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| Isolation Platform for Clearaudio Performance There used to be a product called Neuance (shelf). It's excellent with light & medium weight articles. I used to sit a Maximum on it (and was happy). Try neuanceaudio dot com. | |
| Last 3rd of LP has High Feq. Distortion Sibilance (the "s" slurring), I presume... Adjust yr tonearm & cartridge. Then check the cartridge loading (i.e. the input of the phono).Only if all this fails, check/ scrap your electronics. Regards | |
| Speakers for the ears, eyes, and for the decade Dear Hatari -- First of all, choose speakers in the 95dB /1m/1W range and no less than 92-93. This should allow you undistorted peaks of 115dB spl, with the power rating of your (excellent) amps.Of the spkrs you mention, I don;t know if any can be... | |
| Orion Speakers truly great or too finicky You need 1-1,2 metres from the back wall, so your room shold be OK. ASAIK you can order the electronic xover assembled construct the actual spkr cabinets and assemble yourself. The plans supplied are very good.Sonically, the spkrs are, of course, ... | |
| Best Solid State for Avalon Isis Rtn1: congrats on your new toys!Stays on 24/7 - at idle, consumes A FEW hundred watts...No way!Please don't be discouraged -- but an amp rated at 1 kW with 75% in class A, is going to consume around 3kW idle or otherwise. That's MANY hundred watts... | |
| Turntable in 20 K$ price range - Design & Music David - to return to your question...I know the S Yorke S10 and it's excellent. It is easily superior to its smaller brethren which, IMO are very good indeed. Frankly it's one of the best TTs I've listened to.I can't compare directly with the Spir... | |
| Quality inversely related to power output? Agree & disagree.Disagree: on the strength of absurdity. Low watt amps are NOT better than their hi powered brethren UNLESS they sell for about the same price... in which case one MAY assume that there is disparity in quality.Agree: it is much... | |
| IRS Beta -- help Thanks everyone. Made a few calls as suggested and, magically, solved the problem (used a hair dryer on the membrane)! | |
| Older PURE CLASS-A Amplifiers Is it necessary to change the caps after many years of intensive use on a Classe Audio DR3B?Is it necessary? No, unless you're having audible problems (muddy, veiled, undetailed sound).Electrolytic caps deteriorate with time & heat & other... | |
| Are contact treatments worth the money? f audio (or electrical) connections did indeed provide optimal transmission: contact enhancers could not further affect one's music reproduction, but to degrade it, or have no effect on it at allYes, yes, but the connections are mechanical & f... | |
| Class A or AB In short, it's AB. | |
| How to reproduce sound of piano Dave (Sogood) saidDetlofI guess I just don't find subwoofers, that complicated an animal to tame. Actually the complexity Detlof refers to may stem from his use of 2x the product we usually refer to as "sub-woofer" (one as woof, the other as subwo... | |
| IRS Beta -- help Thanks Elizabeth.Hopefully it's the tabs you mention. I never checked this and will do so. | |
| Smooth treble the bright, brilliant and super transparent treble many people want when they are making the transition from "mid fi" to "high end" audioAgreed. However, I would replace "super transparent" with "super prominent". Smooth does, of course, mean ther... | |
| preamp with two adjustable outputs?? The big Mark Levinson |