hifi59
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| Anyone Get a Degritter for Xmas? I've owned the Degritter for almost a year now and have cleaned about 600 albums so far. It's an excellent and reliable machine but I wouldn't buy one for the sole purpose of removing ticks and pops on otherwise good albums. It's just "ok" in tha... | |
| Turntable and cartridge setup known for a marvelous bottom end. "I think there is nothing below 20Hz on vinyl record." except the frequency of a large warp on an album. Thus subsonic filters. | |
| Turntable and cartridge setup known for a marvelous bottom end. "Right now, the Pro-Ject Classic goes to a Pro-Ject Tube Box DS2 then to my AVR Dennon 45H for amplification." Put some USA Baldwin (Raytheon) 1959-1962 yellow label NOS tubes in the DS2 if you want it to sing at its best. I've tried them all and... | |
| Voyagers Being Delivered. Comments Please " I can only relate that for me the LSA is a clear step up from Parasound Halo A21 it's replacing, and while my W4S SX-1000R monos are awesome, I find the LSA to be smoother and more refined, while being quite competitive with the W4S on the botto... | |
| Disappointment with Pass Labs - I'm looking for something else I can understand the Pass amp distortion being higher since lowest distortion doesn’t always correlate to sounding better. It’s the fact that it couldn’t deliver close to its rated 4 ohm output. I see no excuse for that unless the amp had some unf... | |
| Power conditioner some say yes and some say no. While most good power conditioners can lower the noise floor, ime only one lowered the noise floor AND added punch, or leading edge attack, to the music when my amp was plugged into it. That was the Richard Gray 1200s. It’s a simple design with tw... | |
| Disappointment with Pass Labs - I'm looking for something else Audioholics recently measured an X350.5 Pass labs amp. It did not do well!https://youtu.be/uDbfwCo0a3I | |
| Buying used: Parasound A21 or A21+ ? I’ve owned an A23+ for the past year. Im using the preouts of a Yamaha flagship receiver in a 5.1 professionally calibrated system for audio and video. The Parasound is one hell of an amp! I can’t find any fault at all in its sound. It delivers p... | |
| GaN Amp & Speaker Popping Sound At Power On “Those of you with this amp or other GaN amps, do you experience a similar popping sound out of your speakers at powerup? Peachtree technical support stated that this was a characteristic of GaN technology.”No popping noise from my LSA Voyager Ga... | |
| Cartridge ISOLATION; What Say You? For only a $40 investment, I bought the Enabler for my $5k turntable with a $4k Soundsmith Paua cartridge. It works and work well. I found it to provide more focus and control without losing any soundstage. It also minimized any thumping going thr... | |
| Palm Beach Area Record Stores Check out this 12ax7 tube face off from 1999. The Raytheon (Baldwin)I speak of, received the highest rating with a score of 98! It’s the one that says Raytheon 12ax7 long black pate 1950s. This applies to the early 60s version too. Mine are from 1... | |
| Palm Beach Area Record Stores I live in WPB. I’ve been to the last two you mentioned several times. Rust and Wax is pretty decent and give good trade in value for your used albums. Selection is good.Top five is a cash only store. Best for excellent used albums. There is also ... | |
| Origin live Cartridge Enabler - a review @lewm….I did mention the cartridges used. Last sentence. Compliance with the enabler still falls into safe zone of 8-12hz. | |
| EAT E-Glo Petite Hybrid phono stage 1. I’m sure the Baldwins would sound at least as good in the EAT Petit.2. 12ax7 tube matching is not as critical as some suggest. My first choice would be to buy a matched pair though.3.Their are several pairs on eBay. They are from 1959 and 1960.... | |
| Origin live Cartridge Enabler - a review I have an enabler on a $4500 turntable and a $1600 tt. There is no doubt at all that the enablers made a difference for the better. First thing I noticed was that the sound of tapping on the plinth no longer went through to the speakers. That was ... |