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| Best "RedBook" player out there kalaliMcIntosh Group consists of McIntosh, Audio Research, Sonus Faber, Wadia and Sumiko. If you want to be complete, it also includes Pryma. | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? dynaquest4Sorta like putting $15,000 tires on a $40,000 BMW.Not exactly, right? After all, there are no such things as $15,000 tires for a BMW, correct? | |
| Best "RedBook" player out there pennsyMaranta reference series! Marantz and Mcintosh and Denon are owned by same company and share technology!That's no longer true. McIntosh was sold by D&M Holdings, who still own Marantz and Denon. Mac was sold to Fine Sounds, who also own... | |
| Mint lp best tractor for VPI Classic wlutkecleeds -VTA is an angle defined by the stylus and record surface, not the cantilever which can be out of alignment with the stylus - if you want to be specific to the last detail. SRA is the angle of the cantilever to cartridge body and... | |
| Fm tuner vtvmtodvm... I merely intended to refer to "HD Radio" as hi-def because that is what it is named; the HD handle stands for hi def.No, "HD Radio" does not mean or stand for "high-definition."See: https://hdradio.com/trademark " 'HD Radio’ is the b... | |
| Mint lp best tractor for VPI Classic wlutkecleeds wrote "You clearly don't understand VTA, which typically should be around 15 degrees, although opinions vary about the best overall compromise."cleeds, are you talking about the cantilever instead of the cart body?VTA - vertical t... | |
| Fm tuner vtvmtodvm06-24-2017 6:45pmFor those of us who prefer classical music and, like me, live within range of a good FM station that broadcasts such music, high quality FM reception is essential. And, while the advice that you’ve received is well inten... | |
| More curious than a real question- remote trigger? Anyone use it? northernescape... There really is no way it could effect sound. The only real possibility is if it triggered an independent path for line power, separate from the on/off switched path AND that path was in some bizarre way current limiting fo... | |
| Mint lp best tractor for VPI Classic wlutkeMy S2P distance was off by 2 mm max resulting in unresolvable sibilance. Whether 1 mm makes an audible difference? Possibly but probably not the problem you are having ...A 1mm error in phono cartridge alignment is a huge error - I'd exp... | |
| How much more power do 2 Bryston monoblocks use? At full power into 4 ohms, a Bryston 4B can can consume all the power available on a 15A line. I think it works best on its own dedicated 20A line.See: http://bryston.com/PDF/Manuals/3B_4BSST_MANUAL.pdf | |
| Tape-in and Tape-out ports bdp24For one thing, the tape out jacks are ... taken from before the final stage of amplification in a pre, and their output impedance is often different from that of the mainNot necessarily. On some ARC preamps, for example, the tape out is j... | |
| Tape-in and Tape-out ports Tape-out jacks are very useful for those who sometimes want to record LP to digital. And analog tape is enjoying a bit of a resurgence - especially reel-to-reel - so I'm not sure why you doubt that those jacks are being used. | |
| tape out for phono stage Why would you take a tape out from a full-function preamp to the input of a passive preamp? | |
| Audiophiles are not alone geoffkaitThe point is if the test results are negative they don’t mean anything. It simply means the results of the test are negative. It means no more or no less.Some blind testing does produce positive results. | |
| Audiophiles are not alone geoffkait is there really such a thing as a proper double blind test?Yes, I think so. But it must be properly set up and conducted. Even then, its results can at best only reflect the results of the test. Correlating those results to actual list... |