bigbucks5
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| Which amps with B&W 800D's... Pass Labs or Classe? Considered McIntosh? Have listened extensively to 800D's powered by MC501 monoblocks...a truly great combination. | |
| Verdier with or without the steel ball Cool stuff you made, Tuboo.I've got a friend with a complete machine shop. Maybe I can talk him into making a similar set of hardware for my Platine.On the other hand, taking the platter off to make adjustments isn't that difficult.Thanks for the ... | |
| HELP...Bubble Wrap Marks in PIANO BLACK Speakers?? Give the low heat hair drier a shot...just for a minute or so. It can't be baked on any worse than it is already. | |
| HELP...Bubble Wrap Marks in PIANO BLACK Speakers?? This may be of no relevance, but...My Verdier Platine TT is piano black, and when I had the armboard drilled, we used a paper towel wrapped around the armboard to protect it while we were using a vise and drill press.Soon as we removed the armboar... | |
| Need a list of TT with arms and motors seperate Is a magnetic bearing really vibration free (or silent)?===============================================Well, rumble is usually associated with bearing friction, so I think that a magnetic bearing has no rumble. | |
| How much does your system retail for? Why did you make me add this stuff up?!?!?!MSRP around $120K. This is NOT good! Thankfully I didn't pay anywhere near MSRP, but it is still lots of dough even at half price or so. | |
| Need a list of TT with arms and motors seperate So I guess the solution is to get a TT with little to no bearing noise? Which ones are they?================================Verdier Platine has no bearing noise since it doesn't have a conventional thrust bearing. A magnetic thrust bearing is silent. | |
| Upgrade order suggestion preamp vs speakers This has to be a no brainer, are you kidding me? ANYONE who remotely thinks that the preamp upgrade is in the same league with the speaker upgrade is smoking something. The Boulder preamp may be twice as good (heck 10 times as good) as the ARC, bu... | |
| Personal speaker evolution Advent (original large version)JBL L200 (I think that was the model #, or maybe L100?)Carver Amazing Silver(still have these and still pretty amazing)Dynaudio Confidence C4 (great speakers)Dynaudio Temptation (Wow!, describes these best)No more sp... | |
| Law of Diminishing Returns - CD/SACD Players Ok, so this is NOT a comprehensive comparison. But it may nevertheless be interesting to some. I was listening to all my CDs via 2 ganged Sony ES changers (CDP-M555ES) and I was pretty happy with the sound. The convenience of selecting any of up t... | |
| Law of Diminishing Returns - CD/SACD Players I'm sure this is heresy, but the difference in sound quality between my Sony CDP-M555ES (400 CD changer) and my megabuck Esoteric P70/D70 transport/DAC combo is virtually nil. So either my ears are waaaay bad, or the Sony is a damn good unit.99% o... | |
| Musical Heaven, NOT Audio or Speaker heaven … Yeah, baby!As Homer would say, "ummmmmh, T E M P T A T I O N S, aghhhh"I bought Deshapiro's speakers. He ain't getting them back, that's for sure! | |
| BAT VK-51 SE or McIntosh C200? Confused...Are you talking about the C2200 or the C200...quite different. | |
| 12" Tonearm What Have You Heard & Recommend? "DaVinci Audio 12" Grandezza Arm"Maybe, but in the USA it is hugely expensive...more than a Schroeder Reference, I think. | |
| 12" Tonearm What Have You Heard & Recommend? I have an SME 312 that I bought about a year ago (but haven't mounted/listened to it yet). It came off a JR Transrotor and was branded as such. It looks very well made and has a removable headshell, which I appreciate for ease of cartridge mountin... |