dhcod
Responses from dhcod
| Oldest piece of gear you own Since I sold my 1970 Quad ESLs, it's my Advent 300. | |
| Com'on...confess.......... Eels "Beautiful Freak." It's the only vinyl copy I've ever seen! | |
| Your first amp? Dynaco 70. I had a TransAudio receiver which was a Pacific Stereo house brand before it when I was 12 but I don't really count it. As soon as I understood that the equipment choice affected the sound, I immediately bought Dynaco. I did however end... | |
| I need help and phonostage suggestions That's a good point, Bob, about using only the MM side of these. I have one of your step-ups and it's fantastic. Makes my Hagerman Coronet really play out of it's league. | |
| I need help and phonostage suggestions Bob, to be fair, I don't think "can't imagine any other phono stage sounding much better at any price" is relevant unless you've listened to the Manley Steelheads and the ASR Basis and up to things like the Allnic 3000 or Aesthetix Lo to name a fe... | |
| Dynavector DV20x2H cart for MM phono stage ? I think he's talking about a full function with phono. The A21 an amplifier. There are a lot of great preamps out there available on the used market where you get a great amount for your money. ARC SP 16 or 17 is a great value used. You can often ... | |
| Dynavector DV20x2H cart for MM phono stage ? My friend uses it with the built in MM phono pre of a Rega Brio R and it sounds great. | |
| Need more outlets You can also call an electrician. It was cheaper than I expected to turn a single outlet to 8 and I used the high quality outlets that I wanted.... | |
| Best preamp 2k or under, new or used I would add a used Herron VTSP-1/166 which is about $1500. It changed my listening life. | |
| Peak listening levels- I listen near field so I'm averaging 60 and peaking at 70 ish. Maybe I'll push it to 75-78 but rarely. | |
| Prima Luna vs jolida Don't forget about Rogue. Great sounding amps, really good value and US made. They also offer the best customer service I've seen. | |
| Why No Power Button on Some Phono Stages? I keep everything that doesn't have a tube on all the time, including the power supply for my turntable. I notice that when I turn things off for vacation, it takes a day or two for thing to go back to sounding their best. | |
| AS Challenger mk 2 vs. Avid Diva 2 sp vs. Rega P9 Please by the Rega wall shelf for your P9. It made a huge difference on my P25 and I heard a P9 with and without it in a friends system and it was surreal the difference it made. | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? I used to think my ARC D70MK2 was just right. Beat all competitors under $5 in my system but then I heard the Joule Stargates. 25W of SET beauty. Almost a Lamm knock-off, Joule was trying to get OTL sound from SET and they were very successful at ... | |
| Your best ''outstanding'' products in last 5 yrs? Herron Audio VTPH-1/166. Wow. Night and day over my old passive. Well Tempered Simplex. After toying with tables for years from LP12s to Michell Orbes to Amazon Model Ones, the Simplex just sounds better than those tables. |