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| Hey Sota - Whatever Happened To Customer Service? I find these kind of posts unkind and unnecessary. Unless you have been materially wronged and all attempts at setting things straight have been exhausted there is no need to tell the world that you are unhappy with the lack of follow up from a sm... | |
| End Game Turntable suggestions Well for sure check out Pure Fidelity. Absolutely love my Harmony/OL Conqueror combo. Choose a lower arm in the range and you are close to your budget. I’m running a Charisma Signature One which is awesome at $4K check out the review that just dro... | |
| Tube Preamp for Pass XA25 under $3,000 I would suggest an LTA MZ-3 or better still a used Herron VTSP-3A. The Herron will mate well with the Pass and Harbeths providing a light touch of tube magic but very low coloration. You can often find one within your budget. Good luck! | |
| Convincing your local dealer to let you try speakers at home Trying to make a decision about purchasing a component by listening to it in a dealers showroom is challenging to say the least. In home auditions where equipment can be mated to your partnering gear and listening environment are an essential part... | |
| What's your favorite $5-7000 turntable? I really like the Feikert Volare which can handle one of the higher end Origin Live arms like the Illustrious or Conqueror. Compact, well built, sounds good. Not sure if the Pure Fidelity "E" series (Eclipse or Encore) can be had within your price... | |
| VPI turntables The bulk of your performance gain will be with the 3-D arm. I replaced the JMW-9 with the 10.5 inch 3-D and things got much cleaner and more organized. Then moved that arm to a Prime chassis and saw less improvement than I anticipated. | |
| Bigger rooms better for sound? An audiophile friend once offered this maxim—“Big room, big problems.” I don’t fully subscribe but it is true that very large rooms can create challenges you won’t encounter in tighter quarters. It will be very important to select speakers that co... | |
| David Berning live Agreed, David has been a powerful creative force in the world of high end audio (and beyond). The ZOTL circuit coupled with his proprietary power supply topology are what make his amps and those produced by LTA among the best available at any pric... | |
| I've been selling heavier gear for lighter gear A few years ago sold my 80+ pound Modwright KWA-150se to a local file who helped me load it in his car and picked up a flyweight LTA UL that sounds better with my speakers and I can throw under my arm—no transformer! I’m ok with heavy gear but not... | |
| Break In Failed Agree, difference in performance after break in is minimal and often overblown here by folks experiencing buyers remorse and/or their ears adjusting to a component change. Most significant change happens within 50 hours, after that minimal improve... | |
| Need your thoughts - LTA 40+ vs Pathos Inpol Integrated amp on 98db speakers. To me this is a no brainer—you can get a David Berning designed amp that is bulletproof, lightweight, will run forever on a set of tubes, and is made right here in the USA or take a chance on an exotic Italian unit of questionable pedigree and per... | |
| My Amp is good but probably the weak point You have a nice amp I would look elsewhere to significantly upgrade, namely your speakers. You have way more power than they need so have lots of options. Not a big fan of Klipsch designs. If you love them great then maybe a tube amp will give the... | |
| Charisma Audio Cartridges @mgw Thanks for chiming in and reviving this thread. Let us know how things progress after break in. I’ve since moved my Signature One over to a Pure Fidelity Harmony with an Origin Live Conqueror. Interesting to compare the two tables by keeping ... | |
| Blue Note Tone Poet Series Wow, I've got at least two dozen of these purchased either at the local record store or through Elusive Disc and everyone is perfect. Flat, clean, low noise. These are some of the best jazz reissues out there IMHO. | |
| Downward firing speaker port and domestic issues Not sure whether a down firing port will bother your neighbor more or less than a front or rear facing port or a sealed box—probably makes little difference relative to the overall bass output of the speaker. The more air the speaker moves the mor... |