gregm
Responses from gregm
| Replacing Audio Physic Virgo2 IMO the Harbeth Compact 7 ES3 is an excellent little speaker and an improvement upon the original LS3/5A. It is hardly a desktop item and performs best on stands.I had the Rogers version of the LS3/5A latter and, while they are still a warm nostal... | |
| Clearaudio Concept - Used - Careful Pdjmwj -- the standard arm is (a sort of) unipivot and you can choose to skip on anti-skating adjustment, which is fiddly. I set one up for a friend a few days ago -- he is using an expensive Lyra and the a-skating was set by ear & test record... | |
| Leben CS300 tube amplifer without load / speakers down the path to perdition.....Fie on't! But the cause is sacred...:) | |
| Need suggestion for cables of YBA system Suggest you use single stranded cable (or few strands), paralleled conductors, for IC. Low capacitance for spkrs. Now, as to actual brands: "Jade" (i.e. Audiogoner Jadem6) makes such cables; the top Nordost are also very good with YBA, but very ex... | |
| Turntable Choices My two cartridges are Transfiguration Spirit III & a Clearaudio Discovery. Tonearm is a Sumiko Premier MMTZimmy -- IMO, the arm is no match for either of your cartridges (I've used all of the above, the Sumiko on Pink Triangle). But it was ver... | |
| Can I replace a 24uF capacitor with 22uF? Can I just replace these with one 22uF cap without hearing any significant shift in frequency balance?Possibly not "significant" but it depends on the type of xover.Tannoy usually voice their products very carefully and I would urge you to just re... | |
| Audionemesis DC-1 VLE The SYmphonic Line was better. Better extension and foot-tapping "speed" as well as dynamics. (But at many times the price)The ML was the top unit, 30.5 (I think - it was a couple of yrs ago). Not surprisingly it fared much better with a ML transp... | |
| Audionemesis DC-1 VLE We just compared it to what we had in hand -- i.e. a 24/192 Burr Brown (it held its own), a Symphonic Line integrated (not an exact comparison), a NAD (which was inferior), a Benchmark (which was different -- somewhat dry by comparison).I had a ML... | |
| Breaking in speaker cables?? Why do you have to be a electrician to plug a cable in a wall plug?You don't. I just didn't know how well acquainted the OP is with electricity... | |
| Audionemesis DC-1 VLE I have heard it but not against the PS audio. It is the "steroids" version of a very popular, low-price Italian dac the DC-1 (which was excellent value for money many yrs ago). I didn't know one can still find these, supposedly only few were ever ... | |
| Adding Tone Controls? From yr description the offensive recordings suffer from "sibilance" (~6-9kHz).Unfortunately, unless you use an equalizer, there is little else you can do to correct this situation. This is a unit placed between your source & the amp (or amp-&... | |
| Breaking in speaker cables?? Louder means higher voltage. You might try it. It works for me when I (re) solder terminations, but the break-in only takes a 1/2 hour of medium volume playing.One European cable manufacturer "breaks in" his UNterminated wires by using them as a m... | |
| ROGERS LS 3/5A MONITOR SPEAKERS As mentioned, no "special" amp is needed. Don't drive the too loud in the beginning. | |
| Petition: Stop the loudness wars Thanks for bringing our attention to this, I signed the pet. BTW, Xiekitchen, the OP is primarily bemoaning the RECORDING quality, and secondarily the bit-rate -- not the medium.Compression shows just as well on vinyl, btw! | |
| ROGERS LS 3/5A MONITOR SPEAKERS What would you like to know, specifically? Generally speaking these are renowned for the sound quality and versatility. They were designed around 40 yrs ago, originally intended for use in the BBC's vans. They were supposed to hang from the sides ... |