dodgealum
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| Turntable Upgrade Suggestions Firstcut: I've been in the same boat for several years now. I've got a Scout (with the 300rpm motor upgrade) and have been enjoying it for at least a half dozen years at this point but always with an eye toward replacing it with something markedly... | |
| DAC for my Esoteric X-O3 SE?? Why would you want to use an external DAC with a player of this caliber? I would either move up the line and/or into one of their new "K" series players or look into separates (i.e. DAC paired with an Esoteric transport). However, I doubt either o... | |
| Why do my rolling stones albums sound bad? I think the only Stones album with even halfway decent sound is "Some Girls" and that one is tipped up hot on top among other issues. Another rocker I love who also records crappy is Bruce Springsteen. Love his music but sonically his collection s... | |
| Warm, lush and smooth interconnect help OK, I'll ask: Why do you want cables that are "warm, lush and smooth"? What are you trying to achieve? I'm always very skeptical when I see a post like this because I think people put way too much faith in wire to solve problems that are better ad... | |
| Mint LP Best Tractor---HELP OK, I wasn't going to chime in but Downunder is right. I had a MINT and found it to be a royal pain to use. Finally got the alignment of my AT OC9MLII just right on my Scout (according to the MINT) and didn't like the sound. Then I realigned using... | |
| Need speaker recommendation - after harbeth c7es3? I had C7's and wanted to move to another speaker for some of the same reasons you cite. I went with Daedalus DA-1.1's. You may want to look into the Athena which is slightly smaller but equally handsome. If you do a search here you will see some o... | |
| 5AR4/GZ34 Rectifier Tubes Did some more listening last night with the Create 5AR4 and Sophia Electric 6SN7's in the lineup. Really spectacular combo in my system. I am getting a very lucid, detailed and musically involving sound. The Create provides exceptional inner detai... | |
| 5AR4/GZ34 Rectifier Tubes Mofi--I'll be interested in your take. I could see how people could come to different conclusions with these two tubes depending upon their listening preferences and system makeup. You really can't go wrong with either. What's nice is that the Cre... | |
| 5AR4/GZ34 Rectifier Tubes OK Guys:Sorry this has taken so long but summer vacation and then a pretty thorough testing process has left me with these conclusions:I did a direct comparison of the following 5AR4's: My vintage Mullard (Blackburn), Create/Synergy and the stock ... | |
| Cables for Harbeth-Luxman match? Meiwan: I KNOW what you mean, I just disagree. Cables matter, just not nearly as much as people claim and this is particularly true when fronting a pair of Harbeth's. Will Au24's sound different than Cardas or Kubala--sure (I ran Au24's with my C7... | |
| Choral Music Suggestions Super guys--keep them coming. I'm headed to Princeton Record Exchange next month and will bring your suggestions! | |
| Unusual TAS bomb How many of you remember when TAS was small, put original artwork on the cover, contained long form pieces on music, culture, audio engineering and the pursuit of high fidelity sound and contained a very low ratio of ads to enlightened text? They ... | |
| Cables for Harbeth-Luxman match? "but you can certainly change the tonal balance dramatically with speaker cables"I disagree with this statement as a general rule and particularly so with respect to the Harbeth line. Unless you talking about connecting up with lamp cord any array... | |
| Where did you go after Harbeth? I don't think an SET amp will properly drive your SHL5's. I found that my C7's liked power and sounded best with at least a solid 100 wpc amplifier. Though I never tried a SET or low power tube amp I have doubts about this pairing given my experie... | |
| Setting Azimuth I haven't used it but I would recommend looking into the Soundsmith "Counter Intuitive" which allows precise adjustment of azimuth AND tracking force. They are currently backordered but I'm going to pick one up when available. Meanwhile, I've had ... |