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| Magnum Dynalab 308 drive Magnepan 1.7 or 3.6? mine took 90 days last year. Once you get them, take some warhorse pieces like "night on bald mountain" or like that uses full orchestra loudly,set on repeat, turn amp to preferred volume, exit the room, and come back in 10 hours... they are basic... | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-10A mod experiences? Being a DIY'er at heart I've gone ahead and made some changes which have been highly successful.1> for the line stage section, I have replaced the white CJ design bypass capacitors with like value Multicaps. I choose these because their physics... | |
| Headphone amp and headphones... ? wish I still had my old Stax headphones... Grado's have nice tonal color but no where near the transparency of electrostatics. But oh how electrostatics will drill your ears if you don't have a sweet amp to drive them. | |
| Gremlins Emerge with Switch to Windows 7 PC's come out of the box as a jack of all trades (or master of none). To get them to perform as a music server you basically are doing what any good stock car racer has to do... strip out the useless parts for a performance vehicle from the standa... | |
| MF V-DAC and power supply Stanwal, I'm sure that the VDAC is a nice piece of gear. But when I say base I mean a real challenge with multiple base instruments playing against massed other instruments... in this type of music lesser DAC's start to mumble instead of sing. I a... | |
| MF V-DAC and power supply Looking at your gear, I believe you will find the VDAC to be a short relationship... lacks the power supply for solid low base and complex chords. Consider a reclocker like the Mtech Evo combined with a DLink III or some like combination where the... | |
| Inner Tracks Sound Raspy on a related track, I highly recommend use of a record cleaning machine like Nitty Gritty with fluid scrub and vacuum suction. Airborne dust and stylus deposits hide detail and cause increased stylus wear so there is an easy to justify pay off. Be... | |
| Inner Tracks Sound Raspy the Pro-Ject Align it Cartridge Allignment Tool ($169 at Needle doctor) is very similiar to the Denneson tool I used. This had the virtue that you could lock it into position and was accurate regardless of the spindle, arm bearing center distance ... | |
| Inner Tracks Sound Raspy VTA is basically stylus geometry, groove tilt. Its importance is determined by complexity of stylus shape...a simple elliptical like the Grado signature only has to be approximately right. Other more complex shapes become critical because the actu... | |
| Inner Tracks Sound Raspy one last thought. Its better to track about 0.25 gram heavier than the nominal/minimum weight recommended. This insures that inner grooves, irregular records maintain good stylus contact. Many myths about lower stylus pressure being better, in poi... | |
| Inner Tracks Sound Raspy Im thinking on this one.. its not very typical and when I was in the business I did over 2000 turntable setups. So lets start with what its not1) stylus problems exhibit throughout the record2) alignment problems don't manifest this way3) General ... | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-10A mod experiences? Mod might be too strong a word. Rejuvenate is probably better, For example in the main pre section there are (2) 2uf 450vdc capacitors that have an ARC label and which show end swelling. So likely these need a quality replacement. Interestingly en... | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-10A mod experiences? I believe the 10A differences are all centered around the balance control knob which was eliminated in the last version. There is also a 10AL which had no phono section. The classic version front panel looks like a PV-10A but its tube complement i... | |
| Why is J River better than iTunes on PC? Jriver allows you to chose your output method asio, wasapi or kernel streaming. These are critical for PC sound optimization | |
| Dual 1009 : Is it a good TT to buy ? Buy the Rega and put a Grado on it if your objective is to buy once and be happy for a long time. I sold every moving magnet made a number of years ago (Before Benz Micro was in market) Grado was then the best MM, followed by Goldring. The Dual is... |