avanti1960
Responses from avanti1960
| Is Spiking Necesarry? mine sound noticeably better when I push the spikes through the carpet to make contact with my basement's concrete floor. i do this with the subwoofer too. pain to move around but the sound is better.on the other hand i was in the vinnie rossie ... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... mine was sounding a little dull compared to other cartridges so I raised the tonearm tail by 2mm from absolute level.amazing what a difference it made in clarity, detail and dynamics. the ART9 is very sensitive to VTA so if you are not happy with... | |
| Tube Phono with Tube Integrated Amp? i prefer a good quality solid state phono preamp with my tube integrated amp. it sounds spectacular and also closer to my digital sources that way. | |
| I would like to get into Turntables but ......... HELP! budget including cartridge? what is your amplifier? | |
| 8K for a one-time listen? At least the double LPs are not twice as much as the $5500 single LP (Bill Evans). they could theoretically ask $11,000 for the 4-lacquer sets. So in theory we would save $3,600! Quite a deal! | |
| High mass vs Low Mass Turntables - Sound difference? @lewm a smaller motor pulley driving a larger pulley (platter vs. sub platter) has many engineering advantages as can be computed in simple belt pulley - pulley drive system configurations. i performed some engineering calculations simulating a 1... | |
| 8K for a one-time listen? it would be a bummer if the power went out while playing it. | |
| Next step up from the Dynavector 20x2 for more bass? don't blame it on the cartridge- I had a DV20X2L on a VPI table and there was bass o'plenty- perhaps too much bass. if you have a rega table you need to add shims to the tonearm to set the VTA properly- the rega cartridges are ~ 4mm shorter than ... | |
| Looking for a Phono pre around 1K you need an outboard power supply and large transformer to approach the sound of the "big boys" - e.g. paraasound JC3, manley chinook, lehmann decade (take a look under their "hoods"). you can get there with slightly above $1K with the lehmann bl... | |
| FM alive and well here...curious question I use my tuner on occasion and actually have the antenna in the attic- I have not gotten around to running the cable but it's something I had planned to do. Basically one good FM station in the Chicago area that I like. But I recently purchased ... | |
| High mass vs Low Mass Turntables - Sound difference? personally my no. 1 design criteria for selecting a (belt drive) turntable is that the drive system uses the outer rim of the platter as the driven pulley. i will not purchase a turntable with a sub-platter as the driven pulley. there are too ma... | |
| Primaluna dialogue premium HP tube rolling suggestions to reduce brightness If you are sure about which impedance terminals sound the best you can try some very inexpensive new stock JJ tubes in the 12AU7 spots. The JJs come stock on the Cronus Magnum and are a dark sounding tube but still capable of great sound. This w... | |
| Sealed subwoofer for ESL-63 according to stereophile's measurements for your speakers drop like a rock at 80Hz which makes them excellent candidates for subwoofer integration. the key ingredients for perfect sub integration are as follows-1) subwoofer with polarity invert s... | |
| Sub-woofer connection question In my experience the high level inputs sound better because it integrates better with your main speakers. I have the JL Audio D110 subwoofer and it clearly sounds better using the high level connections- just connect the cables at your amplifier i... | |
| Anyone using a Mytek Brooklyn or Manhattan (I or II) DAC as a preamplifier? I would have bought one of these if it could connect to an integrated amp preamp input. I don't understand why more quality DACs don't allow the option of connection to a preamp or integrated amp. |