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| Which Preamp Would You Choose? Sonic Frontiers might be the worst tubed piece I have ever heard. Would strongly encourage you to look elsewhere. I believe that their amps were better than their preamps. I cant impart to you how much better is available than S.F. | |
| Turntable recommendations If you can find a used Merrill Williams REAL with the mid level Helius arm. Origin live arm also perhaps with a Kuzma table as another mentioned. Probably cant find a Kuzma 4 Point with table within your budget. | |
| Yet another turntable recommendation question Not a fan of detachable headshells for obvious reasons. Absolute no to inexpensive direct drive tables for even more obvious reasons. Probably a Rega with the best cartridge you can find within your budget. | |
| What is the appeal of the Denon 103 cartridges? I think that a major factor in the quality of this cartridge is that it is very consistent and repeatable. No variation in the manufacturing process means you know what to expect. This is not true of some of the very expensive cartridges. A very g... | |
| Daedalus Ulysses I have heard only at shows and wasnt impressed. | |
| Klipsch Heresy IV What I cant figure is why Klipsch would increase the cabinet size and add a port. Perhaps they put in a bigger woofer? No way the bass is as tight or as real and rear ports can be problematic. It would be nice to get Duke's opinion on these issue... | |
| Klipsch, introduces The Cornwall IV, and I think it will be a killer ! Well look to the strengths and weaknesses of different speaker designs in general as a start. Determine what characteristics are most important to you to help narrow the search. To me the only advantage of horns is efficiency. Efficiency can be si... | |
| Old Legendary tubes vs New Kids on the block Amperex/Siemens/Tele vs Psvane/TAD/Shugaung It is advisable to buy from sellers that give you specific test results with tester minimums also listed. | |
| Old Legendary tubes vs New Kids on the block Amperex/Siemens/Tele vs Psvane/TAD/Shugaung I dont understand what risk really exists from buying on ebay. If you pay by Paypal you can send the tubes back for any reason and the seller is more or less forced to accept the return even if they are not at fault. The secret is to say that the ... | |
| Help in putting together my system with used equipment on Audiogon and eBay. I have digital but I am really a analog guy. As the Klipsch fans on this forum already know, I do not like Klipsch speakers. However I also believe that if a person likes a speaker then this is the correct speaker for this listener. With this in m... | |
| Help in putting together my system with used equipment on Audiogon and eBay. I would not suggest any Klipsch speaker with solid state amps. They do much better with tubes. | |
| Klipsch Heresy IV Usually porting speakers, no matter what type, gives the illusion of more bass, but it never seems as tight or as "real". If you want the real story do some research on both types of speaker design. I think it was some Stereophile writer, probably... | |
| Help in putting together my system with used equipment on Audiogon and eBay. I would steer you away from Thiel or B&W. Try to consider speakers with soft dome tweeters that are not harsh in any fashion. Especially true if you stay with all but the most expensive sold state. Keep your preamp at least to try before going... | |
| Old Legendary tubes vs New Kids on the block Amperex/Siemens/Tele vs Psvane/TAD/Shugaung I have a Phi 200 also and I dont use any old stock tubes in this unit. NOS KT88s are stupidly expensive and I have found that rolling the driver tubes usually has more influence on the sound. However, Kevin of VAC swears that you need a matched qu... | |
| Old Legendary tubes vs New Kids on the block Amperex/Siemens/Tele vs Psvane/TAD/Shugaung Beware of anyone that claims there is any "holy grail" tube. Systems vary as does hearing and preference. Also be wary of those that have closed their minds to all things they consider "snake oil". Just sayin!To my ears and in my system old stock ... |