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| Former Spica owners ... what did you trade up to ? >> I'm currently awaiting delivery of a pair of Reynaud OffrandesAbsolutely remarkable speakers if you have the right room for them. | |
| DAC placement In my experience, isolating most components other than front end devices (turntables, CD transports and spinning disks) is unnecessary. As long as your input and output cables are snug and do not wiggle about (USB cables are notorious for this), y... | |
| best wood for speaker cabinets ? oak,cherry, balti Mattzack2, you have received a lot of advice from guys who don't seem to understand Audio Note's speaker design technology. As you undoubtedly know, Audio Note speakers are upgraded versions of Peter Snell's original designs. Snell built his K, J ... | |
| The DAC version of the Meridian CD Player Antelope Audio Zodiac Gold. The best sounding DAC for the money, IMO. Has inputs, headphone jack and volume control so can be used as a headphone amp and/or preamp if desired.Antelope Audio is well known for their time clocks used in the professio... | |
| Tubed Linestage Handymann,>>I read where it was suggested that ARC equipment doesn't mate well with Krell...I have never heard that before. I ran an ARC PH-3SE and LS-16 into a Krell KAV-250 powering my Apogee hybrid ribbons for years, and I thought that it... | |
| Cartridge for a Thomas Schick Tonearm...MM ? I agree with Franks. I own a Schick tonearm, and I think that the DL-103R is very good with these caveats: 1- Lose the outer plastic shell. A nuded 103x is much better than the stock version, and in fact I actually prefer a nude version mounted on... | |
| Tonearm setup manual for a Yamaha PF-1000? Semchen,The Yamaha PF-1000 is essentially the same unit as the PF-800, except for some cosmetic changes and a different platter. If you send me an email with your address I will shot you a copy of the PF-800 manual, which includes arm and cartridg... | |
| Audio Note OTO vs Kit1 Sergei71,I am still not sure how to answer your original question. My own opinion, based on having owned both the OTO SE Phono and having built a couple of Audio Note Kits, is that the build and parts quality of the factory product is probably hig... | |
| Warped records in SF bay area My opinion is that unless you have a s#*tload of warped records, this is a rediculously expensive toy. I would think it cheaper and easier to just replace the warped LPs or just play them as is. | |
| Audio Note OTO vs Kit1 Sergei71,Is your OTO an SE or PP model? Those differences aside, you are trying to compare apples and oranges. The OTO is an EL84 amp and the Kit 1 uses 300B driver tubes. These are very different beasts, each with a with very sound.Perhaps you ar... | |
| Nottingham tonearms compared to other brands? Zeal,Sorry, I was out of town for a couple of days. My tests were mostly with MC cartridges. I have had very good results with the Benz Ace LO, Dynavector 20X2 and the Shelter 501-II. I preferred the Benz.The only MM cartridge I tested on the Spac... | |
| Long USB cable I would recommend that you avoid a USB cable over 3.5M long. Do you have a wireless LAN in your home? If so, use a Logitech Squeezebox or Sonos to stream music from yopur iMac server to your system via wi-fi. | |
| amp for snell k Having owned several pairs of Snell Ks, Js and Es, I find that these speakers sound best with a reasonably powered valve amps. My preference is for SET, but PP is also great. Here are my choices for a good match w/ Ks (or K/IIs):- Audio Note OTO S... | |
| Underrated jazz greats Viridian,Great call on Toshiko Akioshi. What a great performer! My brother went to high school with their daughter, and we used to go see the Akiyoshi-Tabackin Big Band at Dante's in North Hollywood whenever we had the chance. | |
| Nottingham tonearms compared to other brands? I have experience only with the short (9") Space Arm, but I think that it's a great unipivot tonearm. It's much easier to set up than the VPI or Hadcock, by comparison, and it tracks very well. The armtube is carbon fibre thus the arm is quite lig... |