chadlesko
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| Headshell Connector Question That is what I’m looking for. I thought there would be 100’s to choose from. Do you know the connector name? I’ve tried SME and Ortofon but neither yields a quick answer. When I look at market headshells they all seem to use the same plastic c... | |
| DynAudio Contour 60 vs Paradigm Persona 7F Last week I had to opportunity to hear the Contour 60 and Contour 30 back to back on Hegel equipment. Unfortunately I can't comment on the Paradigm speakers, however I was really impressed with the Dynaudio sound. In fact I felt shameful for not... | |
| USB cable opinions I can confuse the heck out of you...I own the Audioquest Diamond, JCAT Reference and have tried for several weeks the Wireworld 7. At first I preferred the Wireworld 7 and after upgrading my amp during that time I flipped to preferring the Audioq... | |
| Please Recommend Transport + DAC for $5K total At that price point I would focus on the DAC and use anything with an optical or coaxial out (provided the DAC has an input for it). To get a $2500 transport and $2500 DAC may be cutting it too thin. Maybe you could use your Jolida CDP for trans... | |
| "Best" mini-monitor? Having owned Spendor S3e, Merlin MME , Usher Be-718, Spica TC60 and a few others, my favorite to date have been Volent VL-2. With that said, I currently like both Devore O/96 and O/93 models. They had a palpable sound at low listening levels. | |
| How to choose a cartridge you can't hear on your system? Let me ask a different question. Can one generalize that a high end cartridge of a manufacturer produce system synergy if their lower end model(s) do? I'm curious if it is always a crap shoot or if one could try several "cheaper" models and then... | |
| What's been your turntable ownership over the years? Rega Planar 3 - RB300 - Goldring Michelle Gyrodec turned Orbe - Benz H2Micro Seiki 1500 - Micro Arm - Dynavector XV-1s, Sumiko Evo IIII'm less interested in a new table anymore, but highly interested in hearing cartridges in my system. If only it... | |
| recommendations of phono preamps < $3000 range I'll second the Aesthetix Rhea. The good part about Aesthetix is you can upgrade the same unit over time...Signature and Eclipse versions. I can't say enough about he Eclipse version but the base model is very good out of the gate. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Branford Marsalis - Trio Jeepy | |
| Aesthetix / Classe synergy. ? Have you give the Atlas a thought? I love the musicality with my Calypso and Rhea | |
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| External Drive Help Recently I got into the digital arena of music, being mostly a vinyl listener. For storage I have a Netgear ReadyNAS 102 connected to a switch at my stereo. This resides in the basement at the opposite end of the house from my backup. Backup is co... | |
| Best Transport for Tidal My only experience is Tidal on Auralic Aries to DAC. Just be careful because the Aries requires an Ipad (not Iphone yet) or Andriod device to run (anything, including Tidal). There is no computer interface. In my experience the Aries has been very... | |
| Best Computer Speakers The past 2 months or so I have been on the same journey. In fact I've ended up with Audioengine A2+ speakers. The two others that really came in to play were Focal XS Book speakers (on sale at Crutchfield for similar money, not chosen due to dimen... | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC This is a great post...I am struggling with the same decision. Right now I have the DS on loan from my local audio store. The DAC's I am considering:PS Audio DSAesthetix PandoraBicasti M1Playback Designs 3I am hoping to get the Aesthetix in on tri... |