crustycoot
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| Veiled 'wet blanket' sound from tweeters PM-1s are very low efficiency mini-monitors with only 84dB sensitivity. The RA 1570 has 120 wpc...enough for a small room at medium volume with no clipping....but if you get carried away and overdrive tha amp you can damage the tweeter or crossov... | |
| Recommendations for a modestly priced analog system Gonna put in my rec for a Well Tempered table like Amadeus GTA with a Soundsmith or Clearaudio MM cart. Once set up, a WTT is the most no-stress player in life. With this you have budget for a preamp upgrade. | |
| Is this the solution to LP static issues?? Seems to be! In the late 1987 I bought a Well Tempered TT/TA with an acrylic platter, no mat, and a vicous oil damped main bearing and tonearm bearing. Ever since then I have NEVER ONCE experienced any static buildup, static discharges or any of the many othe... | |
| Bluesound Node 2i digital output problems... To my knowledge, Sonos supports Bandcamp. | |
| BlueSound Stinks(!), anyone? I went through a monthlong period where I got constant error messages on my BluOS app. Coincided with an upgrade from conventional network to Eero mesh. Hours of phone support calls to Bluesound, RCN, Eero later, one support person from Eero final... | |
| Preamp recommendation Doesn't Van Alstine have some items the OP might look into? The FET/valve CFR is $2099 w/o phono. Seems worth a look. I found a C-J PV-11 in good working order and my preamp search is over. | |
| tough choices crustycoot127 postsBryston 14B3 x 2, then top off with an Ayre VXR-Twenty...around $50K USD. | |
| DACs and Transports--do they still go together? Black Ice has a player with full functionality...CD transport with Tos/Coax & AES/EBU XLR outputs, DAC with Asynchronous USB, Tos & Coax inputs, and a built-in 12AX7 output stage for use as full CD player or to decode a streamer. Three mi... | |
| MM Cartridge Talk My all time favorite MM/MI was a Sonus Blue Label (on an LP12/Keith Monks arm in the mid-70's). l recently found a NOS Grace F9 Ruby, fitted to my WTTT/WTTA, but I'm eyeing a new toy...Sumiko Amethyst or Grado Master3 or maybe a Benz Micro Ace H.... | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! Isn't the aim of anti-skate to prevent the mistracking that would occur if unequal groove-wall contact was applied during highly modulated passages? Isn’t this solvable by a small increase in downforce such that the “weak side” never fell below th... | |
| Looking for more detail in a speaker I too am unimpressed with GE Triton Ones, having worked at a dealership for several years. At that store, Paradigm was my go-to. Now I will mention the Revel F208, a big beefy floorstander with great detail, clarity, low end sock, and a reasonabl... | |
| Why is black so popular for components? In 1973, when I started out in HiFi, there was considerable variation in the color scheme of products. Yamaha launched their line with a brushed aluminum, a clean new look, and that became trendy, with Pioneer particularly following...albeit with... | |
| Is 1990's equipment vintage? I agree with Panzrwagn in principle, but disagree on some details. There are more highly sought-after 1970-era Japanese electronics than the Marantz models he mentioned...Sansui 8 Deluxe and most AU/TU separates, Pioneer’s SX1010, SX980 and siblin... | |
| How to damper booming bass... All the comments about speaker placement are well considered. But it’s worth noting that loudness controls or buttons are rarely well calibrated to do what they are intended to do. The best of them are either rotary controls as on many Yamaha mode... | |
| Internet radio for Luddites The Yamaha WX-C50 is like a cheaper version of the Node, uses MusicCast and has presets you access using the app. But the Node has presets that can be selected with their optional remote control. Once you register your up to 40 presets in the Bl... |