dodgealum
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| System Advice Please Thanks everyone. My plan is to upgrade my table and cartridge at some point in the future but right now I want to see how much performance I can wring out of my Scout/Dyna set up. My thinking is that a separate phono stage or a better one that is ... | |
| Shelby Lynne Live Saw her late last month at the Mexicali Blues Cafe in Teaneck NJ. Great show with about 75 enthusiastic listeners. I particularly liked the songs she did off the new record. BTW, you can hear the bleed through on the tape particularly well right b... | |
| CDP's being dumped for hard drive driven units? In the 80's I built an entire classical music collection from the LP's people were dumping in exchange for CD's. Now I'm building an entire CD and SACD collection from the silver discs people are dumping in exchange for hard drive systems. I'm sur... | |
| Best alt-country, americana internet radio station Try WFUV.ORG (90.7 FM in NYC). Public radio station out of Fordham University. Be sure to join if you like what you hear! | |
| New Bel Canto Gear at RMAF Thanks for your input. It's the new 500 monos that have caught my attention are are in my price range. Do you recall how the rest of the system at RMAF was configured? Were the M500's being show with the Pre 3? Were they using the Bel Canto Dac or... | |
| "British sound", Daedalus, Tyler Mike:Why did you have to go and put it that way? Now I feel evangelized. (But I do have the zeal of one who has recently converted). | |
| Question about speakers... My Daedalus DA-1.1's use two tweeters to very good effect. The Eton tweeters are offset by 10 degrees so this may have something to do with their superior performance. My understanding is that the idea is to provide more uniform frequency response... | |
| Bel Canto S500 I spoke with John (the owner) a few weeks ago. My understanding is that there will soon be a MKII version of the Ref 1000 monoblocks and new M300 and M500 monos. He did not mention any new stereo amps but the focus of our discussion was on the tec... | |
| the best CD player between 6'000 - 10'000 $ ? I've been running an Esoteric X-03SE for the past few months and am thrilled. It replaced a Naim CDX2 and surpasses it easily. Can't say I've heard many others at this price point though. | |
| Help VPI Scoutmaster anti-skate issue You might want to take this opportunity to remove the anti-skate completely. As has been argued here and elsewhere, it is poorly designed, engineered and executed and must be modified (rubber "O" rings, longer string, ETC) to get it to perform pro... | |
| Man Cave or No? An interesting mix of responses. It seems like many folks struggle with the trade off between having a dedicated room for their rig and feeling isolated while there (from family, daylight, streetscape, whatever). Of course those of you with multip... | |
| Audience Au-24 vs. Empirical Design Cable Review Twoleftears:I believe my cables are the unshielded variety. I'd have to check the boxes to be certain. I will if you really need me to. | |
| great musician's audio systems For years Lee Landesberg (of Landes Audio in Chester, NJ) claimed that Keith Jarret used his (Lee's) speaker designs. Lee no longer designs, builds his own speakers so I'm not sure what he uses. | |
| Audio Research SP16 annoying volume control Matching to an ARC amp will not necessarily fix the "problem". You either need to step down the output from the high level sources as I indicated above or buy one of their newer preamps, such as the SP17, LS17 or LS26 which have more steps (nearly... | |
| Audio Research SP16 annoying volume control The problem you identify is one I also experienced, mostly because I am using high efficiency speakers. There simply was not enough flexibility when listening to high output sources (i.e. CD's) at low volume levels. The good news is that it is an ... |