davide256
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| I need help diagnosing a sibilant problem on vinyl John_tracy, thanks that's good information and timely. The phono section of my CJ pre amp has a noisy channel and since that's acted up I've been thinking of finally tossing in the towel on Grado Signatures and going to a Dynavector MC setup. So I... | |
| I need help diagnosing a sibilant problem on vinyl that would be boring after having done TT setups professionally for 4 years in the 80's. Far more interesting is reading techniques for arm bearing friction optimization, tone arm wand rigidity and arm resonance damping technology. Tonearm cartrid... | |
| Still mystified by mega expensive power cords My impression is this part of audio still lives in the midieval world of blind acceptance where the users don't seem willing to stand up and demand progress to at least the age of enlightenment where you have to at least show empirical principles ... | |
| New KT150 tubes? The KT-120s sound fine but the internals of 1 were clearly not given a good visual QC... the posts (anode?) for the vertical glowing conductors are shorter above the top mica plate than the other 3 and guaranteed that when circuit protection cuts ... | |
| New KT150 tubes? will keep my fingers crossed that these will be better quality and can be used in place of KT-120's. Love the sound of the KT-120 but quality of manufacturing precision is erratic compared to the GL KT-88's they retired for my amp. Given what we s... | |
| DLNA Renderers: Sonore Rendu vs Moon Mind? Bump.I got a brief listen to the Moon MiND at a dealer and was less than impressed but who knows, their controller setup may have been not so hot. The Naim Network Player options on the other hand were worth some excitement but at a much higher pr... | |
| I need help diagnosing a sibilant problem on vinyl give me a MC any day of the week over a MM in playing an LP with minor surface defects... a good MC will be a relaxed sound as it plays through a defect whereas the good MM will make you jump from the high frequency spike. I call that sibilance.Tr... | |
| Replacing Turntable RCA cables the B&O turntables were a proprietary slim design. I don't think you would be able to safely tinker with the arm unless you were a B&O shop. While they were mechanically excellent, they could only use B&O cartridges which is very limit... | |
| Looking to add warmth Altering the tonal balance doesn't create warmth.... boy how I hated all those equalizers they tried to sell audiophiles in the 80's. What creates warmth is a system that in the midrange reproduces cleanly all the harmonic overtones for an instrum... | |
| Looking to add warmth +1 to the Pre. I've tried DAC to amp twice and both times found input through pre amp was better. | |
| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D there is no right or wrong here. Life is full of compromises unless you are embarrassingly rich.. you just have to understand within what you can afford to spend what your compromises are. I have heard the Modwright integrated amp (SS)with the Mod... | |
| Am I headed down the road to ruin here? You should find that if you rip your CD's to uncompressed format that they sound via asynch USB generally better than played as disc via the CD player if both inputs are passing through the CD player DAC section. Low bass should be where you notic... | |
| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D I suspect we all listen for different things. My experience has been that tubes and solid state do different things well at the lower end of price then struggle to converge at the higher endSolid state has dynamics, biting detail, can rock the hou... | |
| Is jitter an issue? Streaming to ntwkd receiver. I found DLNA to be better than asynch USB. Here's my recommendation1) make sure your audio connectivity is hardwired Ethernet, not wireless between PC as digital media controller, any NAS and the Denon as digital media renderer... it matters2) fol... | |
| Looking to add warmth "Warmth" is a curious thing, to me I equate it to richness and vibrancy in mid range tone color. My experience was that it took synergy to get it and that you don't have a prayer if its not supported by the DAC. You would think an all tube solutio... |