br3098
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| Speaker Clarifiers? Things you should not spend money on until after you've hired an acoustic consultant.... or had your ears checked by a good audiologist | |
| Remote controlled DHT preamps? I use a great DHT preamp made by a wonderful gentleman names Radu Tarta. He is located in CT and designs & builds custom tube amps. His DHT preamp can be customized to suit your needs, is built like a tank and features great components. I d... | |
| Tonearm suggestions for my Nottingham Analogue Spacedeck Why don't you look at the Pear Audio tonearms? These are the final tonearm designs by Tom Fletcher of Nottingham fame are drop-in compatible with your deck. IMO and experience they are greatly improved over the older Nottingham offerings and wil... | |
| Speaker advice for listening to Blues music cedarblues, I have paired these speakers with several of my amps including 2W 45 SET monoblocks, a 5W EL34 (wired in triode mode), a 12W EL84 integrated and a 25W mac MC225 7591 PP, All sounded great but, as you would guess, very different. I'm ... | |
| Speaker advice for listening to Blues music Ahem, those are mine. If you have any questions feel free to ask away.I play all sorts of music (except country-western and hip hop), with a strong preference for jazz, vocals and small ensemble classical. I am taken with these so much that I ha... | |
| Most “disappeared” speakers. It's as much about the room and speaker placement than the speakers - maybe more. | |
| SUT or phono stage? I suggest that you find (or make) a friend who has an SUT that will match your cartridge and try it. I'm an SUT guy - I own several for my favorite cartridges and I prefer the sound of MC and an SUT to a high output phono stage or head amp. But ... | |
| Looking for speakers for my 4W SET amp 4W is tough4W is more than enough, assuming that you select symbiotic gear and aren't trying to play in a concert hall-sized space.My 45 Triode monoblocks put out 1.5Wpc and play plenty loud in my living room. How many enthusiastic owners of de... | |
| Bought some `Vintage Gear` I just wish vintage gear wasn't so stupidly expensive. I blame the Millennials!When I was in and just out of high school I worked for the old RSL. Every dollar I made went into gear - mostly Luxman. One of my daughters still uses some of that g... | |
| Looking for speakers for my 4W SET amp There are a lot of choices. A search on Audiogon will reveal a slew of threads. My short-ish go-to list of SET friendly speakers include:- Klipsch Heritage. Heresy to Khorn, depending on your room and your budget- Omega. All good. Speak to Lo... | |
| Speaker advice for listening to Blues music There are a lot of good options out there. I would consider a pair of Klipsch Heresy IIIs. Warm, wet and fat is the best way to describe the sound. In a small room they will probably produce enough bass and if not you can always augment with a ... | |
| Leben CS 600 and Harbeth vs Audio Note vs ATC vs JM Reynaud Without knowing exactly which of these vendor's products you are considering it is hard to offer useful advise. I have limited experience with the Leben integrrated amps and Harbeth speakers, but I did own an Audio Note OTO and JM Reynaud Offrand... | |
| First Turntable - Direct drive or Belt drive? Melm,Hmm, I never really considered that I might be neurotic. That explains a lot... | |
| First Turntable - Direct drive or Belt drive? With regard to your primary question: Direct Drive or Belt Drive?IMO it doesn't really matter, all turntable drive types can sound good or bad. The question is what sounds good/better/best to you? Listen to as many turntable/cartridge phone stag... | |
| How does Amazon sell a 300.00 cartridge for 180.00? in the old days cartridges were among the highest markup items around, about 10x their cost. Kind of like tooth brushes at the pharmacy. Insane markups. More true for audio cables than for cartridges. |