glennewdick
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| Vinyl System Upgrade Path Recommendations I would say other then clean records your next step may be a better cart, the AT isn't bad for a starter cart (sub $100) but moving up to a better fixed styli's cart will open up your musical enjoyment, also try to find a tip profile that like a m... | |
| Upgrading preamp and phono I'd like to add a recommendation to you even though finding a used one may be hard, but new is not out of your price range either. I've been extremely happy with the build quality and performance of my Finale Audio-Triode labs integrated and highl... | |
| Best bookshelf speakers are you handy and can you assemble something fairly easy? then maybe a kit speakers is for you. i was thinking about entry level speakers and one thought is to build your own out of a kit. I'm talking a kit with precut cabinets so a little glue an... | |
| Have you ever downgraded deliberately? i've had to down size due to moving a lot, smaller spaces, financial reasons when my daughter got into an expensive university. every time it was a rebuild but with age comes experience and I've found satisfying music in all sorts of price points ... | |
| Monitor audio silver 300 or 500 a/ there is a used set of MA silver 500's on canuck audiomart right now. | |
| Monitor audio silver 300 or 500 a/ I have listened to a few of the MA speakers and I'm willing to bet they sound very similar with the 500's giving slightly more bass whole 2hrz worth. I've not heard the 500's so i'm speculating but from what my dealer says they are almost identica... | |
| Stereo EQ in the hifi world ...? if you want an SAE stack let me know I know someone with enough SAE kit to make about three of them.I diverge there sorry i'm in a humorous mood. but its true if you want.....Luxman made a quality Eq in the mid 80's that had tone controls with cut... | |
| Problems with Martin Logan ESL speakers accepting a banana plug? you could go to your local audio shop or electronics shop and get some smaller banana's and solder them on the speaker wires if they fit into your speakers. or you could order some nice binding posts from partxnection and have a shop replace the M... | |
| What’s in a watt i've been doing some research on the all in one idea and your needs seem to follow what I was thinking. The Anthem integrated seems like a winner from many standpoints. enough power, digital ins as well as analogue and then there is the room corre... | |
| Speaker match there isn’t many options in your price range I’m afraid and probably none in a full range as in 20-20khz you’d be doing well to find something 40-20khz. used Klipsch is your best bet for most bass i’d think at $500 you may find a MK1 or 2 in the o... | |
| how are you testing your own tubes? of course most of us i'd imagine just wait until they sound bad, microphonic or fail and replace. | |
| how are you testing your own tubes? Testers are hard to find in good shape and they they need to be calibrated to get the most accurate reading so best to get them checked at a shop. I'm thinking yearly for power tubes and every few years for low power tubes like preamp tubes and d... | |
| Speaker match your looking at high efficiency speakers. that amp will output 15wpc from what I googled. so anything 94db and up will work. Zu audio, Omega, Tekton I believe have entry level stuff in that range or very close. then your into vintage stuff like ol... | |
| Vintage Luxman SS integrateds? Please educate me any of the due beta stuff from the late 70's to mid 80's are excellent. The L530,L540 L550,L560 all Class A, and probably the best of the early 80's Luxman's and the direct predecessors of the current class A designs, if you can find one. I find... | |
| Anyone runs Euro voltage power amp or integrated with transformer ? I think you can get away with out the frequency converter if its just an amp and preamp with no digital or clocks. then just the step down-up. I ran a Luxman L560 Japan only Integrated on a step down TX for a couple years worked great, so did the ... |