billstevenson
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| Integrated that blew you away My main system: C-J: ART 88, ART Phono, 27A My summer home system: Marantz PM10 and matching SA10 I did compare them together before sending the Marantz stuff to it's new home. The Marantz PM10 has a Class D amp, separate power supplies for eac... | |
| B&W 802D1 - How can I tame the brightness? "I can tell by your post you've never had a pair of these speakers." LOL! As a matter of fact I do own a pair of these speakers. I know them intimately and know their strengths and weaknesses. With these, or for that matter any speakers, "fool... | |
| Where is the bass on my B&W 802d speakers? This in combination with your other post clearly points to a room problem. B&W 802 D diamonds measure flat down to about 33 Hz in an anechoic chamber. Your room/speaker interaction is the root cause of your problems. See my post to your fir... | |
| B&W 802D1 - How can I tame the brightness? Interesting that all of the advice so far has been to ditch your 802D diamonds. While that is always an option, I would call it a last resort approach. B&W sells more speakers, high end speakers, than any other company in the world. And the... | |
| Has anyone switched from Class AB/A to Class D? Was it better? Was it worse? In my primary residence the electronics is supplied by Conrad Johnson and the amp is the ART 27A, Class A. In our summer home the electronics is Marantz, and the amp is an integrated PM10, Class D. Before sending them to their final destination,... | |
| Hi end Audio Club for Southeast Florida Please add me to the list. I am in Wellington. Bill Stevenson | |
| Vinyl Care richardbrand, Ben Franklin advises us to say all of the positive things we can, but none of the negative. You seem determined to obfuscate the value of this discussion with unproveable conjecture. The following is my response.... Please stop. | |
| Vinyl Care Neil, I believe we are in agreement. My concluding sentence "There is more than one way to clean a dirty record, but follow the proven scientific methods." With respect to Last I have shared this story on this forum before. I was working at a ... | |
| How much do I need to spend to make vinyl sound better than digital? There is no simple answer to your question. My best phono playback system (I have more than one) has a price tag of over $70K, my best cd player cost almost $17K. Usually, the phono playback is the better of the two, but not always. It depends ... | |
| Vinyl Care This thread is an excellent case study of what is good and bad about the internet and forums like this one. As it meanders along the impetus has been perpetuated by a series of excellent questions. There is a lot of good information, but unfortu... | |
| Recorded Cleaning Machnies My only contribution here is to amplify the excellent points already raised. I use a VPI MW-1 Cyclone for pre-clean, rinse, (a second pre-clean if the record is very dirty, rinse, second clean, then final rinse and dry. I use a HumminGuru Nova fo... | |
| Technics 1200G vs VPI Forever Model One Thank you. | |
| Technics 1200G vs VPI Forever Model One I have not attempted to lubricate the bearing on my HW40. Will look into it. I am trying to buy locate my Roadrunner and Eagle, which are reported to be sitting in storage unused and unloved. Do you know if they could be used on my HW19 MkIII? | |
| Why I don't hear bass drums on Jazz LPs? Joe told me that especially when The Dave Brubeck Quartet first started playing "Take Five", he struggled with the solo because 5/4 time was just so difficult to stay on top of. That is why Dave comped on the piano throughout to help Joe keep tra... | |
| Vinyl Care Perhaps I should weigh in again. It is HumminGuru. I have one of their 2nd generation Nova machines and I use it in conjunction with my new VPI MW-1 Cyclone. The VPI does the heavy cleaning and the HG does the final touches. This is way beyond... |