colin44ct357
Responses from colin44ct357
| What will a preamp do for me? Elizabeth...sounds like you are having fun...enjoy!How many toys do you have, 20/50/+++ I would love to see a pic of your systems! | |
| What will a preamp do for me? I rework retro for a living, most of todays preamps have 3 or 4 op amps usually nec5532's, popping a brown may help.Now real preamps should have a pcb full of top end analog components..not a single caterpillar (ic) as an old valve mate from the u... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD and cd writers cut memorex discs at the slowest speed,4x, they are still good 40 years later!I dont know if an lp will last that long...sounding as good as new. | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD My first styli was a shure encore, cost me a months pay in 78.Had an entry level pioneer pld2 if memory serves..a nick in an lp destroyed the shure!Thats when i went cda. | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD Do you guys float your needle in fluid..i heard such.. | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD Lastly if your lp is not one the first 100 off the press it wont be as good as the first 10.LPs do wear out after many years, even if you running super light.I know a diamond engineer who cuts diamond styli...X debeers SA, my great grandfather was... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD To each his own! No disrespect to all the vinyl lovers.If one cant afford a solid granite slab with a floating table..20k stili and cartridge..cda is the choice.cda, no static, no wear, can last for many years and good quality discs a life time.I ... | |
| If you could only keep 5 record albums, what would they be? None. | |
| Best Amp For Martin Logan Aerius i Under $2000 ML are one of the best i have ever auditioned...at the price they should be..he knew what us power hungry boys want on a cold night! | |
| Best Amp For Martin Logan Aerius i Under $2000 Drive them with an old school acurus a250 or monster rotel.had both and the a250 was the winner.had to build up 5 pin dual transistor packs using common collector with 2 ns and 2 ps to fix it...dont give up...not in my nature.of course i did all t... | |
| FM/AM Tuner under around $500 the analog transmissions are terrible in sa.the djs have to mush to play with..resulting in over modulation=distortion on fm. have called sabc a few times to tell them to lower it...works and back to distortion a few days later...gave up!I use the... | |
| What will a preamp do for me? Take your dac's output to any of the line inputs if your dac has a few extra inputs.have fun. | |
| What will a preamp do for me? I use blown up retro nads as pre-amps. Have a 3225 and 3240..they sound amazing! better than my Harman avr.remove the outputs, main amp fuses and blown components.remove the link from pre out to power amp and you have a nad preamp for near nothing... | |
| DAC's : The missing feature: Signal quality S/N 110dB, THD 0.0025%. | |
| DAC's : The missing feature: Signal quality If it sounds good, it is.I use a retro rotel RDP 980 and it does make a difference. |