainless hard surface footers (installed)a set of stainless jam nuts (installed)a set of long carpet spikesg... | |
| Blu ray with good Redbook specs? First, I think you will likely prefer 2ch analog out into analog inputs of your Elite receiver for listening to Redbook CD, over optical out to the receiver, if using a BDP-09. The BDP-09 DACs are excellent, as is the analog audio output section. ... | |
| Blu ray with good Redbook specs? The Pioneer Elite BDP-09 is an excellent Redbook CD player, easily equal to or surpassing well-regarded standalone CD players of its list price. Its Blu-ray is unsurpassed and its Redbook sound via 2ch analog out is better than the NAD M55 and M5 ... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Gopher,I don't recall which First Watt amp you have, but keep in mind that the Abby is an 8 ohm nominal impedance speaker, whereas Soul Superfly is 16 ohms. So you're -3db on power into the higher impedance at a given volume setting (though up 6db... | |
| McIntosh MC252: What speakers to pair with? The McIntosh autoformer amps are widely compatible with many loudspeakers but special synergy seems to be common with relatively simple speaker configurations, including "voiced" speakers. The most startling combinations have been when Mcintosh au... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly I think the prior gloss charges proved insufficiently profitable to be sustainable for Zu, because meeting their standards skyrocketed the labor input to production. People are more demanding about finish quality of flat surfaces in their homes, u... | |
| Denon 103r ???? >>No, even a well set-up 103R is soft on top.<<I'm sorry, it's not. But a well-set-up 130R won't sound strident. Maybe you like strident.>>A conical stylus can only do so much. It simply doesn't fit the groove too well.<<Ha... | |
| Phono preamp selection George Wright passed away last year. There is no more new Wright Sound product. But you can find the Wpp100C and Wpp200C on the used market, here, from time to time.You're right to see subsonic woofer excursion as a problem worth avoiding. Best to... | |
| Phono preamp selection >> I'm still waiting for my Classic and the Delos so I don't know if the system will need a rumble filter.<<Yikes...you'd put a KAB active filter in a moving coil signal chain?>>the Delos apparently needs less then 60dB of gain&l... | |
| What MC for $1,000-$2,000? >> I have no beef with DENON, but the AC-2 is still WAY better sounding even in my tone arm.<<Aboslutely. The AC-2 is at least a serviceable dynamic match to your SME III. The 103R is not.>>The DENON is quiet (conical stylus trac... | |
| garrard 401 the definitive true If you give up your Garrard 401, my guess is you'll find unsatisfying the comparative lack of drive in the other turntables you mentioned. There are two meaningful upgrades you can make if you're inclined to make improvements: 1/ Abandon the grani... | |
| Denon 103r ???? >>Well, I never could get the 103R to get to really good on my Quatros.<<Your speakers are irrelevant here. Your tonearm/cartridge match was the problem.>>I think that the....low low compliance just won't let it happen on my set-... | |
| Looking for the Honda S2000 of turntables What are the qualities of a Honda S2000? It's a balanced sports car leveraging mainstream technologies, well-machined and built for relative simplicity and reliability. No aspect of its operation is intimidating so it can be driven by anyone but i... | |
| Phono preamp selection >>213cobra, do you have the Jasmine?<<I do own the Jasmine. It is switchable for 55db or 70db gain. Who cares what Musical Surroundings says? They sell a lower-gain unit. Sure, if you design a circuit to deliver more gain using inferio... |