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| best phono stage to mate with a London Decca Super Gold cart? I got my VTPH-1mm directly from Keith. He had taken in a -1mc in trade on a VTPH-2, and offered to convert it to a -1mm for me. I told Keith I was using it with a London cartridge, and wanted as little gain and as much overhead as the amp was capa... | |
| "Vintage" high end gear vs new and upgrade path? Speaking of Maggies, the Tympani line of Magneplanars is a special case. The speaker had become too expensive to manufacture to allow Magnepan to continue offering it without raising the speakers retail price above either A: what they wanted to (t... | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? Ah yes swampwater, the dying art of subtly and taste. It's what separates the men from the boys. | |
| best phono stage to mate with a London Decca Super Gold cart? Yeah John, the K & K looks very interesting (as does the budget TRON). ARJ, the input resistance is easily changed with the installation of a 15k to 22k resistor on the inside of the phono amp, on the input jacks. | |
| Best Rock Drummers I see that many (though not all) Audiogon members judge drummers by the same yardstick the general public does: technical "chops". There are other considerations, ya know.In the Big Band era, one drummer was chosen by band leaders above all others... | |
| Ramones mixed with BW 801 at Abbey Road.. Back to Mono! That seems very appropriate for The Ramones. I'm gettin 'it! I like their second, third, and fourth albums even more (Marky is a much more "muscular" drummer than is Tommy), but the first is great too. | |
| Magnepan 20.7 Larry, what do you consider near field distance? I listen at 8' from speakers usually, anything closer being what I consider near field. But big panels like Maggies make the same distance seem closer than do smaller speakers. | |
| Audio and the acoustic therapy of spaces Love it Tom! | |
| When will there be decent classical music recordings? The difficulty in recording and reproducing large orchestras is why old-timers like J. Gordon Holt considered reproducing such recordings the ultimate challenge and test of a music system's capabilities. For the exact reason Al just explained, get... | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? Excellent swampwater! Speaking of Pat McLaughlin, he is himself a fine songwriter, singer, and guitarist, with some great recordings worth seeking out. | |
| best phono stage to mate with a London Decca Super Gold cart? UK reviewer Ken Kessler of Hi-Fi News is a longtime Decca devotee, and has praised Glenn Croft many times, including his phono designs for use with Deccas/Londons. And Croft, being intimately familiar with the cartridges, may have his own preferen... | |
| best phono stage to mate with a London Decca Super Gold cart? What the Decca/London's need is not much gain (40dB is plenty) and lots of headroom. Their 5mV output is way too hot for lots of phono stages. For solid state, the Liberty B2B-1 has both, John Atkinson finding it's overload margin about as high as... | |
| Magnepan 20.7 Irsky, since you have a large room and would like more bass slam, add a pair of the old Magneplanar Tympani T-IV or T-IVa bass panels to your MG20.7's. There's nothing like Tympani bass! | |
| Need Help From The Resident Experts The Modulus is well-known to have excessive gain, it's design dating back to the pre-CD era. Most modern pre-amps provide around 12dB. There are attenuators available for inserting between pre and power, or resistors can be installed on the inputs... | |
| Herron VTPH-2 12ax7 Recommendations? Thanks ochremoon. In the 80's I had the Frank Van Alstine Super Pas in which he used 5751's (Sylvania, if memory serves) instead of 12AX7's, for their linearity and low noise said Frank. I had Keith send my VTPH-1mm with two 12AX7's and two 12AT7'... |