davide256
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| Opinions Wanted on changing Turntable Kiko, if you use a separate suspension tuned to the mass of the TT, that should give you audible benefits. The limiting factor is the motor and in general its best for the platter and arm assembly to be suspended independent of the motor so that a... | |
| Opinions Wanted on changing Turntable The turntable serves two major tasks. The easiest task is to turn the record at correct speed and do so introducing the least amount of vibration into the platter and arm assembly. The harder task, the one that makes the big difference if the abov... | |
| Opinions Wanted on changing Turntable You need to improve the physics of your turntable to make a major difference. Suspension turntables are where you should look if you want to make significant improvement (Linn, Sota, Goldmund, etc). Age of the turntable is irrelevant if its taken ... | |
| SGC Vortexbox Audiophile If you use DLNA the SOTM usb card is wasted expense. | |
| Best of current 12ax7? Would the PSvane's sound better than the EI 12AX7's? I have those in a CJ preamp phono section, was contemplating getting actual Telefunkens. | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-10A mod experiences? The Auricap XO's didn't last 2 weeks , bland and uninteresting. I've also tried using Rel Teflon 0.22uf bypass caps for the Rel 2uf thetas but they sound less dynamic, less fluid on vocals compared to when the Clarity MR caps are in as bypass caps... | |
| Magnepan 1.7s in a 10x13' dedicated room? I have 1.7's and wouldn't do it. For starters you need the speakers 3-5 feet away from the wall and you want to be at least 8-10 feet away from the speakers. So without even thinking about sound, the physical layout doesn't work. Go with the small... | |
| primaluna gear, avalon eidolon speakers, cardas On the Prima Luna power amps, they can sound even better if you go to the KT-120's vs KT-88's | |
| Optimizing the Prima Luna Premium Integrated amp The VCap CU's have been installed now about 5 days and I have about 20 hours on them. This is a very different experience than other capacitors, gobs of impressive but natural background detail. Oddly they seem to require more power for same volum... | |
| Is it possible for a record to be too loud? The most common mistake with a phono cartridge is to set tracking force at the lightest end of the cartridge spec. Set the catridge at the upper end of the range and see if the problem goes away. You do damage to stylus and record with mistracking... | |
| Streamer and DAC question No effort required to get good results with DLNA/UPnP streaming vs massive PITA optimizing a computer for asynch USB with unpredictable results. So go the streamer route for easiest success.Check out the Rendu and keep you eyes out for when the Au... | |
| Music server for a newbie I prefer separates to minimize the cost of technology obsolesence. To me that means the ideal setup is1. PC for ripping2. NAS for storage3. Streamer for playback, control and digital out4. DACA PC is the last device I want to use for 1-3 combined.... | |
| Optimizing the Prima Luna Premium Integrated amp Back to this thread after a while. In the past year I have made the following changes1) the front 0.22UF caps are now clarity CAP MR's2) the follower 0.1UF caps are Rel CU caps with 0.01 TFT vCAP bypass caps3) the power tube 0.22UF caps remain Rel... | |
| Music server for a newbie Consider instead a Linn or NAIM streamer along with purchase of a Synology or QNAP NAS. These are basically plug and play setup,their only gap is they don't do DSD yet and they should have better future resale than a music server. | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-10A mod experiences? I've grown suspicious that the Rel Thetas are behind why female vocalists in the same octave range sound sibilant, a kind of "glare" that was there before but muted... now with the MR bypass caps that glare can't hide. One of the pains of doing CA... |