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| A "Downgrade" that proved to be a spectacular "Upgrade" ------- Just recently My friend bought a used Project Tube Phono Stage D2, came with 2 sets of matched tubes, different respected brands Hooks it up with his expensive name brand cables. Sounded bad. Tested the tubes with big Jackson Tube Tester I gave ... | |
| Anxiety help needed. New instal of Hana ML OP, could you select a photo or two, show us what yours looks like: do a google search ’crooked stylus’, select images select/enlarge appropriate image(s) right click, copy image address, insert the images (top bar, 6th icon) ................... | |
| Horns with good timbre and tonality? 1st, know the Horn's Angle of Dispersion Some horns are designed for wide horizontal dispersion, say big room, stadiums, and many horn speakers orient the horns that way, not best for home listening which wants narrow dispertion for tight imaging... | |
| Female vocals This is another reason I love level controls for individual drivers. BASIC: Use SPL meter on tripod, test tones: get best balance, individual speaker drivers, then re-adjust when both playing IN THAT SPACE. Do some, go to bed, finish in the morni... | |
| Anxiety help needed. New instal of Hana ML you want it ’right’ not only for sound, but for proper contact down in/with the groove walls, reducing wear to the grooves and the stylus. buy yourself one of these mirrors which is the thickness of an lp https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07T31... | |
| looking for an integrated amp in the $1500 range "Lower volume not so much" How low? Do you think you may be in the low volume region whereby some Bass Boost is needed (by all of us)? Fletcher-Munson analysis, and solutions exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour In the ol... | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? lonemountain "Passive Bi-Amping Passive bi-amping is what you typically see when bi-amping is discussed. It’s the most common. With Passive bi-amping, you are still using the crossover parts of your speaker to send the correct frequencies to eac... | |
| At what price is one considered an Audiophile. When your mate leaves and you don't even notice. | |
| CD/ SACD advice needed OP did you try a laser cleaning disc? My friend had trouble for YEARS with an Oppo player I gave him, he used for transport, but the laser still has to read the data. His was erratic. YEARS he didn't get one. Finally I bring mine, 30 secs later... | |
| CD/ SACD advice needed yyzsantabarbara you are ahead of most people. I am soooooo glad I love the sound of my Sony xa-5400's internal DAC and the salad of ingredients Sony included, both CD and SACD. The darn thing cost as much used as it did new 10 years ago. Sell... | |
| CD/ SACD advice needed MOST sacd/cd players digital output is for CD only. SACD advanced DSD 64 output to external DAC is not possible. Thus, to hear the SACD disc, you use the unit’s internal DAC, which means, transport is one thing, internal DAC and sacd/cd laser re... | |
| CD/ SACD advice needed what model cd player are you having trouble with? | |
| CD/ SACD advice needed lasers get weak, based on hours used. some units have complete replacement head assemblies like my used one does. Some get dust on the laser surface, a cleaning solves it. I have used one of these for many years, my and friends units. fixed some, ... | |
| Tube Preamps Should Have This Feature I often advise getting your own tube tester. All my tubes, preamp; rectifier; power: take less than 30 seconds to warm up to measure their strength. Wait another 30, another minute, no change, i.e. they are ready to go pretty darn quick. Perhaps... | |
| Phono preamp, all suggestions welcome My experience: temporary use of a $14. Pyle phono gizmo, just to get playing while researching. tried highly regarded iFi thingy, $14. pyle sounded better. Returned tried Cambridge Duo, $14. Pyle sounded better. Returned ANYTHING phono: get fr... |