bpoletti
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| Phoenix Engineering Falcon and Eagle Speed monitoring is probably not necessary as long as there is sufficient motor torque. Reduction of the voltage to the motor will reduce the pulses in the belt drive. THAT is the real issue. That can be addressed with a small variostat. No sp... | |
| Disaster WAF not too good? | |
| Phoenix Engineering Falcon and Eagle slaw - Why? Maybe they made the smart move by just buying the remaining inventory. What would make them a "surrogate of VPI"? Besides, now those warranties are all in question. How long will those units continued to be supported under warrant... | |
| More from VPI! Chassis looks like a squared-up Prime Sig on rubber feet. Didn't know VPI had a gimbal arm that was in the same league as any of their unipivots. | |
| Should I consider the newer Audio Research pre & power amps, when I play records not CD's You're right. There are few used Herron Audio components for sale even though there are thousands of units out there. Could it be that the owners are so satisfied with them that they find few other components good enough to replace them? What I... | |
| Should I consider the newer Audio Research pre & power amps, when I play records not CD's Go with all Herron Audio. I haven't heard anything better. IMO, VTPH-2 phono stage is as good as it gets, I haven't heard any line stage better than the Herron VTSP-3A (r03). Amps are extremely good. No coloration, no distortion. Just the music. | |
| Preamp choice for a Dynaco ST-35 amp The Dyna is a good choice. But make sure the preamp is fully warmed-up, a full minute or more, BEFORE you power up the amp. And make sure you power down the amp and wait 30 seconds or so BEFORE you power down the preamp. The PAS 3X can shoot so... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? There was an article a few years ago in (IIRC) Stereophile or some audiophile rag that tested several high end speaker cables. They also tried a few "underground" solutions including a pair of 10ga (or was it 8ga) stranded copper THHN cable (petr... | |
| Which pre should I choose? My current preference is a Herron VTSP-3A (r03). It is rich and full in tone and harmonics. It is also quite dynamic and time alignment is as good as it gets. I have heard nothing better. | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Opinion....I have wondered for some time whether silver contributes to a resonance in conductors that results in it’s particular coloration that I hear. It may not interact with equipment I haven’t heard. Some may like what I think is a coloration... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? joey_vMaybe that's why they make different kinds of cables. But my opinion stands. I have never heard a silver cable I could live with. YMMV. | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? I'm in the low cost club. NOT necessarily the anything works club. There are inexpensive 12ga and 14ga cable solutions, but they are not all created equal. And there are 10ga and 8ga solutions that sound very good but most are impractical and, ... | |
| Ortofon 2m Bronze in a Jelco 750D? The SA-750D is a very good arm and worked quite well with a Lyra Clavis da Capo. Not sure of the mass, but the Lyra is pretty demanding and requires a high mass arm, IIRC. | |
| Doh, left system off all night o_holter - Tubes don't have the warm-up problems that ss does. My experience is that tubes take a max of an hour or two to reach their envelope of best performance. Solid state can take 10 times that long or longer. So tubes can be MUCH more ec... | |
| Doh, left system off all night Lalit,I cannot disclose the DAC I will get because it will end up being somebody's prototype. But the DAC I have been using is an out of production modified Douk. There might have been others better, but not in my system. String... nice feat... |