davide256
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| Suggestions please about turntable belt If the belts are cracking, the last thing you should do is clean it with a solvent (alcohol). Cracking means that compounds in the belt are evaporating leaving it brittle.. you don't won't to remove more of what keeps the belt pliable with alcohol... | |
| Cyrogenic treatment for CD's? Cryogenic treatment has value for improving structure/electrical conductance of metals so long as you don't undo it by disordering the metal structure later by heating it. Of value for wire, dubious for tubes that heat red hot. CD's are a reflect... | |
| What component is responsible for dynamics ? My experience after playing with various audiophile components since the 80's is that the playback source is the most critical and efficiency of speakers is irrelevant in the typical home environment. You cannot get natural dynamics from the rest ... | |
| Primaluna Dialogue One or Line Magnetic 218IA? I believe you will ultimately be disappointed if you don't upgrade the CD player first. Consider an Oppo 105 or Marantz SA8004. | |
| What should I upgrade? ditch the Xonar DS and buy an HRT Musicstreamer II. I've given one to both my college age sons as the best budget music purchase for PC audio. If you have enough cash left consider one of the Schitt headphone amps for headphone nirvana. I've playe... | |
| just starting - mac vs. windows computer source? For the music server novice, Mac seems safest. You don't have to be a software expert to get it right. | |
| HELP needed for 1. SSD = solid state drive, basically a memory chip drive instead of a spinning disk drive. No motor electrical interference and much faster so that multitasking has less opportunity for jitter introduction2. Im a PC person, so can't advise on Mac... | |
| Cartridge rings at certain high frequencies thats not tinnitus.It certainly sounds like a harmonic resonance. The source may be external to your system... i've gotten that effect from having a guitar or harp in my listening room and I've seen it elsewhere with a snare drum in the room. | |
| Anyone try KT 120 Tubes in Primaluna Dialogue? I'm using the KT-120's in the Prologue Premium Integrated, they replaced cryo treated Gold Lion KT-88's. The KT-120's have vastly better deep bass and dynamics. Can't listen to the KT-88s for more than 10 minutes before I swap back to the KT-120's... | |
| LInn Genki and Sonos - Adding a DAC I have the Genki... it was literally gathering dust while I used the PS Audio Dlink III DAC as the 2 were not very synergistic, emphasized each others faults and the DAC that was part of the Genki was even more dated. Now that I have the Metrum Oc... | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-10A mod experiences? I actually talked to a very helpful gentlemen at a shop in Springfield that does repairs on audiophile gear. He advised strongly against replacing any resistors in the phono section as they were all there for precisely calibrated RIAA equalization... | |
| Metrum Octave and 192khz? I took an inventory several weeks ago... out of ~500 albums on my PC I had exactly 3 that were 192khz. So after much soul searching I decided to take the plunge and buy the Metrum. And go figure, Eagles/Hotel California at 192khz worked immediatel... | |
| PrimaLuna Prologue 5 and tube upgrades most of the new manufactured pre tubes are awful for good tube equipment... I've yet to find any I like after prolonged listening although the Prima Luna tubes are a safe bet for a tube thats musical but not detailed. And the NOS tubes definitely ... | |
| Optimizing the Prima Luna Premium Integrated amp so after 10 days of loving the KT-120's my pre and driver complement of tubes has been turned totally upside down. The Amperex 12AT7's are out because of audible gain distortion, all NOS Mullard CV4004's now. I've rolled the KT-88's back in a coup... | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-10A mod experiences? sorry, busy with other things. So since last time1) in the phono bypass caps the 0.15uf obbligatos were nice, open sounding... however the cap casing is a hum magnet and microphonic. So yanked them out and threw in some Mundorf Supremes temporaril... |