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| Thorens 160MKII BC Grace 707 + F9???? The 707 and F9E or F9R are contemporary stablemates from Grace, fully compatible. SS makes styli for all versions. The Ruby is TOTL, and by many considered one of the top members of the MM pantheon, along with Shure V15, Stanton/Pickering and ADC ... | |
| Thoughts and suggestions please If you have a Node N130 or Icon, I would NOT go into a Vault 2i, but why do you need more than an SSD NAS to host your local files? Even a USB backup drive can plug directly into one of those Nodes. | |
| Optimized Center Channel I would try borrowing a 3-way center channel from Paradigm, model 70C. This is a size that should fit where your Kanta Center is now, without necessitating any rearranging of components. Dial in tonal profile using your AVP’s PEQ that smooths an... | |
| ??? Where Does "High End" Start ??? High End Audio was invented by specific people. Mark Levinson, Bill Z. Johnson, and David Wilson are key names. The former makers of luxury audio, Gordon Gow and Saul Marantz, Bud Fried, Jim Lansing as examples…all practiced economy to an extent…n... | |
| Walk-in soundstage Walk-in soundstage? Easy…with nitrous oxide! | |
| antiskate disc Clearly the XA bearings were primitive in terms of machining and design, especially the cockamamie vertical needlepoints with the silicone oil damping contraption. Later models like the 77XB I have used a simpler one piece part. I run an AT-71 on ... | |
| 20 Vintage Amps That Prove They Really Don’t Make Them Like They Used To I kept waiting for Ampzilla, but she never showed up! | |
| antiskate disc I read AR XA inventor Edgar Villchur’s “Understanding High Fidelity” as a young man, and his position was that antiskate correction was unnecessary because it’s not the skating force you care about, it’s the groove damage caused by mistracking tha... | |
| Bi-amping McIntosh MC2120 and MC2125 with Klipsch RP-5 I’m with Glennewdick on this. You inherited Dad’s amp, and you want to incorporate it into your already well equipped system…very understandable…but your system simply doesn’t need it. Put the 2120 on a shelf in a place of honor, or develop a sec... | |
| DIY Speaker Kits, a good idea? I have gone this route and built what I think are pretty darn good speakers using Dayton Audio and Morel components, and a professionally designed crossover, but now I want something new and they are nearly impossible to sell, even for a fraction ... | |
| Cable Quandary If your wires are equal in length, you can probably chalk it up to the speaker placement and how reflected energy affects your perception. Why is Valhalla 2 different from Heimdal or Red Dawn? It does have lower resistance than all of the other m... | |
| Long Run of Speaker Cabling Transparent Audio makes custom installation bulk wire…10-2, (10 ga. 2-conductor). Terminate with their bananas. Add their Biwire Bricks. Crimp and seal all connections with silver content solder, shrink wrap, etc. This will cost you an bit under... | |
| SACD over HDMI No. eARC is specifically designed to take a signal only from an ARC port of a TV. A player like your Oppo will not work. | |
| Open Reel Curious In the early days of my audio journey I spent time with a Pioneer 10.5” RtR ans a Sony of similar quality. We recorded albums and live radio broadcasts of concerts by the likes of The Dead, The Wailers, Little Feat, Robert Palmer…that were pretty ... | |
| Single way or multiway One of the leading proponents of a single full range speaker element with no crossover are Pearl Acoustics and Mark Audio. Both keep the driver fairly small to preserve some high frequency dispersion and so give up deepest bass extension. Fritz... |