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| NY audio show 2022 I no longer live in NYC but did for many many years. I actually met you at one of the NY audio shows, it must have been 2017 or 2018. Your room sounded incredible, among the best against rooms with speakers that cost 5x more. Looking at the curr... | |
| What are songs where people or instruments sound closer to you? Also to weigh in on the mono recording posts above, the Analog Productions masters of Ella and Louis does an exceptional job of portraying depth. | |
| What are songs where people or instruments sound closer to you? @curiousjim That's the one! | |
| To truly enjoy this hobby, I need to learn electronics. Any book recs? As a prerequisite or companion to Robert Hartley’s book, you can look at Radio Shack’s “Getting Started in Electronics”. It is taught at a “for dummies” level but is quite an incredible wealth of information. | |
| What are songs where people or instruments sound closer to you? Sarah Vaughan “Ain’t No Use”. Depending on speaker positioning in various systems, I’ve heard her sound huge and front center stage or hear her very far back way beyond the speakers. Placement of other instruments are very well separated with good... | |
| Placement of Components @bgchz Placement in the center is acceptable, but generally the more free space you can have between and around the speakers, the better they will image. While there may be some that will say they move their gear away from between their speakers ... | |
| Speaker Placement and Toe-In +1 @holmz on saying a lot about the room. I started a similar a similar thread last month on this as well that some of you contributed to. @ozzy How wide is your room, how far apart are the speakers, and what’s your listening distance? The fact ... | |
| Solid State Phono Stages @vonhelmholtz I decided to let the BMC unit go. I have to say it is impressive in every way for its price point, and while it may have done some things technically better, the Audionet PAM G2 with the EPS power supply just delivered greater musica... | |
| 3k Phono preamp upgrade options (JC3+, XP-17, etc) @riskymilk I used a Synergistic Research Blue fuse in mine. They’re no longer made, but they come up used on marketplaces. The more recent versions are the Orange and Purple. The effects of SR’s fuses are talked about (and debated) on many threads... | |
| 3k Phono preamp upgrade options (JC3+, XP-17, etc) @riskymilk Perhaps look into these. It’s a quad but at least you have backups if one ever dies. It’ll be harder to source them down the road. 6C45s from Ukraine | |
| 3k Phono preamp upgrade options (JC3+, XP-17, etc) @riskymilk I am so glad you decided to move forward with this unit and are happy with the results. It truly is a superb phono stage in its price range. The second link you shared is accurate for the 6922 substitution, but I would be careful of th... | |
| Finally made the transition to a tube preamp! @zazouswing I agree with you as well… I guess it depends on the design. Not all all preamps are phono stages are microphonic, even one bit, but many of them are. And yes, proper tube matching and quality needs to be enforced due to the low level o... | |
| Audio Technica ART9 fans....who's getting this? @bill_k Thanks, I missed that. I was trying to read the page carefully, I should have just searched the page for the word! | |
| Audio Technica ART9 fans....who's getting this? That’s one sexy cartridge. I was a huge fan of the ART-9 and it is still my preferred cart under $4-5K. I owned the ART-1000 and while it was more highly resolving, it was too neutral in tonal balance, and I preferred the slight bloom the ART9 had... | |
| Finally made the transition to a tube preamp! Preamps and phono stages are typically the best components to start with tubes as it allows the amp to deliver quality current/power to control the speakers and introduces the least amount of tube noise in the system. In a system that is well-cont... |