fsonicsmith
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| Still looking for a new Moving Coil Cartridge With 28,500 LPs and 60 years experience, I prefer the Dynavector 20X2 L cartridge. It works great with my modified SME IV, with the Zesto Allesso SUT as well as EAR 864 and EAR 912. It is so highly valued by friends and myself because it permits ... | |
| Leben CS 600 ( Dumper tube ) Tube rolling Ralph is the expert but rectifier tubes can change the sound in some amp designs. The difference stems from allowing the power tubes to see higher or lesser voltage. My Ampsandsound Nautilus single ended triode amp modeled after the HK 16 is o... | |
| Does a record player make that much of a difference?? I suggest looking at it from a slightly different perspective-which some of you are already doing; where do the diminishing returns kick in more abruptly. I also am disregarding base-level set ups intentionally (base level skews the analsis). So... | |
| Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker. Personally I feed this need by building. Whether it is speakers or cables, I find it more satisfying to make something than buying something. I encourage all audiophiles to at least once in their hobby lifetime to build at least 1 speaker kit... | |
| Dream Amps I Could Not Afford 20 Years Ago Now Undesirable The converse of this oft-experienced scenario is lusting after "this year's model". 9.9 times out of 10, "this year's model" will become the old has-been you can not believe you once lusted over. Krell was once CH Precision. CH Precision will beco... | |
| Speaker cables recomendation for Luxman L509X / Dynaudio Contour 30i I was going to chime in with Auditorium23 and see that jond beat me to it. They are amazing. I have five amps and three sets of loudspeakers and they excel with every combination. They come standard with bananas and are very difficult to get with ... | |
| New R2R DAC I have been very careful not to bring up SW1X unless someone else does. The reason is fairly simple-I just don't feel qualified to make qualitative judgments as to competing DAC's at any price level. But I auditioned the SW1X 2 SE with the USB opt... | |
| How important are spikes? Some loudspeakers benefit substantially from spikes. If the manufacturer has a good reputation and has supplied spikes, they should at least be tried. My Spendor D7.2's sound better in my room with the supplied spikes than with Gaia’s. I have hard... | |
| Audio Research S80 with DeVORE FIDELITY O/96 On a whim I recently switched out my Cardas Clear speaker cables with Auditorium. 23 and switched from the 8 ohm taps to the 16 on my Ref 80 S. The results are quite positive. | |
| Audio Research S80 with DeVORE FIDELITY O/96 @wolf_garcia I hesitate to respond at all. There is nothing in your response that calls for one-in fact it seems a bit irrational. Collings guitar? Pricing of audio components sometimes has a black and white border such as when Lexicon took the... | |
| Audio Research S80 with DeVORE FIDELITY O/96 It's always a good idea to combine overpriced components with each other. 12 grand for a couple of drivers in a box with a veneered front? Count me in! @wolf_garcia Try finding equal sound for less. In addition, all aspects of both ARC gear a... | |
| Audio Research S80 with DeVORE FIDELITY O/96 I have the 80S with a Ref 6 and the Devore O/93's.You definitely do not need the 160S, no matter how large your room might be. Pentode vs. Triode is personal taste. Triode provides a bit more depth to the midrange, Pentode provides more authority,... | |
| VPI upgrade? I almost never agree with mijostyn but this time I do in part and not in part. He is right, the VPI unipivot arm is a total pain for the average schmo, though my trusted set-up expert Brian Walsh says he can make them sound very good and he has no... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) @prof First, to answer your question Friend, it measured very well. Extremely well. I don't normally even read the measurements section as to loudspeakers so I had to go back and read it to answer your question. What most impresses ME is that ... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) I am not surprised that John Atkinson favorably reviewed them in the new issue of S'Phile. I am surprised that he a) spent three times as much space describing Andrew Jones' design process as he did with listening notes b) completely ignored his m... |