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| Room Treatments and WAF? Long Rives, you'll be one of the first to know when the DVD is ready.Yes, we're hoping that we can get most diligent audiophiles to that 90th percentile, but that remains to be seen. I'm glad to see that you agree that above 50% is a reasonable target.... | |
| Suspended vs. non suspended turntable 02-18-08: Dan_ed said:"Here's my .02. Get the best table, arm and phono stage you can for now. You can always add a better platform and cartridge latter. If you're handy you can easily build a decent RCM for less than $100."I have to disagree stro... | |
| Need Audiophile Headphone Rig to Replace Sen HD590 I much prefer the AKG K701s to the Senns. I drive mine with a Woo Audio WA6 headphone amp. That's a very synergistic combination that lots of people over at www.head-fi.org use.You may not like them direct out of your computer as they'll reveal AL... | |
| Suspended vs. non suspended turntable Either design type will benefit greatly from a top drawer isolation device. You should plan a major hunk of your budget for such a device. Each level of isolation that you add raises the isolation at the cartridge pretty dramatically. I can see th... | |
| Speaker Placement Do you sit down and listen seriously at times? If so, consider sticking with the Totems, but moving them out into the room traffic pattern when you do serious listening, then move them back. I so something similar with my Vienna Acoustic Beethoven... | |
| Vienna baby grand Oh wow, you're asking for debate, BUT I think that speaker cables come first. I'm using relatively inexpensive Kimber Timbral for the interconnects with great results.I DO minimize interconnects by using a control amp (like an integrated). The Kim... | |
| Vienna baby grand With 400 watts on tap, I can't imagine that your Primare wouldn't handle the Babies very handily.My phono preamp is tube, but my control amp is total solid state. If you get into vinyl, then I'd say "yes" because you can get a nice tube phono stag... | |
| Vienna baby grand Generally, solid state with a relatively high damping factor and good power into 4 ohms will work best. I'm using a Conrad Johnson CA200 solid state, control amp to push my Baby Grands (around 300 watts into 4 ohms). I have a tube phono pre-amp, s... | |
| Treble of Vienna Acoustics Haydn Grand? Yeah, that Mojo guy is interesting. The fact that he sets of speakers using measurement speaks volumes to me. No one can measure there way to speaker placement, IMHO. He criticizes others for letting Sumiko place the speakers, but I think his thin... | |
| AKG K1000 Headphones & Cayin Integrated Amps 02-16-08: Super_agent_86 said:"My Cayin 50T with EL34 tubes, doesn`t have any headphone input!!!"We're talking output here. Doesn't your Cayin have two speaker posts? That's what he needs to drive his K1000s.Dave | |
| AKG K1000 Headphones & Cayin Integrated Amps The Woo Audio WA5 is THE favorite amp for the K1000s over at www.head-fi.org You'll get some answers here, but you'll get a lot more over there at head-fi They're "less adult" than here, but there are a lot of K1000 users there.The Cayin would pro... | |
| Suspended vs. non suspended turntable Yeah, don't focus on the construction theory, just try to get somewhere that you can listen to a few in your price range and buy what strikes your fancy.Dave | |
| Treble of Vienna Acoustics Haydn Grand? 02-16-08: Campton said:"Thanks...yes, but with the VA's have an open and airy top?The 3 reviews ive reading claim this is their shortcoming.They say the top is too soft and laid back...no real detail."Interesting. I thought I'd read all the VA rev... | |
| Treble of Vienna Acoustics Haydn Grand? There's always room for improvement, but your rig should work nicely with the VAs, IMHO. Remember, toe them in so that you just see a sliver of the inside sides from you listening position and rake them back about 10-degrees.Unless you room is rea... | |
| Suspended vs. non suspended turntable Keith,That budget warrants some travel,if necessary, to some of the best dealers in Asia. Plow through all the reviews that you can find. Stereophile and Absolute Sound have archived most of their reviews and there are several very good internet m... |