audiofeil
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| Any Phono Stage that can load 100k, for $300 used? Virtually all moving magnet cartridge and phono stage manufacturers recommend loading at 47K ohms. I suspect there's a good reason for that.I'd tend to ignore the occasional abberation you might read from time to time. | |
| Led Zeppelin IV vinyl Houses of the Holy is the best sounding of the original pressings.Can't speak to any of the reissues. | |
| Do Usher spkrs sound great with Rock music? I'd listen to them very closely with your amplifier or something very similar before taking the plunge. | |
| Tube smell? Maybe the preamp was built in Cuba. | |
| Where do I go from here ? You have a ton of room remaining to improve your phono preamplifier.Spending a couple grand on a new table/tonearm and standing pat on the phono stage doesn't make much sense IMO. | |
| Rega P2, Thorens TD-180 or Music Hall MMF-5.1? Ekobesky says>>The RB30 arm is phenomenal<<Well, if in fact you meant the RB300, you're quite incorrect.The RB300 is a solid, serviceable, and reasonably high value tonearm but hardly phenomenal.Thanks. | |
| White Album, when's your last listen? "Julia" "Everybody's Got Something to Hide.........." | |
| Replace my Berning ZH-270? Just a brief correction to the previous post regarding silver wire.Not all silver is hard or etchy just as not all copper is soft and rounded.The actual determinants of cable "tone" are far more a factor of conductor purity, conductor geometry, an... | |
| All good. Which Best? Usher, Paradigm, Joseph? The Joseph Audio RM7 MK2 are the best to my ears. The 718 are somewhat etchy IMO so I think your Class D amp is not the best match. | |
| DRT XV1s Vs Orpheus Vs Shelter Harmony Vs 47 Labs >>The Orpheus and the Aritight PC1 are my favorite kings of the hill.>>Ditto. I'd add the Dynavector XV-1s as the third.In that order.I've heard all of them along with a couple cartridges mentioned in this thread using 5 tonearms/4 tab... | |
| Ideas on the Usher AC-20? Correction:The "For Sale" ads not "Wanted" ads.Sorry. | |
| Ideas on the Usher AC-20? Never buy any component, especially speakers, simply because the price is "good". The wanted ads on Audiogon are replete with examples of that mistake. The best price in the world is irrelevant if you don't like the sound. Speakers are very person... | |
| Is the McIntosh MR67 Modded top notch? I own both the 71 and 77; have heard the 67 and 78 at length.In stock form, the 71 is simply the best tuner Mac made. The 78 is more sensitive but the 71 is more pure, natural, and sweet sounding. I have no experience with modded Macs.The 67/77 ca... | |
| DRT XV1s Vs Orpheus Vs Shelter Harmony Vs 47 Labs For the record, Transfiguration Orpheus' output is 0.48mV not 0.68mV.Dealer disclaimer | |
| White Album, when's your last listen? Slight wrinkle on the original post. What is your favorite and least favorite side?Favorite- side 3Least- side 4 |