bpoletti
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| Herron VTPH-2A or Manley Chinook mk II phonostage Why has this thread not been resolved? It's Herron VTPH-2A. Period. End of discussion. Now go get one and stop worrying. You won't need to upgrade in the future. | |
| Copper, silver, or gold MC cartridge coils? Copper only for ALL audio signals. Coils, cables.... Everything. Other metals are colored. | |
| What kind of listening chair Recliner, overstuffed, soft and velour-covered. Sit upright but with the footrest kicked up. Left speaker front about 8 feet from the wall behind them 2 feet from left wall (long wall). Right speaker about 7 feet from the wall behind them 3 + f... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? It's Ravel night. Going through the Ravel pieces (except his orchestration of Pictures). Lot's o' fun and interesting material. | |
| CD or DVD player to use as a transport The reason for using a CD or CD / DVD player is to keep the cost to a minimum. That said, I think I paid $130 for the Onkyo C-7030 a few years ago. But that was then and this is now. (My money is invested in a vinyl front end, but there are a few ... | |
| Jelco TK-850L Installation and Initial Impressions @pani Thanks for the info. The Skala is very nice and closer to the tonal balance of the AT house sound. I find the Skala more detailed with a better soundstage and imaging than what I've experienced with AT carts. I expect that my next cart... | |
| Balanced vs. Unbalanced Inputs Where is the empirical evidence of improvement using balanced connections? Any? Any at all? Oh, that's right, because there is none. | |
| Rega Planar 3 : Heavily upgraded yet produces a sound that I don't like Maybe you're expecting more out of your table than it's capable of delivering. I had a Rega Planar 3. I returned it the next day. Bought my first VPI table instead. There are plenty of good-sounding tables out there without having to settle fo... | |
| Jelco TK-850L Installation and Initial Impressions Was about to resurrect this thread myself. I've just installed a Lyra Skala in the arm. Headshell wires were an issue, clip broke on one lead, the clips didn't QUITE fit the Skala. I used leades from a Micro Seiki headshell (from a MS-505 arm) ... | |
| Speaker upgrade To expand on the use of artificial ficus trees.... They are diffusers, The leaves deflect sound rather than keeping a coherent soundwave bouncing off the walls. It breaks up and helps absorb the sound waves. The ficus trees are also have much ... | |
| Speaker upgrade @romney80.... Thanks for the kinds words. Artificial ficus trees are not my original idea. But they are certainly effective in reducing room problems and one of the best bangs for the buck in acoustic room tuning. | |
| Perfect Speaker Placement - Put next to the back wall as much as possible. That placement works great and is absolutely the very best speaker placement.... Not. | |
| Curl or Pass @wspohn wrote:"I like both, but IMHO neither attains the level of Curl's older Vendetta design (I don't believe that the parts are available to replicate those, although a variant was used in the CTC Blowtorch preamp." Completely agree. JC's Ven... | |
| Curl or Pass @dougthebiker wrote: On another note, I’ve never heard of Herron or Tom Evans. Where could I find some reviews of those?Dougthebiker Wow. You're planning to spend a couple thousand dollars and you haven't even done any basic research into alte... | |
| Curl or Pass For the price point your using, there are other phono stage designs that you might find a little better. One might be a Herron VTPH-2A. Maybe a few dollars more, but not significantly so on the used market, if you can find one. |