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| What To Do? Lyra Delos Phonostage of your liking (test several) The remainder into a VPI table with a gimballed arm. | |
| Transmission line speakers! A lot of Mark Audio full range drivers use Mass Loaded Transmission Line (MLTL) speaker enclosure designs to optimize their bass response. They are modern designs that more resemble bass reflex boxes in appearance with a duct at the bottom of the ... | |
| At a given price point, better to go late vintage or modern? AT ANY GIVEN PRICE POINT, the decision varies by individual piece of equipment. Some equipment was overpriced and not a value even at half price. Other equipment is a great value even at twice its retail price. Only YOUR ears can make the call. | |
| Lyra Delos or Hana ML Definitely the Delos. Even on a RB2000 arm, it will beat the competition. But you should consider a better arm. Soon. Modern Lyra carts really sing on better arms. | |
| FEDEX keeps destroying my New CARY 805RS Monoblocks - What can I do to prevent Nightmare? I enjoy road trips. You should try it. It's a nice drive on the roads once you leave NJ. 1280 miles? Leisurely two-day drive, but avoid Chicago by at least 75 miles. | |
| Biamp question Buy-amping is an especially effective marketing tool for electronics manufacturers. | |
| Tree in listen room disburse Mr. Lumberjack.... (Got wood?) My listening room contains around 15 or so artificial ficus trees. 5-footers. They are scattered around the room in what appears, but is decidedly NOT, random placement. They are VERY EFFECTIVE DIFFUSERS and "fix... | |
| How to tame a bright system? Cables? It sounds like you need to change toe-in / toe-out of your speakers and the distance between your speakers and distance between the speakers and listening position. That seems to track closer with your description and is more likely the ... | |
| Silver v Copper wire phono cable Oh, Raul.... Once again your evaluation and interpretation fails. Silver ADDS a 5khz to 8khz rise, even though slight, that creates a hardness / harshness to the signal. It is pollution and distortion of the signal. And I suggest that your sys... | |
| Silver v Copper wire phono cable Dear @jw944ts : With out doubt you must go for the copper . The ones that could tell you other thing has not the kind of room/system you own. Do not let the distortions of silver enter your system. | |
| Tube Preamps that work well with SS amps? +1 for the Herron VPSP-360. | |
| Dedicated 20 Amp Line for Audio cleeds: bpoletti Why a "dedicated circuit" when everything gets lumped together upstream of the comnpponent? Dedicated lines can avoid the noise and voltage drop that may result from daisy chained convenience circuits. It’s a difference yo... | |
| Help, which preamp to buy from my shortlist? "What? No ARC SP-6B?" Not on the OP's list. "Where's conrad-johnson?" Not on the OP's list. The question is "Why aren't these on the OP's list?" Maybe they should be since, particularly with the SP-6B, these manufacturers typically ... | |
| Help, which preamp to buy from my shortlist? What? No ARC SP-6B? | |
| Desk top speakers at low cost Have you thoought about building a pair of speakers small speakers using full range drivers from MarkAudio (Alpair 7's) of a couple of 5" Satori midwoofers.? No crossovers needed and they will provide a nice desktop system, especially from the Ma... |