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| Do Banana Plug Adaptors Degrade SQ? Some old JBL speakers of my acquaintance use spring loaded button style posts that take at most 14 ga. wire. These adapters from Parts Express allow you to attach any banana plug. Adding a few inches of solid 18 ga. won't hurt...you should see t... | |
| transistor pre with the sound of tubes Since you gave no system context you get suggestions that spread all over the place. A tube preamp is not a challenge to own or use. Dual triodes last a long time before degrading and they can offer superb sound quality even in quite affordable ... | |
| This is the list of the best makers of audio equipment. Respond if you disagree Professor Peabody, set the Way-Back machine to 1978! Audio Research, Linn, Nakamichi, Yamaha, Quad, KLH 9s, Ampzilla, and Buck bleepin’ Dent... | |
| The Absurdity of it All I think the OP has a point.I work in a highish end retail store and am constantly asked by colleagues and customers what I think about how one item compares to another, whatever it may be. I have to be honest...at 69 y/o, with many live rock conc... | |
| All NEW Paradigm FOUNDER SERIES...Could they be Paradigm's best speakers yet ? Hi,Your pre-release enthusiasm is perplexing. Sure, Paradigm is a company with a strong tradition and some definite successes in the past, but they’ve made their share of misses too, like any big speaker company. Why don’t we wait and see if the... | |
| Have I got the wrong amp? or the wrong speakers? I remember those Akai receivers without fondness. Find a Pioneer SX750 or Sansui 771, Marantz 2238, Sony STR6050, or a similar model from one of those brands. The volume control taper is nothing to worry about, but if you want to use the loudne... | |
| Finally found a space for the speakers I’ve been storing... and I don’t love them any more Don’t overlook the Revel Performance 3 226Be. Even more of that transparency and less bass bloom than the bigger 228Be. I presume you have subs to over the bottom octaves. | |
| Searching for a new CD player I don’t know of any measure of a player’s ability to read scuffed discs. Maybe a repair tech can comment on that. I think it has to do with the strength of the laser and critical focus adjustments that can be tweaked. It definitely has nothing to ... | |
| Trying to understand B&W’s trickle down strategy The cone on a 606 is made of the same material as the MR on an 802, but the driver is different b/c the rubber surround on the 606 has to allow for long excursions where the FST midrange does not. Also, the 800 series uses much higher grade crosso... | |
| Help, I do not want to make an Ayre, What the heck? It's a great sounding amp...congrats. The instruction applies to the REL sub context (in which case you leave the ground wire unconnected) as well as the less likely one where the user is distributing the output to multiple speakers through a spe... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear The track “Kucano Oro” on the MA Records release The Old Country. Features otherworldly harmonica from Howard Levy and superb percussion by Mark Nauseff, with reference SQ. The track “Kit Carson” by Bruce Cockburn on Nothing But A Burning Light. ... | |
| Replaced my Ortofon Blue stylus today via plug and play swap in seconds Only one addition to Chakster's completely correct remarks: for example, Ortofon asks $236.00 for a new 2M Blue cart, and $204.00 for a replacement stylus. That's over 80% of the cost for a complete cart, similar to the "re-tipping" fee for an MC... | |
| Vinyl on NAD M10 lower volume I believe the M10 has a preset function within BluOS. That should mean you can create selections of input source and volume setting to level the perceived change when switching from phono (coming in on Line 1 or 2) to Tidal or whatever. Non-proble... | |
| 15 foot RCA cables out of TT with no pre amp? I failed to mention the Onkyo receiver preamp has its own capacitance. If the EVO has 80 pF and the preamp another 80 pF you need a IC with next to zero capacitance...as the target is 200 pF for Ortofon 2M. Hence the recommendations for a closer p... | |
| 15 foot RCA cables out of TT with no pre amp? The effect of cable length is as a multiplier of the capacitance per foot of the cable. A typical MM cart has an ideal capacitive load for flattest response. You have to know the capacitance of the internal wiring of your EVO, subtract that from t... |