chayro
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| Esoteric K-05 or K-07? I owned an X-05 for about 6 months and it was anything but warm or lush. Perhaps their more expensive players have a different tonal balance. | |
| Speakers for low power SET, nearfield, low volume? Have Fritz make you a pair of single-driver standmounts. I have a pair with the 4" Fostex drivers and they really sound good at low volumes. I think they only cost about $400 and they're very well built, IMO. | |
| Change the cartridge or phono stage Just try the Herbies mat before spending more money and taking your tonearm apart. The sound may well be improved to your satisfaction. | |
| Lamm LL2.1 Deluxe "DC Offset"? Gr-gin, I'm sorry to say this, but you chose to make this a public matter. I cannot believe that any dealer that handles an uber high-end line like Lamm would leave you hanging with a defective product. IMO, there is more to this story than we're ... | |
| Change the cartridge or phono stage I assume you mean the Music Hall turntable? Try a Herbies mat. You're probably thinking that a mat can't make that much of a difference, but on that table it does. Much more warmth and bottom end, IMO. Herbies gives a 30-day money back, so there's... | |
| Tekton custom grills Maybe the guy's basement flooded. | |
| Integrates That Go Well With Totem Forest The Bada DC225 is excellent. 75WPC, tube hybrid. $1200 at Pacific Valve with 30 day money back. If you really want to blast, Bada makes a more powerful amp at about $1800, but I haven't heard it. Also available at Pacific Valve. | |
| looking for cable recommendations Naim amps are meant to work with a minimum of 12.5' of Naim cable in order to keep the amps stable. I believe Spectral amps might also require Spectral/MIT cables. Other than those 2, I'm not aware of any other cable/amp compatibility issues that ... | |
| Lamm LL2.1 Deluxe "DC Offset"? That's crazy. Anything purchased new from a dealer should be delivered in perfect working condition. If they can't resolve the problem, get something else. Jesus, why would you bother buying new from a dealer except for the support? Otherwise, you... | |
| looking for cable recommendations I would seriously check out the Black Cat cables. The designer, Chris Sommivigo, was the designer of the excellent Stereovox cables and he brought a lot of it to the much lower-priced Black Cats. | |
| Humor In Music Steely Dan doesn't take itself too seriously? Becker and Fagen can compete with the most self-important people I could ever imagine. Maybe Fagen has changed because he's pushing 70, but back in the day, he never struck me as a person who thought h... | |
| Lamm LL2.1 Deluxe "DC Offset"? If it's brand new, why don't you call the dealer? | |
| Are some of us losing our minds over upgrades?? Charles, I'd venture a guess that you would agree with me that, in order to truly judge a component's merit, one needs to listen to it in their system for a significant period of time, through the complete break-in period and after the initial rus... | |
| Another DAC suggestion a step above Metrum Octave There is an Ear Acute DAC up for sale right now. It is definitely easy to listen to, non-fatiguing and, IMO, beautiful sounding. Those Focal speakers you own can get a bit spitty at times and I think the EAR would be a great match. | |
| Are some of us losing our minds over upgrades?? A friend of mine had the Modwright Sony 9100 (as I recall) with the outboard power supply and all. I thought it was very good, but we both preferred his Mac transport into the Audio Logic dac in terms of body and harmonic completeness. Of course, ... |