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| Need A High Compliance Cartridge You can buy an Ortofon OM5e Super for $79.99 and then purchase an OM40 Stylus for $340.00. That's a high compliance low mass cart with an aggressive line contact nude stylus. I sold one like this to a guy who had inherited an Infinty Black Widow ... | |
| Audio Cables: All the Same? As someone old enough to remember when Switchcraft was the upgrade, and who was present in the business when Noel Lee arrived, I want to remind everyone here that the principle reason there is a cable business is simply greed. I have collected man... | |
| Revel Salon 2 If you have a room in which they can thrive and are willing to set them up properly to deliver what they are capable of, then this is a screaming good deal you will be hard pressed to match, let alone beat. Highly accurate for real music truth. | |
| Keep light equipment from tipping up from cable weight? VPI magic brick is perfect for this! | |
| Sviatoslav Richter. Greatest pianist of the last century? I cast my vote for another Russian, Emil Gilels. His Beethoven, Schubert, and Chopin performances are unequalled in my opinion. Many other composer’s too. I would also mention Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, and for Mozart, Mutsiko Uchida. | |
| Starting Over and I need your help Of all the ways to use a Node, Apple Music is among the worst. Airplay is convenient but not the top choice. Qobuz is fully integrated into BluOS. Then get a linestage integrated from a company like Van Alstine and give it a whirl. An outboard DAC... | |
| Tidal removing all MQA The HDTracks linkup with Lenbrook is not a done deal, and may never be. They need to develop a service model and pricing strategy that is competitive with the established names. The need for special playback circuitry will be an impediment. I own ... | |
| So, a reviewer just said something I need to talk about. I still use early Rod Stewart and Van Morrison recordings to judge my system changes for this very reason…those records convey both a high quality of sonic representation, AND a joy of musical spontaneity that engages and excites me. “Cut Across ... | |
| All Hail the meek --yet mighty – NODE 2i I work in an audio store part time, and all of us are dinosaurs. We sell Bluesound and have had a hard time finding something better that isn’t crazily expensive. I personally use an N130 with an LHY LPS and a Mytek Liberty DAC via USB to stream ... | |
| Suggestions for testing a never installed, 20-year boxed amp. Pyramid does good work. And they are a Harman authorized servicer. | |
| Need recommendations on 15ft speaker cables My advice is to buy a high quality but affordable cable set to use as a benchmark before spending big money. Erik mentioned Mogami, and Canare is another, both available from World's Best Cables on Amazon, see: Canare 4S11 or Mogami 3082 Once yo... | |
| 12 wire compared to Nordost Blue Heaven Speaker Cable? As a long time slave in the mines of mid-fi, let me help OP with this. The Denon DRA-697CI is a very good mid-fi receiver. When it was current it sold for around $800.00 iirc, so it is not an entry level item, and has a fairly unusual feature set ... | |
| Difference between Bluesound Node, Node 2, Node 2i, NodeX The X also implemented the low output impedance THX headphone circuit and replaced the 3.5mm headphone jack with a 6.3mm. That’s in addition to employing the ESS Sabre DAC, which the other Nodes did not. As a front end only, the N130 should be id... | |
| Need some treble The B135 has pre-out and main-in jacks. Buy an equalizer. The Schiit ones are good, but a vintage 10 or 12 band in good working order is better. Audio Control, ADC, Soundcraftsman, Pioneer, etc. Check your local repair shop. Or contact Vince at a... | |
| When Was The Audio Golden Age? I think of a Golden Age as a time when obstacles were overcome and a spate of innovation took the art to a higher level. The mature vacuum tube era of Marantz 9 and McIntosh MC275 through MC2301. The application of Theil-Small filter theory to re... |