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| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? Sound quality is the most important thing for me.Violins should have a sheen but a solid core sound, like the real thing, bass should have subtle articulations, drums should have attack and resonance.After the actual sound quality, holographic ima... | |
| Turntables I’ll recommend something unconventional:Buy the cheapest decent used turntable you can find (Thorens, Rega 3, even a Technics SL-D2 for under $50 - but stuff plasticine inside the ugly plastic plinth! -etc), and spend the majority of your money on... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Kinks Greatest - Celluloid Heroes (RCA)Bartok Concerto for Orchestra (Chicago, RCA Victrola reissue- sounds good but anyone got a minty Red Seal they wanna sell me? ;) )Stravinsky Rite of Spring (Stravinsky/Columbia Symphony, Columbia)Bartok Music... | |
| What's been your turntable ownership over the years? Just inexpensive vintage tables, but I think they great piecesTechnics SL-220Dual 1225Thorens TD 160Dual 1009 SKII CEC BD2000Thorens TD145Technics SL-D2Rega Planar 3 | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? Ribbons and planars are very good, but take some getting used to, because of the lack of distortion that cone drivers have.They definitely sound less "loud", which I imagine comes from the improved transparency and reduced distortions. Now that I ... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? "Piano can either sound plain and two dimensional, or it comes alive as you get to hear all the tones and micro tones."I think you mean OVERTONES, not MICRO TONES. Unless you really like listening to an out of tune honky-tonk piano. | |
| Technics Turntables...really??? Technics tables got me back into vinyl and audio. I imagine I am not the only one.A friend gave me an SL-220 about 6 years ago. I used it for a couple of years, and with a new belt, some dollar store plasticine inside, and a decent Grado 8MZ stylu... | |
| Getting into Tube Equipment Don’t laugh, but I use the cheapest tube buffer out there - the FX Audio Tube-01 - as a volume control for my woofer amp in my bi-amped system.$30 for this tube buffer/preamp/volume control, and $650 for the Benz Micro Wood SL LOMC cartridge (boug... | |
| Phono Preamps with "balls" ? My Benz-Micro PP1 is not ballsy, FWIW. Refined, yes, and quiet, and fairly revealing, and smooth.Not sure I would want a phono stage to be "ballsy". I think I would want that further up the chain. | |
| Changes that made a difference (in order of effect). Bought a $30 CEC BD-2000 turntable two weeks ago, because I wanted the Dust Bug arm brush that was on it. And the Empire 2000E cartridge on it made the addictive purchase even sweeter.But I became curious about the table. It sounded decent for a 7... | |
| Ugraditus is calling....again. Phono stage? My money-is-no-object audiophile friend advised me - when I was shopping for a decent MC phonostage - that a tube unit would probably be noisy.Then a Benz-Micro Lukaschek PP-1 came up on a Canuck audio site, and he said "Get it!!!". I did, and I a... | |
| Review: Fx Audio Tube-01 6J1 Tube Buffer HiFi Preamplifier I’m using one as a volume attenuator in my bi-amped system. Planar/ribbon midrange/tweeters powered by a rebuilt Conn 7868 PP amp, and Tannoy woofers powered by a Nikko Alpha II, buffered by the little FX-Audio Tube-01. It works very well, the vol... | |
| Integrateds: Why do they all SUCK? I'm listening to my bedroom system as I write. The ugly old NAD 3020 definitely does not suck, sound wise. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados FLAC: - Stravinsky; Le Sacre du Printemps, Nezet-Seguin/Philadelpia/DGG 24/96 hi-resVinyl:- Stravinsky; Le Sacre du Printemps, Stravinsky/Columbia Symphony/Columbia Grey two-eye (1967?) pressing- Bartok; Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta... | |
| The ups and downs of tube vs. SS... I bi-amp, with a tube amp powering my planar mids/ribbon tweeters, and a SS amp powering the cone driver woofers. Best of both worlds, I feel.But I agree with the people above, like Atmasphere - low order harmonic distortion is the way to go.For i... |