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| Amp more important than speakers? Amps is an especially dear piece of equipment to audiophiles. Anyone can have excellent speakers and digital, but really great and well-matched amps is our territory. | |
| Amp more important than speakers? If the room is acoustically okay and not too big any good speaker will interact reasonably well with it. Interaction with some audiophiles' brains however is a totally different story. Especially if they have transistors instead of neurons. | |
| Why are HD downloads so expensive? Overpriced, big time. $2000 turntable - Okay; $20 for one digital album - not Okay. The fair price would be $1 instead of $20. And cds are not worth anything these days; $3 is a rip-off. | |
| What Song Reminds You of Your First Love? Demon's Eye by Deep Purple | |
| Amp more important than speakers? It should be possible to match any good speakers to tube amps. If it is not then those speakers are either junk or designed for a very particular application.As a sidenote. Someone who likes both tubes and B&W is..well..unusual individual.Yes,... | |
| Nottingham tonearms compared to other brands? Why HO? Everyone says that LO sounds better. You phono can't handle it well?I want to try that Tracer cartridge you mentioned in another thread too but can't find it so far.How did the Benz do the dynamics and bass? That would be my concern. | |
| What defines a good tonearm Synergy with the turntable is an interesting subject. Would someone care to elaborate?"Back when men were men" is even more interesting subject but this forum is probably not the appropriate place to discuss it. But we could discuss 'when women we... | |
| Cassette Deck?? Let me tell you this. Recordings made on my Nak using Maxell Vertex tape, which is the best there is, directly from Acoustech phono using Purist cable fed by signal from the Spacedeck sound better in every respect except noise level than any CD. A... | |
| Cassette Deck?? Some say Tandberg 3014, and 3014a, is the best there is. I never tried one. They are also very rare and expensive to buy and maintain.Yes, my Spacedeck still sounds better than the copy made on my well aligned Nak 682ZX but not by too much. This N... | |
| Cassette Deck?? Elizabeth, your speakers are junk too. Throw them away and you won't regret it. Not to mention your turntables and cables. Amps are OK. | |
| Number of yrs. to reach the finished line? Addiction or not, if it is more or less under control it's OK. | |
| Cassette Deck?? Right. RTRs are history too, so are tube amps and vinyl. You might be able to get belt for your Sony deck on ebay; I got a quality belt for my twelve years old CEC cd player. | |
| Number of yrs. to reach the finished line? At some point you would have to change the listening room and possibly the house. How many of us would go that far?Even now my modest $7.5k in used prices system would sound much better if I could move it to a better room which I cannot do. But th... | |
| Amp more important than speakers? I would say that unless one must use low power SET amp, speakers first. However, eventually yes if you want to bring the most out of your speakers the amp together with pre-amp will cost more than the speakers, perhaps much more; double the price ... | |
| Nottingham tonearms compared to other brands? I use Dyna 10X5 for now, but it is lighter. I know that many have 20X on their Spacearms and like it a lot. 9.1g is not really heavy. Spacearm's effective mass is about 9g so yes it should work just fine; and the compliance is okay. But again I ha... |