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| Owning the speakers you dreamed of 20 years ago I think you have to challenge old speakers using new technology. When I play Santana's debut album CD through JBL L150As they sound amazing with palpable bass. The effect is not the same when I play the record (original pressing). | |
| SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best? Correction. Ortofon T-30 is 3-48 ohms. | |
| SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best? I have both Ortofon T-20 and Ortofon T-30. The T-20 (2ohms) is perfect for Ortofon MC20 mk-2 and I exclusively use it with it. The T-30 has a variable impedance selectable through a knob from 3-36 ohms (not continuous). Happy with both of them. I... | |
| Upgrade my CD player or futile effort? I am itching to try Technics SL-G700. Currently backordered(?chip shortage). All-in-one solution that has been praised by a lot of owners on the forums. Don’t know whether the DAC is R/2R or 1-bit. | |
| older CD transport vs newer ones. Everything mechanical breaks! My “warm sounding”, “built like a tank” Yamaha CDX-1120 from 1989 cannot be repaired since its laser pickup is unobtainable. It had a lovely output when channeled through my 1969 tube-based system. In my opinion, newe... | |
| What Integrated Amp do You use 07-30-2021 4:24pm@cardvn1Ahhh...A man of refinement and discerning taste….Thanks @Tsushima1 for your appreciation. I am sorry I was wrong in saying that AU-111 has 7591 tubes. Mine has JJ 6L6GC tubes. | |
| What Integrated Amp do You use Sansui AU-111 from 1969. Uses four 7591 power tubes. | |
| Hidden Gems in Pre-Owned Solid State Power Amplifiers? Yamaha MX-1 and MX-2 Power amps. They perform flawlessly down to a speaker impedance of 2 ohms and came out at the peak of 2-channel stereo era before everyone started to make surround sound integrated amps. | |
| Best Way for my TT to reach my Pre-Amp!? Consider iFi iPhono as a phono preamp. It has settings for capacitance and various settings for the equalization. I like mine set at 100pF and use their proprietary eRIAA settings for equalization. By playing with the settings you will be able to ... | |
| So many great golden era DD tables out there, what do you recommend for $1000? I can only recommend from my personal experience:1. Technics SL-1600 mk22. Technics SL-16503. Technics SL-J33(Linear tracking- no hassles of alignment)4. Sansui P-L95R(Linear tracking- but I don’t know how long the autoreverse will last. Mechanic... | |
| Integrated tube amp under $1000 / $2000 I am very happy with a 1965 Sansui 1000A Receiver/Integrated amp at 40wpc RMS. Completely restored by Decibel Audio of Chicago. Sounds amazing with my Sansui SP-2000 speakers. Has 21 tubes in total with 2 very heavy Hashimoto transformers contrib... | |
| What albums, in your opinion, sound unquestionably better on Vinyl rather than Digital? Rumors by Fleetwood MacA Swingin’ Safari by Bert KaempfertA Kind of Blue (MOFI pressing) by Miles Davis | |
| Which Nakamichi to choose? My problem is that when I use Dolby B or C while recording on a Nak, it does not sound the same on Aiwa HS-PC20 CassetteBoy in my car with Dolby. So I started recording at very high recording levels on my Nak without Dolby and now I do not have an... | |
| Which Nakamichi to choose? Let’s not forget that Nakamichi decks even now hold a good value if serviced by the previous owner. Some of the models mentioned in this thread are rare and very expensive to buy if well maintained by previous owner. If you want a good Nak deck ... | |
| Tube amps and speaker matching Pardon me, the Sansui 1000a has specs 8-16 ohm. My mistake. |