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| Cartridge suggestions for Rega P9 In agreement with Marakanetz, Rega carts always left me a little cold. One cart that works great on Rega arms AND Naim pre-amps is the Goldring Excel (retail $1200) if you can find one (discontinued?). Especially for Jazz, Classical, Folk, intimat... | |
| My new dedicated room sound like crap,please help. The book Tom Nice talks about sounds useful. Also his comment about resonant modes reminds me of this Cardas Sweep LP I have. Certain tracks on the LP will pump out pure sine waves at fixed frequencies. By moving your head around the room while pl... | |
| My new dedicated room sound like crap,please help. I agree with Nrchy's comments, this one might be baffling (oops!- bad pun!). Not only do room acoustics come into play, but the resonant frequencies of the materials the components are sitting on will affect performance. Sometimes with a smaller r... | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? Haoleb,I've got the part number on those lampswitches. They are Brass Bracket Knob #8-32F made by Midwest Fastener Corporation (upc is 73828764594-1). hope you can find them. | |
| homeade equipment racks?? opinions? Thanks much for the input... the IKEA sounds like a no-brainer given the low cost, and I'll definitely report the results once I've got it assembled- JC | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? For the speakers, if you have them on a flat, hard surface you might be able to copy this great tweak I did using brass lampswitches from a hardware store made by Midwest Fastener Corporation. Thy're only about 80 cents each and work great if you ... | |
| best 100- 200 used interconnect I sampled some Nordost rca's and I too found them a little "brittle" sounding. Don't think the kimber would be appropriate in your system (sampled a Kimber in the same session as the Nordost). Favorite cables in my system are: IXOS, Bradley(no lon... | |
| What speakers for an old Nakamichi receiver I've been using a Nak stasis TA-3A for a couple years now and feel its pretty good in just about every way (no obvious sonic flaws). Speakers are Celestion 3 which sound good but I really got the Celestion 3's back when I was using a Creek 4140 s2... | |
| Is bass-expander really good for stereo system? Wow. I just can't believe you are not getting deep bass with the equipment listed above. A tube player, NAD is if anything a bit TOO heavy in the bass, high end cables and a three way speaker? Maybe Bob's got a good idea with the power issue.Only ... | |
| A good cartridge between 300.00 and 400.00 I had the first issue of the scottish Akito a few years back and mounted a fresh Erocia low output MC on it and it sounded pretty amazing, especialy for symphonic music. Setup at the time was an cirkus'd LP12 on a Sound Organization floor stand. H... | |
| Cartridge for Rega Planar 3 This may sound wacky but someone I know has a Audio Technica 120e (which can be gotten for $54 online thru garage-a-records) with his Rega3 and it sounds phenomenal. Most Audio Technica's cartridges sound awful on the rega but this one works well.... | |
| The best CD Player for the money All the players mentioned are great and its much easier to get good digital sound now than 10 - 15 yrs ago. I especialy endorse the above opinions of the Musical Fidelity A3, Arcam fmj or alpha nine for straight-up engrossing musicality. I also he... |