bdp24
Responses from bdp24
| Helius tonearm users, what have you upgraded to? If anyone is selling an Omega, I'm looking for one. | |
| Which phono preamps among these three? There is an Allnic 1201 listed right now for $2200. I listened to the Liberty B2B at T.H.E. Show last weekend, and it sounds great and is really well built. | |
| Any Herron VTPH-2 Phono Stage Owners out there? I didn't want to have to pay for the MC section of a VTPH-2 (I'm a "committed" Decca/London user; some people think "we" should be committed!), so I contacted Keith. He told me he had a PH-1mc trade-in that he could convert into a custom PH-1mm, a... | |
| Looking for really fine cables at really low price At T.H.E. Irvine Show this past weekend, the cable panel members (Kimber/Cardas/Shunyata/K-S) recommended against tinning speaker wire ends, suggesting instead bare wire. I don't remember the reason why, but Ray was pretty adamant about it. | |
| Sound Lab vs Magnepan 20.7 Yep, the mating of an ESL panel and a cone woofer is definitely the Achilles heal of hybrids. Sanders uses a transmission line loading of the woofer, which is a good sign. I didn't hear a problem in the transition area, but show conditions don't a... | |
| Sound Lab vs Magnepan 20.7 Based on what I heard this past weekend at T.H.E. Show in Irvine, CA, there I another speaker you might want to consider. I don't know the model name or number, but it's the $20,000 Sanders ESL. You get two panels with a sub in each (175Hz x/o fre... | |
| Bob Weir documentary on Netflix Seriously, Mateored? Maybe you have to be a musician to fully appreciate The Band. I've seen a lot of them starting with The Beach Boys (you laugh? They were great live!), Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who, Hendrix, Cream, Jeff Beck, Doors, up through c... | |
| How important is a good rack? If turntable isolation is your priority, and you have a spare coupla-three grand, the Minus K isolation platform looks like the one to have. | |
| Bob Weir documentary on Netflix The Muscle Shoals doc IS great, and also worth seeing is the one on Levon Helm (of The Band, for you youngsters), "Not In It For My Health". | |
| Which MM Cartridge for under a grand It's not a moving magnet, but a moving iron is also a high output cartridge. In the new Stereophile Herb Reichert reviews the Soundsmith Carmen, which he likes a lot. | |
| Is Vinyl Worth It I never got used to CD's having only "one side". LP's were programmed as two separate sides, the songs and their relationship to the other songs on their one side being a complete experience unto itself. When older albums are put on CD with the tw... | |
| Cheap/free tweak of the Magneplanar 1.7s, etc. Let me add that the mass of the sand just stabilizes the panels, keeps them from swaying fore and aft. When I had stacked Quads, I put spikes on the tops of the stands I had made for them as well as the bottoms, and secured the spikes to the ceili... | |
| Cheap/free tweak of the Magneplanar 1.7s, etc. Yeah Johnny, four bags, one for the front and one for the rear of each speaker leg. That would take care of one speaker, so eight bags for a pair. You could make each bag 25 lbs, even. I used material that looked like felt on one side and velvet o... | |
| CD quality versus SA-CD ?is it worth it? If you can come up with another $200, there is an Esoteric DV-50s, a really good older CD/SACD/DVD player, on Audiogon right now for $1200. | |
| Cheap/free tweak of the Magneplanar 1.7s, etc. You can buy a 100 lb. bag of silica sand for under $10 at building supply yards. Buy two bags, put half of each in homemade cloth bags, and put a bag on each of the 1.7's legs, front and rear. Four 50 lb. bags for under $20, ya can't beat it. The ... |