devilscucumber
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| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. First I wonder what happened to the speakers? Were they repanelled at the factory? Did some fool with the crossover? Thats a hard speaker to drive and a 100 watt integrated mignt not be up to the task. The Perreaux is much larger and probably more... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Hi Roger,I have some old Martin Logan Sequel II's which when repanelled no longer sounded pleasant with my Plinius Integrated 9100 (100w), they became overly bright and shouty. I ended up bi-amping with a Perreaux 6000B (300w mos-fet) running the ... | |
| Does anyone leave their amp and preamp on all the time? I have 3 Plinius Pre-Amps, a Plinius Phono Amp, a Plinius power amp and a large Perreaux amp and powered electrostatics with subs which all run constantly, Plinius recommend leaving them on. I also remember reading that the heating up , cooling ph... | |
| Done buying new vinyl Maybe we need a list of primo pressings, both in sonics and pressing quality, (I'm over poring over hundreds of pages on the Hoffman forum).I'll start with my latest:Yardbirds 68 (Very nice on both counts) | |
| Turntable sounds so much better when... Sounds similar to the "not too tight" motto for the tonearm armboard nut on the Rega RB300/250, if over tightened the sound became deadened. Another thing might be the MC cartridge sending vibration back down the tonearm (I think more than an MM c... | |
| MONO cartridge recommendation @ hdmThanks, for that, I have an Audio Technica AT-3 on an SME3009 non-improved and it certainly improves 1960's mono lp's, however it may not be the best cart/tonearm match. My other arm (Tecnoarm) has an Ortofon MC25FL, which is far superior so ... | |
| MONO cartridge recommendation So, does that mean we should be fine playing back a modern re-issue on a stereo cart, without Y-connector or Mono switch, as long as there is no extraneous vertical motion from scratches etc? (Assuming that both channels are putting out the same o... | |
| LP's... Do they sound better now than 30 yrs ago? I'm not so sure Rainbow has much to crow about, cast your mind back to the recent Beatles Stereo Lp re-issue program. The complaints about the problems from the Rainbow pressings vs the European ones pressed at Optimal tarred Rainbow as a 2nd rate... | |
| LP's... Do they sound better now than 30 yrs ago? Here's a take on modern remasters: https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/47sbx6/opinions_on_bowie_vinyl_remasters/ | |
| LP's... Do they sound better now than 30 yrs ago? Hard to put a finger on when the mass market players started sounding good, straight off the shelf, could have been around the late 70's with the Quartz locked Japanese players? Some of the old idler drives sound amazing when replinthed into a sol... | |
| LP's... Do they sound better now than 30 yrs ago? Here's another 2 cents worth: I have occasionally picked up a rare record in amazing condition at a thrift shop for a buck, whats cool is some of the 60's vinyl is really resilient, and old beat up mono lp's CAN sound amazing with a dedicated mono... | |
| LP's... Do they sound better now than 30 yrs ago? As for gear, someone already mentioned the bullet proof Rega Planar 2, I'd add the RP3 as well, these are plentiful on the 2nd hand market, and while not everybody's favorite, they are easy to keep tuned up unlike some finicky sprung turntables. T... | |
| LP's... Do they sound better now than 30 yrs ago? Having bought a couple of thousand lp's over the last 5 years, vintage, new, a few audiophile releases too. For a general new vinyl re-release, non-audiophile 1 in 3 has a problem, usually warped, pre-scratched at the factory, surface inclusions e... |