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| help me build a cheap second system Response? Don't go with TT. Is too difficult. Snap, crackle,pop? adjusting pick-up, tracking force, fighting dust, cleaning vinyl? You don't want to go there. | |
| Buying equipment Curious. How much do you ant to spend? | |
| Impact on sound from moving and bending cables I can't comment on the cable, but I say this every winter: get a humidifier. I guarrantee your SQ will improve and it's good for everything else including people. Humidity at 43% traps viruses and helps prevent illness. But nobody ever listens to ... | |
| Thoughts on the Signal Path Cool!!!! | |
| Thoughts on the Signal Path You don't have to answer that, Mapman. I'll call it alzheimers. So then it's a tie between synthesis and shortest possible signal path. I could go for that. | |
| SACD & other Formats I have older cds the SQ of which is quite pleasant. I found that I needed a heavy solid transport and high quality digital cable. These two components are essential for good cd SQ with older and newer recordings. I'm talking HEAVY. | |
| Thoughts on the Signal Path You lost me. Example please? | |
| Thoughts on the Signal Path The longer the signal path, the greater the capacitance, yes? | |
| Thoughts on the Signal Path Forgot to include that the pre in the hk990 integrated is active. Agree. I don't think I'd be ultimately happy with a passive line stage and that if you use one you have to know what you're doing which includes using an amp with the right sensitiv... | |
| Thoughts on the Signal Path I'm one of those who never found the ideal pre/amp combo. I was never happy. My Morrison ELAD which is considered by many critics to be as good as any preamp available and which is pure bare bones, dual mono, separate power supply, low gain as you... | |
| Classical music comps I second Vegasears. Erich Kunzel on Telarc is sizzling. | |
| Classical music comps There are always the Telarc samplers on CD. You don't specify the source. You might actually like some of the more popular classics like Rhapsody in Blue or Greig's Concerto in A minor. I do even though I'm heavy on the rock. Then there are Don Do... | |
| Your favorite LP nobody has ever heard of Spaces by Herb Pilhofer recorded by Sound 80 Studio in Minneapolis. It's like jumping in a clean, clear lake. It never made it to CD. | |
| High quality CD recordings Heads Up, Telarc's jazz label is good. | |
| Comparing Audioquest cable to Morrow Touche' (Is that how you sspeel it?) |