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| Tube pre w/ HT bypass? What's your budget? I have a Modwright LS 100 and while I've changed many components since I've owned it, I've had zero thoughts about replacing it. It's more of a detailed and neutral sound than "warm and smooth". If that's what you're looking... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Chick Corea - Light as a Feather 🪶, WLP | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? James, I really like it so far. I just started the second disc. I also have a white label promo of light as a feather in the on-deck bin. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Chick Corea - My Spanish Heart. I went out of town for a long weekend with my girlfriend and we were at a antique store that had some records. They had a couple of bins in the main area of the store where most of the records were overpriced and no... | |
| Need DAC Ideas +1 For the Aqua La Voce S3. I bought a used one recently for $2500. Very detailed and natural sounding. | |
| SoundSmith cartridges how good? In the future it would be great if we could keep the negative comments to ourselves until we know for sure it is a pattern.That's a lovely sentiment, but it makes no sense (if no one posts until there's a "pattern", how could a pattern develop?) a... | |
| Music format for bringing to audition/demo I never take anything. Every place I go has every song I would want to hear. | |
| MOFI not shipping LPs according to purchase number. Music Direct sells them. MOFI sells them. Maybe both come from the same place, maybe they don't. Acoustic Sounds sells them and I'm pretty sure other retailers do also. What kind of outfit can't control every retailer selling their merchandise so ... | |
| Headphones I have about a dozen headphones, including top of the line cans like LCD-4. The Sennheiser HD-6XX are the ones I probably use the most. They are not the "best" in any way, except maybe comfort (especially with upgraded pads). What I like about the... | |
| amazing video about listening, in a very special heartfelt way. I haven't watched the video yet, but in my youth there were some deaf guys that lived nearby and would come over and party. They loved music! And knew how to party! | |
| Canton Reference ? any comment? I have the Canton Reference 9.2 DC. Very nice speakers for the money and easy on the eyes. A surprising amount of bass for their size. I would call them neutral, maybe even a little on the warm side, but that was with class D amplification. What i... | |
| SoundSmith cartridges how good? I have the Aida II. I would characterize it as very quiet, neutral, with great channel separation, and excellent imaging. I also own a Kiseki Blue NS, Van Den Hul MC Two Special, Hana SL, Zu Denon DL-103, and a couple of nice MM carts, the Clearau... | |
| Moving up the Harbeth line I had my SHL5s about 2 feet from the wall. They definitely sound better when pulled further out into the room, but they sounded great there. | |
| Moving up the Harbeth line If you're sitting that close to the speakers, they should be great. As others have mentioned, consider more power, subs, and/or room treatments. I have both SHL5 and P3ESR. The SHL5 are not too big for that room. My friend has 40.2s in a smaller s... | |
| Any good tube headphones and headphone amps for vinyl playback? Your phono stage has nothing to do with amplifying your headphones. Don't underestimate the importance of the headphone amp. An affordable set of headphones like Focal Elex or even $200 Sennheiser HD6XX with a good amp can sound a lot better than ... |