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| Budget Turntable For Low Output Moving Coil ??? Good advise found above in both posts. You may want to also consider an 80s AR or Thorens TD 145,160, or 166. Nice ones can be found $300 to $400. My advise is to stay away from the low end Regas. Decent arms but in stock form have a crappy belt, ... | |
| A good Preamp for ST70 Atmasphere,What is the ball park cost of a rebuild/update on a Dyanco tubed pre? That is something I may want to consider at some point. Seems it might be difficult to find one original cheap enough to make this work if you are paying to have the ... | |
| A good Preamp for ST70 I do not disagree with Trelja who has probably forgot more about tube amplification than I know. I think he is very much on point when he says the ST70 restored and upgraded is a very under appreciated piece of gear. However, I can tell you the so... | |
| A good Preamp for ST70 Consider a DAC with a passive pre. These can be found tubed for $200 to $600 new. I have a Grant Fidelity TDAC9 ($215 new) with tube output in a second system with a ST70. Two analog inputs and three digitals. Running a Denon 3900 to analog for SA... | |
| The Blues.... Yep! | |
| Danny Boy - Recommendations Another vote for "Here is to Ben"-Jacintha | |
| Rega Planar 3 Help/Advice Found it at O'Reilly Auto Parts. It seems I now have a lifetime supply, LOL! | |
| Best day of work ever... Ears to you! | |
| Rega Planar 3 Help/Advice Jimel84,What is hypoid oil and where do you buy it? Thanks. | |
| Rega Planar 3 Help/Advice Thanks Elizabeth!I am sending you an email with some additional questions. | |
| Best Digital RCA cable under $100 new or used? Thanks for all your wonderful responses. I spent some time reading up on all the cables listed here. I boiled it down to two: the Auricle Audio Standard Digital and the Black Cat Veloce. I went ahead and ordered the Veloce. I would like to order t... | |
| Best Digital RCA cable under $100 new or used? I should add this is for a low cost second system between a Grant Dac9 and a Denon 2900. The budget is tight for this system. I am now using a Radio Shack one meter ($20) that sounds good at times but the music breaks up periodically and looses sm... | |
| Tube amp advice My Dynaudio Focus 220s are a similar load. I drive them with the 60 watt TAD-60. My listening room is is 12x14 so I do not have to crank it up to fill the room. I was not sure when I bought the amp that it would drive the Dynaudios, but it does ju... | |
| top 5 preamps under $1,200 I really like my TAD 150 Sig. which resides in my main rig with a TAD-60 amp. But you can't go wrong with a CJ PV10,11,12. I have a PV10 in my 2nd system with a SS amp (Classe CA100) and it sounds very nice. Rocks better than the all tube setup. I... | |
| Help a confused newbie build his first setup... OK here is a suggestion: Find used on audiogon a pair of Quad 11Ls and a Blue Circle integrated amp. Speakers are book shelves around 350 used a the Blue circle CS goes for 750 give or take a bit.. |