effischer
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| coupling or decoupling of vinyl to/ from platter IME, the difference in image you are hearing between the 2 mats is almost entirely VTA. Even a very minor adjustment makes an enormous, immediately audible difference regardless of cartridge. It's the reason why VTA adjustment on-the-fly can be ... | |
| coupling or decoupling of vinyl to/ from platter As always, atmasphere has the straight story. I bought a Planar 2 new in 1981, and its glass platter was thinner than the 3. Accordingly, the standard issue felt mat wasn't quite thick enough to get the VTA into a decent sounding range. I went ... | |
| Are You Sorbothane Experienced? Like a couple of others in this thread, I've had good luck with my Sorbothane table mat (an Audioquest). Used it on a Rega Planar 2 and now have it on my vintage Pioneer PL 15D II. Made a bigger difference on the Pioneer because of its flimsy al... | |
| Favorite Genesis Tracks? Instrumental: The Waiting RoomVocal: Supper's Ready | |
| Any pluses or minuses to the older McIntosh mc275 compared to the newer mc275's IV, V, VI? MC240 would be another good choice for La Scalas. At 105 dB @ 1 w / 1 m, most <100 watt tube amps work well with them. I'd suggest you avoid SS amps though; they can often sound harsh with such an efficient speaker.Very loosely speaking, more... | |
| Any pluses or minuses to the older McIntosh mc275 compared to the newer mc275's IV, V, VI? Adjustable gain on the RCA inputs may or may not be a big deal for you. They're primarily intended to permit control of a system with fixed line output (e.g. public address), adjust balance or compensate for a higher-than-normal output voltage fro... | |
| Any pluses or minuses to the older McIntosh mc275 compared to the newer mc275's IV, V, VI? The MC275 is a great match for La Scalas or Klipschorns! Series IV, V and VI are all identical internally. IV and earlier have smaller spade-only speaker terminals while the V and VI have larger bullet/spade combo terminals. IV, V and VI all ha... | |
| Cables for rear surrounds +1 to almarg & murphyb74. Here's another chart: http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm#wiretable. I went to 10 AWG KnuKonceptz cable all around with soldered Audioquest spade terminations and picked up audibly better definition and freq... | |
| Upgrade from DV 17D3, looking for recommendations! Posting to this thread under the theory of "better late than never." I've had the Karat 23 MR RS, 17D3 and XX2 Mk II on my Sota rig. I feel the XX2 is almost perfectly neutral, totally revealing, has outstanding frequency response and superior d... | |
| McIntosh MI-75. Any info? Call Audio Classics @ 607 766 3501. Note that Frank Gow passed away a few years ago. | |
| Recommendations of good sounding newly pressed LPs I found Cheek to Cheek to be outstanding. It's on Streamline Records. | |
| When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better? This is long, so bear with me.Worked as a sound engineer for a band during my college years & got pretty good at mixing demo tracks from a TEAC A3440 down to a Tandberg TCD440A (still own that & it works wonderfully). Used a Rega Planar 2... | |
| LaScalla "horn" sound compared to "maggie" sound You are talking about radically different sound qualities from what you have now. I suspect you would find the La Scalas very bright in your rig, perhaps to the point of being unlistenable. 300W is far too much for that design, IMO. The stories... | |
| To monoblock or not to monoblock McIntosh MC275's @almarg : Thanks for your input; always expert and most welcome. For reference on SPL sensitivity, you may wish to see http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Sound/db.html#c4 where"JND in Sound IntensityA useful general reference is that the... | |
| To monoblock or not to monoblock McIntosh MC275's FWIW, there is functionally zero difference between a series IV and a series V MC275. Certainly not audible, but that's not a concern for you now anyway.Increasing output by 3 dB (the smallest volume increase the human ear can normally discern) r... |