avanti1960
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| My Amp is good but probably the weak point Definitely not the JC5 with your Heresy speakers! High powered solid state amps are a definite miss match. If you like the Klipsch sound it can be made refined and dynamic with a robust tube integrated amplifier. The Rogue Audio Cronus Magn... | |
| Too Much Gain the Issue ? (preamp and amp) @mulveling Preamp tubes are optimized- all spots have early 50’s Sylvania 6SN7 GTA. Smooth as glass. Tried putting the EH, Ken-Rad and Raytheon in and no help. I am also experimenting with cables. I have tried everything. The sound is like a s... | |
| Too Much Gain the Issue ? (preamp and amp) @audphile1 not new, a few years old. | |
| Too Much Gain the Issue ? (preamp and amp) i am willing to try attenuators but are they any more effective than the front panel level controls? which are variable resistors, no? | |
| Too Much Gain the Issue ? (preamp and amp) thanks so far. couple things- not really a brigtness issue, more like slightly hissy treble. my pass xa25 sounds perfectly clean cary can adjust the gain but i am not willing to go down that road | |
| Too Much Gain the Issue ? (preamp and amp) @pmm Thanks, how does using attenuators work better than using the level controls on the front of the Cary? | |
| Liquid Stylus Cleaners I have always used liquid occasionally- e.g. every two weeks or so, using the Audio-Technica stylus fluid. Never had an issue with stylus / cantilever upwards of 1500 hours on cartridges. There are certain deposits that require the liquid to r... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) @larryi thanks for your report. sibilance is what i was concerned about and is something difficult to fix when there is such a size difference between drivers without filtering out key midrange frequencies. i like the big bass and high sensit... | |
| Sutherland LPS making sound thin? I added my LPS after owning the 20/20 for several months and noticed very little difference in sound- although i am sure if i put the wall warts back in it would be noticeable. | |
| What exactly is a speaker box sound? agreed. boxy sound is caused by cabinet resonance, some more some less. | |
| Sound is better when I stand up? The Ref angled baffle as others mentioned points the drivers upward. This is by design for phase and response. When standing your ears are more on axis and you hear more midrange and treble and less floor reflected bass. Not every speaker s... | |
| Best sounding CD player The MBL Cadenza is the best sounding player I have heard. Amazingly smooth, detailed, clear and dynamic. Second best is my Luxman D05, superb sounding. The Marantz players are good but still noticeably digital by comparison. | |
| speakers/ amps liking one another I do not see the smaller room being your biggest issue. You are coming from a Linear Tube Audio amp which are awesome (i think, not clear in your post) driving the highly sensitive dynamic Tektons going to the Bland sounding Focal towers. In... | |
| My Medium List of Amplifiers and my Personal Review of Each ! Update to the list. OUT- Dual Mono Benchmark AHB2 IN-Pass Labs XA 30.8 Reigning Champion- Pass Labs XA25 The Benchmarks sounded really good but I believe were a gain miss-match with my Cary Audio preamp. This resulted in lack of refinement a... | |
| What should be mandatory in every professional published review- at this point it is safe to say that most reviews are flawed and not an undeniable reference for purchasing anything. they are constrained from mentioning anything remotely detracting about the sound and in fact barely describe the sound characte... |