chayro
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| CD Player Tweak I use a Gutwire Notepad on top of my components. Damps out vibration without gluing anything inside. Don't know if they're still made. | |
| What Was Your Favorite “Game Changer” Moment? I posted above that hearing a $750 turntable sounding better in some ways than my 10K+ CD player was a real awakening. But also game changing was when I went to my dealer seeking to upgrade my amplifier and he demonstrated that upgrading the prea... | |
| Music for setting up speakers I think a good method is to use a track with a female vocal and fairly deep bass and move the speakers away from the walls to achieve the best balance between bass response and vocal clarity. As you move closer to the walls the bass might increas... | |
| Best Integrated Amp (for me) Plenty of good recommendations. If you have a MM cartridge, consider the Heed Elixir. Over budget, but you have good speakers and I would advise you not to cheap out too much or you will hear it. My advice is to buy new so you have dealer suppo... | |
| My Apologies to Miller Carbon I thought I recall Paul from PS saying he thought SS should be left on all the time and that his original products didn't have an on/off switch because of it. However, he went on to say that the market demanded the on/off switch so he included on... | |
| Is there a point of diminished returns with amps and Harbeth 30.1s? @dhcod - I absolutely hear what your are saying, but after trying some better cables with several Harbeth speakers and hearing the dramatic results, I think you are closing yourself off from a possible big upgrade. Your system is very nice and I’m... | |
| Is there a point of diminished returns with amps and Harbeth 30.1s? I know you are asking about amps, but IMO, contrary to Alan Shaw's opinion, speaker cables make a big difference. I've owned the M30s, SHL5s and P3s and I've found the right speaker cables to improve the sonics significantly. I don't know what y... | |
| Music Hall Cruise Control vs Pro-next Speed Box for MMF-7 Looks like the speed box does not have adjustments for speed control. Just 33/45. Is your tt running off speed? You need a KAB strobe to check it. If it's not, I would leave it alone. If it is, I would probably buy the Music Hall, as it has s... | |
| SLOT LOADING CD MECHANISMS - DO THE DAMAGE CD'S? If you're that against the slot loaders, you should try the Cambridge CXC, which is in your price range. I've had one for over a year and there are many satisfied owners here. One person above posted that he felt the Audiolab was far superior in... | |
| Heed Obelisk Integrated? @greg7 - I would ask Gene Rubin. He is a Heed dealer and has an excellent reputation for sound advice and honesty. | |
| A phenomenal new CD transport-Pro-Ject CD Box RS2 transport I scrolled briefly through the thread to see if this was addressed, but I didn't see it (or just missed it) Arthur Salvatore once made comparisons using Esoteric transports and dacs and his conclusion was that the better transport with the lesser ... | |
| Help with first cable upgrade. I never tried Canare, but I do have a pair of 10 gauge Belden from Blue Jeans. In some situations they work absolutely fine, even in comparison to some much more expensive cables. But they have sounded absolutely terrible with some other component... | |
| I heard the Box At the time the Dynaco speakers were popular, people expected to hear the box. Or maybe a better way to put it is that we didn’t expect NOT to hear the box. At that time, we bought a hifi system and expected it only to play records or cassettes in... | |
| Help with first cable upgrade. Not sure of what you consider "budget friendly", but if you are looking to enter the cable arena, I would check out The Cable Company website and see if they still have any of the Audience AU24 cables at 50% off. They are older versions of the AU... | |
| Possible issues with Marantz CD player Check all your cable connections. Disconnect, clean and replace. You may have an oxidized connection that is causing intermittent issues. It may well be the laser or something else, but try the simplest fix first. Also, try plugging into anothe... |