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| GRADO CARTRIDGE & TONEARM COMPATIBILITY Greetings to all, I recently got a Grado Platinum3 to use on my Graham 1.5c tonearm. Almost immediately, I noticed that the cartridge and arm would appear to “shimmy” on certain recordings. After doing some research, I found out about the “dre... | |
| Marantz SACD 30N Hello to all, I have a perhaps strange, perhaps normal question. I have a Marantz SACD-30n CD/SACD player. I like its sound pretty much, and I like what it does (i.e. receives internet radio, can use the DAC portion for streaming from my iPa... | |
| TO DAC OR NOT TO DAC? Hello to all, I have a perhaps strange, perhaps normal question. I have a Marantz SACD-30n CD/SACD player. I like its sound pretty much, and I like what it does (i.e. receives internet radio, can use the DAC portion for streaming from my iPad)... | |
| Lesson Learned I guess the lesson I learned was that you may not like something on day 1, or day 2, or day 3. But you may really like it on day 366. | |
| Lesson Learned Lesson Learned: Just over a year ago I bought a one-meter Analysis Plus toslink cable. I use toslink cable to go from an AudioEngine B1 Bluetooth receiver into my Marantz SACD 30n’s DAC section. (The AudioEngine B1 does have analogue outputs, bu... | |
| Have you reached your end point with this addictive hobby? Years ago, I had. I had a wonderful JRDG preamp paired with a Cary CAD-280 tube power amp. Wonderful remote controllability married to 2/3 triode and 1/3 ultralinear EL-34 sound. The sound from my ML CLS speakers was so musical, so seductiv... | |
| Do I need upgraded power cables? I use the Cable Co. a lot. What has worked for me is to borrow usually four cables at one time. I do a fair amount of research to try to narrow choices down to near four. Because they are already burned in, I don’t have to wait for each one to s... | |
| cable burn-in / system burn-in Settle-in (or Burn-in): It is Real! On Monday of this week I received four new Ice Age Copper-Copper power cables. I put them in on my Pass monoblocks and Martin Logan CLS electrostats right away. At first listen, they sounded thin, flat, and... | |
| New OFC Power Cord from Ice Age Audio Ice Age makes great cables that are truly an excellent value. But the OFC series does not appear to be OCC copper. This is copied directly from the Ice Age website: ”Our latest addition. This Cable is built from multiple strands of individuall... | |
| MNPCTech footers? I installed Gaia III footers on my trusty VPI HW-19 Mk. IV. They did seem to improve the isolation and thus the sound. BUT (and it is a big one), you have to be very careful about the threaded inserts into which you screw the Gaia footers. ... | |
| IsoAcoustics - A Class Act I installed Gaia III footers on my trusty VPI HW-19 Mk. IV. They did seem to improve the isolation and thus improve the sound. BUT (and it is a big one), you have to be very careful about the threaded inserts into which you screw the Gaia f... | |
| IsoAcoustics Gaia feet on Oracle Delphi turntable I installed Gaia III footers on my trusty VPI HW-19 Mk. IV. They did seem to improve the isolation and thus the sound. BUT (and it is a big one), you have to be very careful about the threaded inserts into which you screw the Gaia footers. T... | |
| audioengine b1fi audio quality I believe so, yes. I use a B1 to receive the Bluetooth signal from my iPad, which plays Spotify Premium. Using an optical Toslink cable, I then connect the B1 to my Marantz SACD-30n player which feeds my CJ preamp. The sound is really quite ... | |
| Audioengine B1 questions I also have a B1 that I like. It has very good reception. I almost never have dropouts, delays, or signal problems from my iPad. I use the Toslink optical output to a Marantz SACD-30n. This way I use the internal Marantz DAC, not the Audioen... | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? ^^^👍 Lower distortion = More accurate = More neutral = More SS |