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| Audio Research LS17 to Headphone Amp? If you must leave the cables connected, get a pair of cardas caps to put on the ends. They can create noise, etc. Basically act like little antennaes.Keep the volume low on your preamp and see what happens when rec/out is engaged and the cables ar... | |
| Empirical Audio Overdrive DAC: King of the Hill? Not sure of the dac but I have experienced the best digital bypassing my preamplifier as well. Both my esoteric x03SE and Berkeley DAC sound amazing directly into my amps. | |
| Best phono stage balanced under $3000 used Absolutely agree on the Rhea. Got mine here for $2,200 - $600 in tubes and I'm in heaven. | |
| Has anyone replaced tubes in Aesthetix Rhea ? Just wanted to share the tube compliment I came up with. DEAD quiet, nice sparkle on the top, holographic soundstage and very nice air around the instruments. V1,V2 & V3 - Sylvania 12AX7V4 - Brimar 12AX7V5 - Amperex 6922/6DJ8 (1961)All NOS, ma... | |
| Sound mystery Could you have loosened a cable (or turntable ground wire) during the moving of components? If you moved the table (even an inch) check leveling, speed and VTF. Check the polarity on the speaker cables as well as the polarity on the ac outlets. I ... | |
| Who has upgraded from Tara Labs Air cables ? Same here. Still have the RSC Air 1 speaker cables and would like to go The One but a little pricey. | |
| I have the dreaded hum Reconnect the old phonostage and see if the hum is gone. | |
| How Important is RPM for Hard Drives sorry-and seek time, natch, | |
| How Important is RPM for Hard Drives I happen to think that speed and cache (and transfer interface) are the most important issues of a drive. I run 10,000 RPM drives, Western Digital Blacks, SATA (RAID). Don't skimp on Hard Drives. Few hundred bucks for hours upon hours of ripping. | |
| NAD T747 OR Marantz SR7005 Agree-NAD. Different league although a good anthem is in that league. I love my NAD T775 - blew away the pioneer elite 92THX before it and the Rotel separates prior to that. | |
| WHAT ABOUT CLOCKS? I have a good music server (Touch, Esoteric Clock/Upsampler/Berkeley DAC) and an Esoteric X03SE and the SACD on the X03 still trumps the music server, as well as many other recordings (XRCD, DSD, etc). You can have both and I would go for the K-01... | |
| WHAT ABOUT CLOCKS? I just added an Esoteric G25U to my Esoteric X03SE. I am still evaluating but it does appear to be a positive effect. The real plus for me, though, is that the G25U is also an upsampler (up to 192/24) so I am upsampling my SB Touch with the G25U a... | |
| Connectting Alesis 9600 to BAT VK32-SE I use the tape loop on my linestage and the recordings off my TT are excellent. Does anyone know if you can record vinyl at a higher resolution (and burn CD) w/o using CD24?(sorry to hijack) | |
| Marantz SR7005 OR Pioneer ELite SC-35 Really not sure unless you can go 2500, then I would say go with the nad t775. It is much better than the nad you had. I would just keep away from class d receivers and the consumer stuff. Maybe a rotel? I had rotel before the pioneer elite. There... | |
| CD Player break in period They do take a long time to break in but once they do... Thanks to Guido, who figured out that the power supply on the large esoteric were good enough that they didn't need power cables with digital filtering, I chucked a python vx cable for a reg... |