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| Set-Up Advice for Vandersteen 1Cs If you have hardwood floors, you can skip the spikes and buy threaded felt-bottomed furniture glides at a hardware store. They're cheap, they save your floors, and the pitch on the threads is the same as for the Vandersteen spikes. I use them for ... | |
| Turntable on suspended floor - shelf or braces? For an easy fix, cram a few paperback books behind the rack or furniture the 'table sits on (as close to the top of the rack as possible) so that the wall will essentially brace the rack and keep it from moving too much as the floor bounces. The m... | |
| NAD D7050--anyone heard it? Tvfreak, can you compare the sound of the D7050 to that of a more conventional amp/CD player combo? I'm still considering the D7050, but I'm not sure if it'll be a step up in sound from my NAD C372/Rotel RCD-1072 or just a space-saving step to the... | |
| Worth fixing a Dual CS 455 / Thorens TD 190??? A happy ending--I've trashed the Dual but found that the Ortofon OM20 it came with sounded better (better tracking, smoother treble) on my Rotel than the Ortofon Blue I'd just bought. I've sold the Blue and bought a new stylus for the OM20: net lo... | |
| Worth fixing a Dual CS 455 / Thorens TD 190??? Aw, man! So I should pull off the $180 cartridge to keep for a backup and trash the TT? Too bad I just bought an Ortofon Blue for my Rotel--if I'd waited a week I could've just used the OM20!Any other experiences with this 'table? | |
| Worth fixing a Dual CS 455 / Thorens TD 190??? One more try here--I got the correct power supply for this TT, and it still runs crazy fast, and changing from 33 to 45 doesn't alter the speed. I think that by hooking it up to AC I fried the speed control and/or motor. Does anyone have a ballpar... | |
| Worth fixing a Dual CS 455 / Thorens TD 190??? Ordered the correct DC power supply from Amazon yesterday. Still wondering if I fried the speed control by accidentally hooking it up to AC. If it doesn't work with the new power supply, I'm guessing I'll need to have a tech fix it. Anyone with a ... | |
| Tweeter type and brightness A speaker's frequency response in the presence range can contribute to brightness and fatigue. Two soft-dome speakers that I've owned (and that are widely referred to as warm) I found very fatiguing in the treble and soon sold: the Spendor S3/5 (c... | |
| KEF LS50 Need Help One more vote to ditch the Tributaries. I used those ICs and speaker cables for many years (still have them) and found the ICs very bright and grainy and the speaker cables grainy in the treble and a bit loose and ill-defined in the bass. I now us... | |
| A question about preamplifiers and headphones Congrats on the purchase! Glad to hear you're enjoying the Senns. It sounds like you're a man doing well. | |
| A question about preamplifiers and headphones I have a very similar setup with the NAD C372 integrated and Sennheiser HD580s. The impedance mismatch is even worse with the integrated (220 ohm output impedance, if I'm remembering right) to the 300 ohm impedance of my Senns. But the combination... | |
| warm sounding cartridge for rega arm Sumiko Pearl. With VTA set a little low, you'll get exactly the sound you describe, with excellent midrange resolution and solid tracking. With VTA set correctly the Pearl is warm-to-neutral--the treble roll-off is still there, but the mid-bass bu... | |
| LS50s and room size Thanks for the detailed response. The KEFs are on my must-hear list, so I'm looking forward to doing some comparison of my own. Enjoy the speakers! | |
| LS50s and room size You compared these to Vandersteens with an 8 inch woofer. Were these the 1C? As a KEF fan (though I haven't heard the LS50 yet) and current Vandersteen 1Ci owner (former 2CE Sig II owner)a I'm interested in the comparison if you could share some i... | |
| Ready to upgrade from the Jolida JD1501 I used to own the 1501RC, and I was going to suggest some tube rolling till you mentioned the reliability issues. Forget that idea! On the same subject, in the current "The Entry Level" in Stereophile, Stephen Meijas mentions some reliability issu... |