clio09
Responses from clio09
| Best cables I have Spendor 1/2e speakers and have used the Alpha Core Goertz MI-2 Veracity cables with great results. I am currently using the CRL Silver speaker cables and they are working out great as well. I'm probably going to try the Purist Audio Aqueous... | |
| THE EXTERNAL DIGITAL CLOCK Better than the TRL tube preamps or the battery powered preamp? If so how is it better? I'd be interested in knowing since I have been interested in a Supratek, especially one with built in phono. | |
| How do you change a belt on a Sota Cosmos I had that happen to me once on my Nova Series V. I fiddled with it long enough for it to get unstuck. Not sure exactly what the problem was and it never happened again so I guess I was lucky in that respect. | |
| Turntables from 1-10: Personality 8.5 Beauty 12 Many excellent suggestions. In any case I will throw out the SOTA Nova or Cosmos TTs as new production options not yet mentioned. However, some vintage tables that I have seen of late sure look great. The Merrill Heirloom is really nice from a sim... | |
| How many us a Line Conditioner with a Big SS Amp Running Springs Audio works for me. Although I'm not sure if my Big Solid State Amp is as big as your Big Solid State Amp. | |
| best preamps in the 4K-8K range Herron preamps are very neutral. Not sure there will be enough warmth there for you. I used to own a Joule Electra LA-100 MkIII (I compared it in my system with my friends Herron) which I felt was incredibly musical with just the right touch of wa... | |
| Line Conditioner:To plug or not to plug Big Amp in Running Springs Audio line conditioners do not limit current. | |
| Which DAC for $1K?Benchmark?Perpetual????? Monarchy M24 has worked well for me. | |
| What's better than Oritek X-2 I would recommend the Jade Vermeil as well if you want to give the X-2s a run for the money. In my system the Vermeil and X-2 were very close. In the end I did prefer the X-2s, but I hope to be able to make the leap to the Jade Gold and compare th... | |
| Matching stepup to phono stage Herman, yes that is correct, in series. Sorry for the confusion. The spreadsheet I have does the calculations correctly. Thom Mackris gave me the spreadhseet and I believe the Galibier Design website has a link where you can download it. It is qui... | |
| Matching stepup to phono stage Rhbblb1 - if you send me an email offline I will send you a spreadsheet that I used that will do the calculations based on different step-up ratios in combination with the resistor values of the step-up and phono stage.As an example. I used a K&am... | |
| Crystal Cable - Have you heard or compared them? I have tried the Micro and Piccolo in my system. I normally use the Oritek X-2 or CRL Silver ICs from my DAC to preamp. I tried both the Micro and Piccolo and can say that both are very good cables. They are very neutral and let through a lot of d... | |
| Speaker cables from same brand as interconnects? I've always mixed and matched. No issues and its fun. | |
| Your top ten CD transport??? Dazzdax, it is not necessary to use the I2S interface to get best results. I have had excellent results with the RCA and XLR outputs as well. Using the XLR output the transport can upsample to 24/96 if you wish, which my current Monarchy M24 DAC c... | |
| Alpha Core Goertz MI 2 upgrade Mtrot, that was highly recommended to me by Alpha Core and I would like to try that myself sometime. It could provide the best of both worlds in reference to each cables sonic qualities. |