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| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? Perhaps Technics (orig Sony) claim of eliminating direct drive 'cogging' have finally turned the tide for good this time.Originally Panasonic's upscale brand. | |
| Active pre-amp for “difficult” music (fusion) The amp has balanced & un-balanced inputs. For Balanced, are you referring to the XLR pin assignments?Its more than that. If the amp supports the balanced standard, its input will ignore ground. If it does not, ground loops can result. That is... | |
| The imperfect amp: Pass or Ayre? It’s advertising BS by Ayre to say "no Feedback!" on a solid state amp.This statement is false. Although there are not many examples, it is possible if build a solid state amp that lacks any sort of feedback whatsoever. Both Pass and Ayre are two ... | |
| Active pre-amp for “difficult” music (fusion) Since that is a balanced input on your amp, you might check and see if the preamp you are considering supports the balanced line standard (AES48). If yes, the interconnect and input impedance of the amp will be no worries, if no, the interconnect ... | |
| what's a good fm tuner? Kenwood did a business of radio before and after doing hifi. They made some of the best FM tuners to come out of Japan. Working on their better stuff was a dream rather than a nightmare. They seemed really serious about advancing the art, quite un... | |
| Schiit setup troubleshooting Then that qualified as a dumb question :)How do you know the Freya is running? If it accepts single-ended inputs, then its easy to tell- you can simply connect an RCA cable to the input and touch the pin of the RCA at the other end. You should hea... | |
| Is dedicated PreAmp with Oppo 105 needed? I looked at both the sites & the price of their products. Don’t you think I’ll get more value for my money by getting a used VAC or CJ or ARC products then paying the same amount for a brand new product from them?@hitsofmisses You often ge... | |
| Schiit setup troubleshooting I know this might be a dumb question but are the tubes in the Freya lit up? | |
| Atma-sphere Updates Atmasphere you know very well the comments I am alluding to.The only time I can think of was when I saw photos of a product that was held together with hot melt glue internally and commented on it. Such a product when dropped in shipment or the li... | |
| Amps I Like ^^Yes. | |
| Is dedicated PreAmp with Oppo 105 needed? If you can do single-ended one preamp in your budget is made by Don Sachs. Another is made by Backert Labs | |
| Amps I Like Ayre amps provide a lush dark backdrop which I've heard in no other amplifier. I don't mean they are dark sounding (i.e. reduced treble) but that the sound seems to emanate from absolute nothingness and explode without boundaries. An effect I'v... | |
| Atma-sphere Updates Regardless of the general quality or sound quality of the Atmasphere products I would not touch the stuff because Atmasphere seems to feel it is necessary to denigrate perceived competitors on this forum in a manner which could easily be seen ... | |
| Active pre-amp for “difficult” music (fusion) I used to believe that too, but you should listen to the Metrum Acoustics Adagio or Jade, or the Empirical Audio® line of DACs, either of which control the volume by adjusting the reference voltage - no lost bits and VC outside the signal path... | |
| Atma-sphere Updates @zipost If its that noisy there may be something wrong with it. We've seen a few cases where the constant current source for a given gain stage was able to oscillate; if that happens it can inject noise into the circuit.So you might want to contac... |