gakerty
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| Rogue Audio and Audio Research Comparisons While I love Rogue and have a couple of their pieces in my system (RP9 and Stereo 100), the best sound I've personally heard was an ARC 160(?) powering a big pair of Wilsons (was it Alexx or Chronosonic?) at my dealer. It was effortless and sur... | |
| Stylus Cleaning Rituals In addition to a standard stylus brush, I use a DS Audio ST-50 gel pad after every few sides, then every few days carefully with Lyra Stylus treatment, stylus only. No cantilever painting! I like the ST-50 cause it’s shallow and flat, and can just... | |
| The Synergistic Research Orange Fuse ... Further thoughts. Not sure if I want to get used to it. Ill give it one more week. | |
| The Synergistic Research Orange Fuse ... Further thoughts. Bumping an older thread. Though I’d give an SR Orange fuse a shot. I’m currently trying one of these SR Oranges in my Rogue Rp9, comparing it to a Hifi Tuning Gold that I got on closeout. I do not remember what the stock fuse sounds like (plus my ... | |
| tone arm with 10gr mass with 15 gram weight cartridge? I've used carts with 12-16g mass (16+ grams for Benz LPS) on my 9.5g EM Clearaudio tracer arm. I just had to use the additional counterweight. It sounded great, tracked well, and the resonance frequency as measured by the HiFi News test record w... | |
| Review of Rogue Audio RP-9 preamp @bugredmachine The RP9 is, I think, dead quiet. When I put my ears directly next to the AMT tweeters of my speakers, I hear a FAINT hiss, but that could be from my power amp (Rogue Stereo 100), it is hard to say. One observation of the RP9 is ... | |
| The sound quality from DACs - is it all the same? While I feel the measurements over at ASR have some merit (e.g. if a product is grossly flawed, or measures horribly for its price point) the conclusions drawn solely on measurement numbers are deeply flawed. It's been said a million times-- meas... | |
| Best cable for record cleaner, ever Nice. For even cleaner clean (like blacker blacks!) try a Synergistic Research Purple Fuse in your record cleaner. | |
| Prima Luna have released the Kracken (striketrough) I mean DAC @yakbob Thanks for pointing out the Musical Paradise MP-D2. I am surprised at its relative cheap cost. The Primaluna EVO100 is quite pricey relatively. How did the MP-D2 sound? It’s looking like my next DAC will be tube based, since that is more... | |
| From Benz to? FWIW The LPS sounds much better through the Zestos vs the active SS Pass XP15 that preceded it but that may be a function of how well the Zestos is designed, and its tubes. Thanks to all for your suggestions! | |
| Review of Rogue Audio RP-9 preamp As the RP9 breaks in (or my ears/brain adjust, in any case the sound has changed!) I am smitten by the sheer amount of detail and spacious soundstage this RP9 provides, without being over the top and/or clinical in detail retrieval. One would nev... | |
| From Benz to? @vusi_khumalo Thanks, is it a general rule of thumb that cartridges with lower internal impedances are more optimally matched to SUTs than those with higher impedances? There is quite an impedance difference between the Ebony (~8ohms) vs the 3... | |
| From Benz to? @vusi_khumalo Interesting. Why is that? The Ebony L actually has a lower output (.26 mV) vs LPS (.34mV). Or is the mismatch of the LPS + built in SUT due to something else entirely? | |
| 1st Tube amp question Not knowing at the time a load was needed, I've accidentally not had speakers connected when biasing my tube amp, but that was quick (1-2 min) and thankfully, no damage occurred. I wouldn't do it again. | |
| Prima Luna have released the Kracken (striketrough) I mean DAC I'm not a fan of the Primaluna style, but looks are not terribly important. With its well tubed output stage, how quiet will it be? That EVO100 like it would fun to tube roll in. I have plenty of decent to great extra 12AU7s and AX7s around. I'... |