howardlee
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| DIY Speaker Kits, a good idea? You can get ready made crossovers from Madison if that part bothers you. I did that 20 years ago when building a pair of Dick Olsher's Basszillas. The top was a large acrylic sheet I had made for open baffle, a Lowther DX4 midrange and Chinese r... | |
| What A Drag It Is Getting Old Hell, I could leave my keys in the freezer when I was 20...... | |
| Incredible Audiophile Imaging -- at a Concert! @ghdprentice Thanks for that post, which really made me think. One thing irritating to me is the concept of audio engineers deciding for me what I want to hear. It's one thing to be sitting in your home with different parts of the keyboard spr... | |
| Long Run of Speaker Cabling If that were me I would get the Blue Jeans Cable option or make my own, then also go to Cable Company for a set of Transparent or whatever you choose. Try both. If I did that and liked the Transparent I'd use that as a biwire on the top and pu... | |
| What is your vinyl commitment? Techics 1200G with Hana Umami Blue and Black Swan phono pre from Austin Audio Works you're looking at about $10K. This doesn't include, of course, the Degritter, the Stack Audio record "weight" and mat, along with alignment tools from Wally. Goe... | |
| Leave it on? I have a Pass Labs integrated, class AB, and they recommend leaving it on. There's a mute button but it doesn't appear to be a standby. It still stays warm. | |
| Anyone familiar with Stack Audio Stabiliser and / or their turntable mat? I should mention that the mat's sleeve it arrived in said a record spindle weight of up to 500 gm is ok (my F/R is over that). Doesn't matter as I'm leaving the Stabiliser on there..... | |
| Anyone familiar with Stack Audio Stabiliser and / or their turntable mat? My Stack Audio record mat came. I've now compared it to the Oyaide, using the Stabiliser with both. The Serene Surface Mat is 3mm silicone, with 4 small nibs spaced on the record support surface. There's a nickel-sized circular cutout on the und... | |
| which turntable or how to convert to balanced phono setup? I’m being simplistic here, but if you have RCA outs with a separate ground wire into a phono pre with a balanced/nonbalanced switch does that work? Or does it matter whether you have a MC or MM cartridge? | |
| Anyone familiar with Stack Audio Stabiliser and / or their turntable mat? Well, that's timely. I just got my Stabiliser and had it on my Technics SL1210G all day in a comparison with the weighted clamp I've been using (Fern/Roby, 700gm) plus the KAB screw-down clamp I just got. I had done a mat comparison a couple da... | |
| Denafrips Pontus 15th, Pass Labs INT-60, and Wilson Sabrinas I have the INT-60 and a nice set of KEF meta floor standers along with the Denafrips Venus. You could hook that setup with lamp cord and it would sound great. I'd say get some inexpensive cables, maybe from BlueJean or such, then hook up with Ca... | |
| Encouraging people to consider a traditional 2 channel stereo system. Think about it. Let's say you got interested in audio in the 60's, 70's, even the 80's. What were the options? What would you have been into in the following decades? I honestly can't say for myself. In the 60's and 70's I was all into better ... | |
| the gateway product that turned you into an audiophile I think I was an audiophile as a teenager with my GE portable stereo. That doesn't mean you can't go from something like that to a revelatory experience based purely on sound. I had built a Dynaco SCA-80 integrated and had the Dyna A25 speakers t... | |
| Seeking Advice to Improve My Audio System ($1000 Budget) A lot of folks here are ignoring your budget. I would suggest a good used integrated like the older PSAudio Spectral or the newer one that has the phono stage. For inexpensive speakers get the earlier used KEF LS50’s (not the Meta, much less &... | |
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