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| A Discussion About What Level Of Analog To Stop At no way I’m going to read all of that and try to digest it, but good luck with whatever you are trying to accomplish moving on | |
| TRAVELING TO JAPAN! Recommendations for shops for cartridges? i do have a phono stage that can handle lower compliance Compliance of the cartridge is related to how it interacts with your tonearm, not the phono stage. If you have a mismatch between cartridge compliance and the effective mass of the arm ... | |
| TRAVELING TO JAPAN! Recommendations for shops for cartridges? so back to the original question. You also need to consider the compliance of your arm. You say you are using MM cartridges so do you have a phono stage that can handle the moving coils some are recommending? If the phono stage can take an MC, d... | |
| TRAVELING TO JAPAN! Recommendations for shops for cartridges? And yet, the vast majority of all cartridges are made in Japan or elsewhere in Asia, Do you have any data or just guessing? I'm going with guessing. Ortofon is the largest in the world Rega is made in the UK BUT... this debate is really p... | |
| TRAVELING TO JAPAN! Recommendations for shops for cartridges? .. the vast majority of all cartridges are made in Japan or elsewhere in Asia. In fact, Grado is the only exception I can think of, even assuming Grado cartridges are made in USA ... Benz Micro are made in Switzerland Clearaudio are made in... | |
| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". I saw Miles Davis on David Sanborn’s TV show Sunday Night Music on NBC. This was near the end of Miles’s life. The backing band was The Red Hot Chili Peppers! I kid you not! How the mighty have fallen! How our memories are fallible. I just watc... | |
| Stupid Asking Prices- Why Don't Sellers Read Audiogon The Blue Book First? I’d never pay for the Blue Book when HiFi shark can show me a very long history of item sales -- not what they *should* be priced at, but what historically they have sold for. That is simply incorrect. HiFi Shark searches the web for listings. ... | |
| Stupid Asking Prices- Why Don't Sellers Read Audiogon The Blue Book First? ’reliable’ is as reliable as we choose to make it - that really makes no sense. It is only as reliable as the data and "we" have no choices in that Something could be sold out desperation, it could be sold as scrap, it could be pristine with ... | |
| If I wanted to make my own speaker cables, is this a good choice for wire? Canare Star-Quad Speaker Cable. https://www.markertek.com/product/4s11ft-bk/canare-4s11-star-quad-14awg-4-conductor-speaker-cable-black-per-foot terminate with some good quality ends as needed spending any more on cables is a waste of money. Th... | |
| Stupid Asking Prices- Why Don't Sellers Read Audiogon The Blue Book First? The idea that the Audiogon Bluebook is "reliable" is hilarious | |
| Preamp gain vs. poweramp sensitivity So gain does make a sonic impact which is why buying a new preamp with more gain than you had before will sound different for sure and most likely better. That is simply incorrect. More gain from that component may have improved the sound in y... | |
| My 30 Watt class A is louder than my 100 Watt Class AB? I’m assuming your preamp has a resistive volume control. If that’s the case. the "higher" the volume setting the less resistance. "Less resistance" where? You don’t know where the volume control (VC) is located. Is it the first device in the ... | |
| Best sounding low power (under 80watts) Class AB amp? @herman Wow! Nifty! Ever take SPL readings (with the 300B amp)? no, it can go louder than I would ever play it so all good there Have you measured how loud you normally listen? What makes you think you need 80 watts? What kind of music do ... | |
| Best sounding low power (under 80watts) Class AB amp? dweller 3,454 posts 01-13-2023 at 10:17am @herman What speakers are you using with your 300B? I have Klipsch Forte 4 and having doubts that 300B would be loud enough. Thanks you can click my name and see my system | |
| Best sounding low power (under 80watts) Class AB amp? Benchmark AHB2. Reputed to be the quietest amp on the market. Around $3000 used. second this, have been using one for over a year. I like my 300B amp better but the best solid state I've had, and I've had a bunch They just went from $3000 to $... |