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| Granite Slabs Your wife is probably on the dot. From your description it looks like you CLEARED the bass. What you were hearing before was a muddy low-end that contained distortion -- and sounded loud. Your mention of a wooden floor strengthens this impression.... | |
| capacitor explanation? Wow Clueless(if you'll allow the expression), great info! | |
| Why MDF so Bad??? Of course wood, in my book, is MUCH nicer to the eye than the proverbial metal rods, pipes, shafts etc... MDF is a mixed bag of goods, not a priori bad; the thicker IMO the better.About the rack/shelves: (Not being a specialist, take my comments w... | |
| Review: Clearaudio Unify Tonearm I believe a different cartridge, lower compliance as you suggest, may make a noticeable difference. Twl is well versed on the subject. Nice review, BTW. Question: differences in tonal accuracy b/ween the two arms?Blcube: TT is c/audio Evolution, f... | |
| Accuphase A-50v OR Goldmund 28m OR Rowland 8TiHC? Cmh:Here's my experience re your quest... "...for a dynamic and detailed amp with plenty of balls and a little towards the warmer/richer side of neutral..."*Warm side of neutral: Rowland, then A-50v. Goldmund IMO is on the neutral side of neutral.... | |
| Sonus Faber Guarneri's Hi Mark, the newer version is supposed to present a more "benign" load and sound vs. the older version that was a wilder beast more difficult to "tame". It also seems that many SF resellers were having trouble selling the G's... Allegedly NOT beca... | |
| room treatments? is it the room that's bright? A difficult one for laymen as myself (maybe Rives could help here). My spontaneous reaction would be to tame 1st reflections on the side walls, and check for hard reflecting surfaces elsewhere. OTOH, as your imaging is good, I wonder if that's the... | |
| Sonus Faber Guarneri's To add a few notes to Dovetail's and second some suggestions. {Ref to recent pair with a "factory tweaked" esotar tweet (haven't quite grasped exactly what they did to it)}. Very musical is the motto, one of the best sounds I have experienced. It'... | |
| Audio Research sp 11 compared to the sp 10 SP10 vs newer stuff: I'm not sure I would readily chose a contemporary pre over a well maintained -- perhaps tweaked -- SP10.The sound is lush but bold and clear. It is inviting and charming with nice tonal "colours" (to my ears). Newer pre's woul... | |
| Sibelius Sym/Sakari/IcelandSO/Recommendation Oooops, sorry Buxter (not bAxter as I worte above). The Barbirolli/Halle, as Tweeker notes. Give the 2nd a listen too -- it's one of the strong points in the "package". Cheers | |
| Platforms: granite, marble, maple or other? Tonality is the wrong word -- sorry. What I meant to say is that instruments sounded less natural -- slightly "boxy" if you will... maybe related to the highs I lost? Cheers | |
| Sibelius Sym/Sakari/IcelandSO/Recommendation Hey Baxter -- a side note: didn't you mention s/where that you are (were) with the Iceland SO? | |
| Platforms: granite, marble, maple or other? Viggen-- I, too, tried plastic cutting boards under my power supplies (pre & cdp). Not as successful as you; tonality and upper & lower extremes went away... strange. | |
| Hovland HP-100 vs. CAT SL1 Ultimate: Feedback Kalan, I thought that pre-to-amp gain matching is possible after market, via adjustments (pre out or power/in) without compromising the design of the unit. Maybe a tech person could help (Sean??).Although I didn't suffer from harshness with a CAT ... | |
| Pushed out by a 0.2 MC cart ? Ad there used to be passive step-ups available -- I have a pair from Sony, they're simple rca jacks. At least, you'll know that it's the transformer you need -- NOT a new set-up. BTW, I fourth the recommendations above.Also BTW, I used to have a P... |