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| I need some turntable guidance You are going to get a lot of different and conflicting advice. A few questions:1. I assume from your question that this will be your first turntable? 2. Do you prefer new or vintage? Drive type: belt, direct drive or idler wheel? If this is y... | |
| I am Looking for That Elusive 3 Dimensional Room Filling Soundstage If you use a speaker like the Larsen 4 you most probably won't need room treatments. Seriously. Sit them smack against the longest wall, move them apart or closer until the sound image is what you want and pour your favorite beverage.I used to b... | |
| I am Looking for That Elusive 3 Dimensional Room Filling Soundstage As much as I love conventional speakers, no box is going to fill a room with a huge 3D soundstage like a good omnidirectional or bidirectional speaker.For a room that small I would consider the smallest Ohm Walsh, the Larsen 4s or maybe a pair of ... | |
| Can quality sound be had using the short axis in a medium sized room (12X15) ?? By short axis I assume you mean "long wall" placement? If yes, I use this type of arrangement often but like everything else it depends in your room and your speakers. Beacuase of the way the room is designed and used, I can only use the long wa... | |
| So many great golden era DD tables out there, what do you recommend for $1000? IMO the best buy for a DD turntable under $1,000 is a Luxman PD-121 or PD-131. Pair that w/ a Micro Seiki MA-505 MkII tonearm and you are in the game.Honorable mention goes to the Teac TN-400, a great little deck that requires a plinth and tonear... | |
| McIntosh Tube amps or Solid State?? Advices needed!! I have tube amps and have spent this year alone $1300 in tubes.Wow! Well, there are tubes and amps and there are tubes and amps. High power pentodes don't last very long. Triodes can last a long time but DHT triodes will degrade over time. But... | |
| Tube Amps With Good Bass Qualities Amps don't make good bass. Speakers create music, including bass response.While it's true that different designs and different tubes will sound different, if you need more bass you need to find a speaker, compatible with your amp, that will deliv... | |
| SME 3009 Series III Haters The only reason to assume that the III should be used with high compliance cartridges is its very low mass@lewm7 au contraire - compliance matching is dictated by resonance. Mass is just one factor of a resonance equation. "Flexi" is another... | |
| Need Integrated Amp with Moving Coil Input Any SUT you would recommend?dylanfan, at risk of sounding like a cliché there are no bad SUTs. They all sound good, some more and some less according to your ears. As long as you match the loading and gain requirements for the specific MC cart... | |
| Need Integrated Amp with Moving Coil Input Or just use the MM input in your existing amp and add an SUT? Might save you some money and hassle and will probably sound better too. | |
| SME 3009 Series III Haters The SME Series III is a very good tonearm IF it's mated to an appropriate (ie. high compliance) cartridge. Yes, it looks a little funky and those sliding switch adjustments can be problematic if you are rough with it, but it sounds great when set... | |
| Does any one have experience with a high-end amp switch or the Luxman AS-55 The AS-55 and AS-50R can absolutely be used to switch one amp source to up to three sets of speakers or three amp sources a single set of speakers. Just remember that it's a switch designed for speaker output only. It's a brilliant design and is... | |
| Does any one have experience with a high-end amp switch or the Luxman AS-55 I have used a Luxman AS-55. It works great although I prefer the AS-50R remote model for comparing speakers because I don't have to get up off my butt to do an A/B comparison.Audio by Van Alstine also makes a very good comparator. It's probably ... | |
| Has anyone here restored a Sony TTS 8000 platter or a similar strobed platter My spidey sense smells a trap but here goes:It's not that I think the TTS8000 is a bad turntable, just that it's not a great turntable IMO and is not worth a lot of time or effort to restore; not from a monetary (resale) perspective anyway and I j... | |
| Speaker wants 100 watt RMS. Is 40 watt tube OK? No matter what anyone says, 40 watt tube approximates 100 watt SS. The size of the room is the dominant factor in this equation.Is there some law of physics I missed in school? This may be sorta true in some cases, with some amps but it's far f... |