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| VTL preamps and amps, co status? I can recommend LAMM and Ypsilon, as they have had very good to excellent response to buyers of their used gear. | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @mrklas While I have thoroughly enjoyed the Rega, I think I'll move to a different brand, just out of curiosity, if nothing else. The Rega P8 sounds great to my ears, but I've found that you don't think the sound can get any better, and then yo... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @billstevenson Thanks for the recommendation, but Miami is 5 hours away from me, and, as has been mentioned, dealers will peddle their own goods. (It may as well be NYC.) I was hoping a user had heard a couple of these turntables and could r... | |
| Soundsmith Strain Gauge Interesting. Thanks for sharing your experience with the SG. One comment that you made clarified a curiosity I had noticed on my own mid-level turntable, a Rega P8 with Linn Krystal cartridge: in works for one and two instruments, like piano, or ... | |
| Great Classical Recordings Any recording by Jordi Savall is excellent, but mostly on CD/SACD. He ranges the gamut from medieval to Beethoven. | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @craig The Sound Smith Strain Gauge sounds intriguing. Looks like @millercarbon has one also. With my Sound Labs and Ypsilons, clarity and transparency seem to be what I appreciate most, but not a sterile, flat transparency, just a musical clar... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @senza Thanks for that recommendation for two tonearms. . . I generally have tried to stay away from mono recordings, for the most part, but there are many historically important recordings from the pre-stereo (pre-1958) era that I might change ... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other No, I don't think I'll set up the cartridge on my own. @tomic601 Could you please elucidate how you would expect the TT to sound differently. Which of the three would be the most transparent in presentation? Thanks. | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other No. The problem is that there are no audio shops within 2 hours of where I live. It’s an audiophile desert here, so I was hoping to get some idea of the differences in sound between the different turntables, if any. . . To give you an idea of wha... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @solypsa I am looking at the top end of the manufacturers: so I was considering the Technics SP10R or SL1000R, the AMG Viella V12 (or similar), or the SME 30/2 or similar. If all the turntables are as good as another, then I suppose I would ... | |
| DAC - DCS Bartok or the new Berkeley Alpha DAC 3 It appears that most of the DACs are not set up to receive 2 channel input from a CD transport. They all have 2 channels out, but just various connections for streaming, but nothing for transports. How would I connect a transport to one of these? | |
| DAC - DCS Bartok or the new Berkeley Alpha DAC 3 I know almost nothing about DAC, except that there are at least two different approaches to DAC: a delta sigma approach, and an R2R approach. Are all of these DAC's (ARC, Berkeley, and DCS) delta sigma DAC's? | |
| New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning I just used my ultrasonic record cleaner today for the first time, and I will have to agree that the results are amazing: extreme clarity, transparency, lack of pops and crackles. I just used distilled water at room temperature, and didn’t even tr... | |
| Two surprising things I found that improved my imaging and staging... @captbeaverWhen I go to that Cardas site, it only tells me distance from side and rear walls, but nothing about toe it, etc. Did you just experiment with toe in?Thanks. | |
| Two surprising things I found that improved my imaging and staging... @sns I have a hard time understanding why anything between the speakers would affect the soundstage: the sound doesn't come from between the speakers, but rather from the speakers on each side, which, in stereo make it sound like the sound is com... |