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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Stan Getz - Quartets | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Jack White - Entering Heaven Alive, Qobuz. I'm about halfway through and am really enjoying this. A little more mellow, a little more musical than a lot of his work. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Deftones - White Pony | |
| On or Off You have an on/off switch? Wow! My XP-15 phono stage doesn't. The only way to turn it off is to unplug it. I'm guessing it's meant to be left on. | |
| What is a good turntable preamp under $500? I would upgrade from a Pioneer receiver or save up for better speakers perhaps before spending money on a phono stage, but if that's where you want to put your money the Parks Puffin would be my recommendation at your stated budget. | |
| Cartridges, Vinyl, Stylus, Turntable Why on God's green earth would you need a turntable in a secondary system? I have a secondary system that I have been using to play grade all my records and get them entered into the Discogs database. It's no slouch. The analog chain consists... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Stan Getz - The Chick Corea / Bill Evans Sessions | |
| How can I add MQA decoding with my current setup? I found the Mytek Liberty to be very analytical. It didn't last in my system very long. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Bill Evans - Inner Spirit. From the last proper RSD drop. | |
| Adding a sub. - can i start with one? I’ve been using a sub for the past 15 years or so and never really got a satisfactory result blending it to the main system. What sub? What controls did it have? I've heard this idea that only Rel subs can be easily "integrated" into a 2 cha... | |
| Adding a sub. - can i start with one? You can absolutely use one sub and have an improvement in sound, however... "I feel I am missing some oomph and I find I am turning up the volume a lot." Maybe you should be looking at other parts of your system also. What kind of speakers, how... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Stan Getz / Eddie Sauter – Focus | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Earl's Closet: The Lost Archive of Earl McGrath 1970-1980 - Various Artists, Qobuz | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Genesis - Three Sides Live | |
| How can I add MQA decoding with my current setup? You need hardware to do a full unfold. Roon on its own doesn't get you there. Bluesound will do a full unfold through its analog outputs. As others said, consider ditching Tidal and go with Qobuz. No special hardware needed. Then you can add an e... |