big_greg
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| New cartridge $500 range Your phono stage supports MC cartridges. Give a Denon DL-301 MKII a try. One of the best values out there and within your budget. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I've bought a lot of stuff from Plaid Room's online store also. | |
| Bookshelf speakers for small room You should have asked the dealer to turn down the Harbeths because they sound great at low volumes too. I've tried a bunch of different speakers in my computer system in a small room. I don't think I'll ever replace them. And I replace a lot of... | |
| NOS Tubes - Ecstasy or Agony I think NOS tubes are an area where who you're dealing with matters more than anything. My experience has been that tubes matter a lot more in a preamp than an amp. I've had tubes fail in my amps, but I've never experienced a sound quality issue... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? No offense taken, I was just having some fun too :) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Elvin Bishop - Live! Rasin' Hell. I never saw Elvin Bishop live, but this record makes me wish I would have. Sounds like a fun time and some great music. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @beach2mtn I stopped getting married a long time ago, so no wife to leave when I rock out! I do have a super cool girlfriend that loves to listen to music too, but she's a little less into J.P. than I am. She would have enjoyed Bob though. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Cars Candy-O, Nautilus half- speed master | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks | |
| For those that use an external DAC with node 2i @jjss49 If you want to talk about value, I just bought a second TEAC NT-505 for $1200. It sounds better than any of the Node 2/DAC combinations I tried. The cheapest of those combinations would have been the node 2 and the Mytek Liberty which comb... | |
| New at Qobuz - no HiRes sound Glad to hear you are enjoying the TEAC agosto! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Judas Priest - Priest in the East, Japan import. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @spiritofradio there was not a noticeable issue with ringing, but if you tap on the horns... I don't think the damping is going to hurt anything. | |
| For those that use an external DAC with node 2i @jjss49 the dac drives 80-90% of the nature of sqSo you agree that what comes before the DAC matters but are saying that a 10-20% difference in sound quality doesn't matter? |