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| A "house sound" among turntable manufacturers ? This certianly appears to be tru with TW Acoustic. The Raven One supposedly sounds very close to it's bigger brother the Raven AC.The materials and bearing design and motor are the same.And I certainly bet Thom's new Serac will have the Galibier h... | |
| Have you ever deceived your wife-audio purchase My GF (who I live with) is not into audio at all. When I met her, all she had was a boombox from an ex, so she sees almost no value in high performance audio.Recently she was with me when I bought locally a metacarbon cable for $1200 (I told her i... | |
| How do you tell how dirty your power is? I say buy a PS Audio Powerplant Premier.It has a distortion meter and gives you percentage distortion of raw power vs. after it has been regenerated. Usually around 3-5% distortion from the wall, and .3-.5% after regeneration. (one tenth of what i... | |
| Why are we so passive? Why do some high end speaker manufacturers insist on external crossovers?Vibration!!!They want it out of the box, and the same goes for amps as well.Many of us like tube amps. They would not work well inside a speaker.I own small Genelec powered m... | |
| Phono stage with gain control? I own the GCPH and it doesn't quite have enough gain for my .5mv cart.I run it direct balanced to my amps (balanced is 3db higher than the unbalanced out) and I still would like it a bit louder.But if you have either a higher output cart, or are w... | |
| Raven One I was previously running a Well Tempered Classic with black damped platter, on goldmund cones (much better than the rubber feet) and with upgraded arm wiring. My existing cart is the Sumiko Celebration, which was on the WTT and now on the Raven.Wh... | |
| Raven One I just got my Raven One delivered, set up and expertly adjusted by Jeff at Highwater Sound. Though my hi fi is a bit jury rigged now since my preamp is back at the manuf. for adjustment, I can easily hear the character of the table vs. my previous... | |
| Synergistic New Tesla Line...Any comments? ViolinIs the tonearm cable internal or from mini din to RCA?I am curious since I have a Stealth Hyperphono (which has been mentioned here as being better than even Purist's top cable) on demo but am still waiting for my turntable to arrive. | |
| Spectron Musician III Signature vs VTL Siegfried? I'm taking this thread even more off topic, but since someone mentioned the PS Audio GCC series, I'll add this.I have a GCC100 as modded by Underwood/Parts Conextion. The top mod I have does in fact upgrade parts in the Ice modules themselves.I ha... | |
| Buying Someone's Records: An Ethics Question I think offering Market value is too high.AFter all, you are buying in bulk, without the considerable timeand effort (not to mention knowledge) required to sell theseat market cost.I have quite a few LP's I'd like to sell but just don;t have (or r... | |
| Audiophile TT article in Forbes The Table in question is a freakin' Caliburn. Perhaps the best table/Arm in existance. As long as he can afford it (I know I can' t) I say why not.And unlike a trickle down economy, trickle down technology may just allow me to afford Continuum's n... | |
| anyone compare Synergistic Tesla to Indra/Metacarb It's really interesting that so far after hearing both 711smillin prefers Telsa and John prefers the Stealth. That to me says both are valid and worthy designs.I will have to wait till my new front end comes in a few weeks and then try and ngget t... | |
| anyone compare Synergistic Tesla to Indra/Metacarb John- thanks for your response.Your response in the Sistrum thread was very helpful as well.However the money you saved me by not having to sell my Metacarbon for Tesla, you now cost me by having to have all sistrum stands!Seriously though- thanks... | |
| Top turntables? I don't think anyone has done a real comparison of a Galibier to a Raven, at least a Raven One which is more in line price wise with a Gavia.These mass loaded tables make it difficult to bring over to a buddies and set it up, let alone having the ... | |
| bands you truly miss Not too many are familar with them - but they were excellent - and Tom was one of the first openly gay rockers out there. "Sing if your glad to be gay" was such a great anthem - many a straight man - myself included could be seen singing along. No... |