dynacohum
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| The Sound Quality Of Commercially Pre-Recorded Reel-To-Reel Albums In the mid 80s I roomed in a house owned by a fellow audiophile who recorded a local semi-pro orchestra live to a hot rodded Revox A77 using DBX NR. His tapes were amazing. He used the Nakamichi Tri-Mic system with spaced super-omni capsules to ca... | |
| NAD M10 V2 compared to Naim Uniti Atom I agree with all the above. The Naim App is weak sauce, but as a Roon endpoint it’s a great sounding compact piece, perfect for your application. You won’t need the Grimm streamer. | |
| Integrateds: Luxman vs. Ayre? In my listening to Ayre vs. Lux, McIntosh, Naim, and Bryston, Ayre comes out on top for transparency, clarity, imaging, and control. Naim feels more dynamic or punchy, but Ayre out points in all other areas. This is based on their lower tier sep... | |
| Speakers - Your "Safest" Choice Focal Kanta 3, Revel 328 Be, both easy to enjoy and comfortably under $20K. These I know, and are “conventional” types. Ohm Walsh 5000 or Magnepan MG 20.7 are choices for certain types of rooms and listeners. | |
| Connecting a subwoofer Get a pair of Y connectors with 1M>2F configuration and run your existing RCAs from the Auralic DAC to both the McIntosh and the Sub in parallel….if you don’t want to use the Sub’s HPF, which I assume you don’t. Audioquest makes some nice ones. | |
| Technics SL-1310 Mk2 The current model SL100C is the No-frills version of the Technics turntable….no speed control, just quartz locked, no arm return or motor shut-off, but it does lift the arm at the end of a side, no built in phono preamp. Tonearm is height adjusta... | |
| Keb Mo That whole album is great. I used “A Better Man” on my demo disc. Another great one also produced by John Porter is Taj Mahal’s “Señor Blues”. | |
| New Ortofon website with tonearm cartridge matcher I have a Technics SL100C happily running a 2M Black LVB, but the online tool stops at Blue. How come? I think it’s not too smart. | |
| No sneering Please I have a Fosi V3 I got after returning an Aiyima 07 both used in my workshop system with restored IMF Super Compact 3-ways. Source is WiiM Pro analog out. I also have a Van Alstine Super PAS 3 and new build Dyna ST35 for comparison. I find the ... | |
| Speaker for 11x12 room On room placement I concur with Mesch…use the long wall. The piano maybe can stay, however. On speakers, the BMR Monitors seem ideal, but Totem Floorstanders like Forests are also. Revel FS226Be are another. | |
| Recommend a non-polite sounding amp / integrated I don’t know what Naim you tried, but to me your description of what you are looking for shouts NAIM. Try Super Nait 3 and see. | |
| Cost Incurred to Achieve a Vinyl LP Replay As a man of modest means, I have recently refreshed my phono rig with a Technics SL100C, Audio Technica OC9XML, and PhonoBox DS3, which together run $2500.00 at retail. My record library is much more valuable. | |
| REL .LFE input I don’t know the answer to your Speakon dilemma, but I do believe it is inadvisable to use a Y adapter from stereo pre-out to LFE in, nor would I connect one channel. The correct solution is a buffered summing circuit, but you’re going to have to ... | |
| Coax Often the gold outer part is just press fit onto the Jack pack. You really need to twist as you try to remove “high retention” audiophile RCA plugs…thanks, Noel Lee! If you can remove the part from your RCA plug without deforming it, you will see ... | |
| Going from MM to MC As a fellow PhonoBox DS3 owner, I want to mention that the balanced inputs only work with LOMC cartridges, so if the OP is getting dual XLR phono cables, a high end MM or MI is not a good choice! |