hifiman5
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| Phono cartridge suggestions sought @dramatictenor. Congrats. on your choice. I am on my second iteration of the very same cartridge. I think of it is a very honest sounding cart. as it seems to play fairly with all frequencies in the spectrum and reproduces dynamic swing in a v... | |
| Abbey Road 50th Anniversary I was prompted to order the three LP 2019 Giles Martin remastered version after listening to the 2009 CD. The CD was really unsatisfying. The upper midrange was, to my ears, too prominent and there was a lack of spaciousness overall. The 50th A... | |
| Tube Rolling Advice for the Backert Labs Rhumba Extreme? Herbie's products are well designed and carefully implemented with materials that are musically friendly. I have Herbie's Tenderfeet under every component in my system. SO musical. Their decouplers are great for speakers and subwoofers. With th... | |
| It's National "One Hit Wonder" Day! "Brandy You're a fine girl" by Looking Glass | |
| New to classical music for piano - any well recorded, well performed Chopin. Baroque - Vivaldi and BachClassical - Beethoven (yes, he really was a genuine genius). Any Mozart (very tuneful and pleasant to hear)Romantic - any of the Russian composers, specifically Tchai... | |
| Best speakers 5k 10 k Vandersteen Audio Treo CT. | |
| You know it's a great day when... @roberjerman That's gonna be hard to beat! They are selling in the $400's now on Ebay. | |
| Interconnects and Speaker Cable, What in your history hit your pleasure button? @tweak1 I have all WW Platinum Eclipse 7 RCA'S in my system. Which WW speaker cable are you using? | |
| A21 vs McCormack? @cheeg I have a recently rebuilt DNA-1 Gold Special and it is fabulous. I have no experience with Parasound but know from talking with Steve McCormack that much of the circuit improvements he employs in his rebuilds now were realized based on hi... | |
| Phono stage for my system? OP - Skip the KC Vibe. Had one for a few weeks and returned it. Everything sounded like background elevator music. Ugh! | |
| Wow! Hard to believe how Good this sounds! @truman I totally agree with thanking those who have designed and built great gear for us. i recently sent such a missive to Steve McCormack for his outstanding work on my power amp. Let's keep encouraging these folks! | |
| can someone answer me this..... @millercarbon Hmmm. Must be nice to be THE authority on wire. We have quite a few folks here who make their own gear including cables and have achieved high levels of sonic reproduction. Who are you to say otherwise??? | |
| Turntable feedback I would strongly suggest that you locate your turntable away from a corner of the room where standing waves converge. | |
| Can you over damp with isolation products? If so - How do you know you've done it? Two extreme examples...overdamping may happen when you use squishy sorbothane under all of your gear. Things will sound lifeless and the bass "fat". The other extreme might be using Black Diamond Racing cones under everything. The key is achiev... | |
| What are some of the most underrated and overrated loudspeakers you’ve auditioned? @millercarbon What speakers are you currently using in your system? |