audioquest4life
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| Soundsmith Progression: MIMC Star > Sussurro Mk II @billstevenson“ Motivated like the rest of you by the great promotional pricing, I went whole hog and bought a Hyperion MkII. Phono Stage is a Conrad Johnson TEA1series3. The high gain stage has a fixed loading of 430 ohms. Right now it is moun... | |
| I give up on new vinyl Yep, some, or a lot of new pressings are a crap shoot. Was playing Sade Promise LP I bought in the PX in the 80’s, and sounds wonderful. Wife asked if it was an audiophile pressing, said nope, only a $6.95 PX special back then. She was shocked. I ... | |
| Soundproofing In my 647 square foot basement dedicated room on concrete slab, and concrete walls on threes sides, which is both; a listening room and home theater I did the following:1. Joists (14” below floorboards) Spray foam 6 inches of high density 2. Roxul... | |
| Soundsmith Progression: MIMC Star > Sussurro Mk II @slaw concur with you on all points. Going to dig out my Pink Floyd and give it a spin now. We are definitely getting something that literally has changed my perspective of listening. This is my new benchmark...,and I don’t think I am being too op... | |
| Soundsmith Progression: MIMC Star > Sussurro Mk II @tonyptony Great and good luck Good luck installing. Listening to Sade Promise LP and it’s quite fantastic with this cartridge. Again, voicing is so uncanny accurate and instrumentals so lifelike as well. The first side with Sweetest Taboo is so ... | |
| Soundsmith Progression: MIMC Star > Sussurro Mk II @tonyptony,Sure. Well, if you like the LPS, the MKII is an LPS turbocharged or taking all of those excellent qualities we like from the LPS and amplifying them to at last 3-5 times better. That’s just direct LPS traits comparison. Further, the way... | |
| MC suggestions How about Soundsmith Sussaro MK2, last generation on sale at various web outlets. It’s definitely a keeper for me having had several Benz LPS in rotation for a while. It has all of the superlatives you described that you wanted. | |
| Marvin Gaye "What's Goin' On" MFSL UDOS 45rpm Still waiting....ordered mine late October. Happy listening. | |
| Soundsmith Progression: MIMC Star > Sussurro Mk II The LPS has been my go to cartridge for years....I was saving for a Koetsu Onyx, but, might not have to anymore😀Sure digging the sound from this Soundsmith. | |
| Soundsmith Progression: MIMC Star > Sussurro Mk II Not quite broken in, at 30 hours, but starting to get a taste of the sound, and it’s sweet. When new, I tried the recommended 470 ohms, then 1000, and up from there all the way to 47k....then back 470, this on an Aesthetix IO Signature tube phono ... | |
| Beautiful Vicoustic's flagship Wavewood panels for room tretment. Anyone? Wow, been away for a minute and missed some great discussions about something that really interests me. @chakster I like the Vicoustic products and when I initially purchased them, they were at the forefront of combined bass and diffuser products.... | |
| PS Audio P5 - leave on or power off when done listening? I leave it on all of the time. It’s installed on my AV rack and only is used when I watch movies, otherwise, it’s sitting idle. Been like that for a year now. | |
| Do you ever do this before you listen? Or you can take a dose of cough syrup with guaifenesin, which seems to clear all of my sinuses, or doing simple stretches, the preferred method, by doing these two things: 1., stand straight with your back against a wall, turn head slowly left and... | |
| Stereo Speakers behind a perforated screen- How much loss in sound? I agree that there is some loss of fidelity with using acoustic transparent screen, therefore, not ideal for critical two channel listening. I have two separate setups, home theater with the aforementioned acoustic transparent screen and B&W 8... | |
| What separate tube phono stage do you use ? Aesthetix IO Signature with combination of NOS and modern tubes. Sounds great to me, and absolute bliss every time I play records. Tubes are the only things I have replaced over the 13-14 years of ownership. Experimented with ASR battery phono in ... |