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| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. Our Opinion on Component SignificanceComponentPerformance Significance:23%Turntable17%Tonearm5%Cartridge25%Phono Stage15%Amplifiers15%SpeakersSpending only 15% of your budget on speakers is almost certainly going to set you up for disappointment! ... | |
| If you had to start all over again in this day and age Just put together a $10k system from scratch, so I guess I’ll chime in. VPI Prime, Hana SL cart, Bob’s Devices SKY20 Integrated VPI SUT, Don Sachs tube MM phonostage, Musical Fidelity M2Si integrated amp, Audioquest Rocket 11 speaker cable, Tannoy... | |
| “Invest” in Tekton? I would implore you to factor into your budget some proper acoustic treatment to neutralize the small space before you do anything. Highly recommend GIK panels given their price point and quality. Put bass traps in all four corners and hang some p... | |
| Please Critique my Setup and Recommend Upgrade(s) Update: Received the Devore 9's late last week and finally got to listen to them at length tonight. They are definitely far more detailed and brighter sounding than my ELAC Uni-Fi B5s. Listening to the new Wilco record it was quite noticeable h... | |
| Speaker recommendation for married couple Did she listen to the speakers in a dealer's showroom or at your house? 6' ceilings are extremely low, so you should probably get some panels mounted overhead first and foremost to try and 'disappear' the ceiling. No doubt you are getting a lot ... | |
| Please Critique my Setup and Recommend Upgrade(s) Latest update(s)...again, thanks for all your collective wisdom and advice; much appreciated!1. I bought a pair of used Devore Gibbon 9's today that should be here later this week. Admittedly, I'm having a little buyer's remorse simply because I ... | |
| Please Critique my Setup and Recommend Upgrade(s) A lot of recs for the Tekton so far. Is this a new speaker company / design? The only reviews I can find are kind of obscure home theater sites. | |
| Please Critique my Setup and Recommend Upgrade(s) Also, just to be clear, the room is actually about 13' wide by at least 40' long. My designated listening area of the space is 13x13. | |
| Please Critique my Setup and Recommend Upgrade(s) Thanks again guys, really appreciate the advice!!!As for the Rega Brio, I agree that it is a limiter at 50wpc for many speakers, but is it fair to say that upgrading to more efficient speakers would be as helpful as buying a more powerful amp, if ... | |
| Please Critique my Setup and Recommend Upgrade(s) I tried the Rogue Sphinx hybrid at my dealer but the Rega Brio was better with the ELACs. He has a Cronus Magnum that I can try, but he told me the phono stage wasn't all that great. Not sure if he meant in comparison to the Brio or just in genera... | |
| Please Critique my Setup and Recommend Upgrade(s) Hey guys, can’t thank you enough for all of the sage advice. Much appreciated! I experimented with a few things today and am definitely getting a better sound. I swapped out the generic loaner phone connect for what appears to be a much better, al... | |
| Please Critique my Setup and Recommend Upgrade(s) Hi Greg, I agree about the Rega being somewhat underpowered for the inefficiency of the ELACs. Given the choice, would you upgrade the speakers to something better and more efficient or keep the ELACs and upgrade to a more powerful amp? I'm leanin... | |
| Please Critique my Setup and Recommend Upgrade(s) aimed the speakers too low or aimed for too low in my speaker choice? | |
| Phono cable recommendations - high performance good value cable I'm going to try a different interconnect, but will be surprised if that solves the issue. I've tried everything I can think of with respect to grounding. I've unplugged everything but the VPI and Rega Brio amp, tried a different outlet, tried byp... | |
| Phono cable recommendations - high performance good value cable I'm in the same boat, looking for a great bang for the buck phono cable. The cheap one I got with my VPI Scout Prime is picking up all sorts of interference resulting in a bad hum at higher volumes. I have a $100 Pro-ject Connect-It cable on order... |