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| NAD 3020 My first amp way way back from the 1980s. Recommendation from a friend at university - loved it. Lasted a good decade before the pots got a little crackly and needed cleaning. Soft clipping and tone controls too. Unlike some of the newer NADs (and... | |
| What is proper ratio of money spent on amp/preamp/integrated vs speakers? 1:1? I understand the desire for big amps - we British used to make do with 50 watt amps and laughed at the folks across the pond with their 200 watt abominations. We were still laughing when the Krell landed here UK side - then the laughing stopped.Gr... | |
| BBC Radio 3: Being Orson @noble100 , with a £5 billion annual budget financed by the British public perhaps we have a right to ask a few questions, don't you think?£155 a year mandatory subscription fee per household whether you watch it or not? Just try that in America a... | |
| What is proper ratio of money spent on amp/preamp/integrated vs speakers? 1:1? @elizabeth your experience may differ but mine tells me that the difference between a NAD integrated and a Naim Pre/Power combo is vanishingly small once you get over the 'obvious' idea that the Naim must be superior. Strangely enough after this u... | |
| What is proper ratio of money spent on amp/preamp/integrated vs speakers? 1:1? There are no ratios between amplifier and loudspeaker cost but it is generally agreed that amplifier performance flat lines a heck of a lot sooner than does that of loudspeakers (or turntables). Some feel that amps stop improving after around $500... | |
| BBC Radio 3: Being Orson Thanks for the memo. Being R3 it still may be worth checking out. It's shocking how the BBC has surrendered most of its former standards in pursuit of populism - and failed. It's now little more than an publicly financed overblown political footba... | |
| Is it possible to have vinyl nearly noise free? @mrdecibel "What was frightening, we saw little pieces of the record vinyl being torn away from the record, as the stylus passed over. Like rubber off a tire, but reversed ( the record was the road )."Yes, the velocities and forces in action are h... | |
| Why not use a non-contact stylus on a turntable? Yes, that sounds good. A non contact laser reading the vinyl and converting the sound into a digital format. All the goodness of analogue captured and preserved in digital. Err...hang on a moment, I forgot about the troublesome D word. I think we'... | |
| Lost all hearing in one ear, is it worth upgrading speakers? @mysteriousmrm, thanks for sharing.Jan 2018 I began to feel dizzy and sick in the pit of my stomach at the same time. Pretty scary after 30 seconds or so when it still hasn't stopped. I was more or less bed ridden for a week and very reluctantly w... | |
| Lost all hearing in one ear, is it worth upgrading speakers? You have my sympathies. This kind of thing is bad enough for the average person but for an audiophile it can be worse.As we age it seems like a never ending period of constant adjustments. Can’t play football anymore, stiffness in the mornings, ca... | |
| Is it possible to have vinyl nearly noise free? @fleschler yes that sublime point when vinyl is almost as quiet as a CD.That's what I think most fans of vinyl want. At that point, at least for me, its the music not the medium that counts. | |
| Worst Audio Injury !! @drkingfish, surgical scalpel? That was beyond brave. So easy to over focus on one area ('it's got to be perfect') and forget that you have a scalpel in your hand, or a soldering iron.Back injuries are so ludicrously easy to inflict on yourself - ... | |
| People That Have Upgraded From Harbeth 30.1s.... @dhcod , yes that terrible anticlimactic comedown feeling...On the other hand you might find consolation that your Harbeth's are pretty high up the sonic tree. They have to be if you prefer them to the ATC SCM19s. With any loudspeaker anywhere, it... | |
| I feel bad for speaker manufacturers Sure, it's no joke building high quality loudspeakers. But if we can start off building ones which can fool us into thinking we're listening to a real live human being (give or take radio station compression artefacts), then that's a great start t... | |
| Is it possible to have vinyl nearly noise free? @g_nakamoto, I found that with optimum cartridge set up and tracking there was no increase in surface noise or clicks and pops after numerous plays. I think its very hard to damage a record with just wear and tear if your turntable/arm and cartri... |