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| Stage III Concepts Cables - Any Advice/Feedback/Thoughts is deeply appreciated. fsmithjack, out of curiosity, if you don't mind, how much did you pay for the Soulution 530 ? How old is It ?For $55k it should be a hell of an integrated. Gryphon Diablo 300, something that I would want is $19.5k or so with optional phono stage. | |
| Who makes great active preamps ? Tube or solid state or hybrid. Well, first I meant great not just excellent, and second I meant compared to their power amps. Sure, Lamm are excellent. | |
| Stage III Concepts Cables - Any Advice/Feedback/Thoughts is deeply appreciated. I don't think that you will settle for Pass after hearing the Soulution with right cabling. It is more likely that if you keep the Pass and sell the Soulution now you will soon sell the Pass too and will start all over again. You know what you str... | |
| How often do you have to service your Studer or Otari deck ? Home not pro environment. bdp24, I see, I misunderstood you. No, no intention to buy junk and make it perfect.Those decks’ preamp section is quite good but of course this step can be improved considerably. However, I would very rarely if ever play vinyl except when making ... | |
| Stage III Concepts Cables - Any Advice/Feedback/Thoughts is deeply appreciated. But you will, my boy. Cost of cables and cords is about 1/3 of the total. Two pairs of interconnects were bought new, speaker cables and four power cords used. Three sources - turntable, cassette deck and cd player, which I use very rarely. | |
| How often do you have to service your Studer or Otari deck ? Home not pro environment. There is another advantage, and it is a big one , to using open reel deck instead of turntable - you don't need active preamp, you run it directly to power amp. You record directly from phono and lose almost nothing. And of course you can run phon... | |
| What are the weak points of Pass amps and pre-amps ? A few say that Pass amps are better than preamps, not that preamps are no good. I heard the same about Rowland, Lamm and others. It appears that it is more difficult to make a great preamp than power amp. Who is going to make great preamps ? Let m... | |
| How often do you have to service your Studer or Otari deck ? Home not pro environment. bdp24, audiophile endeavor makes no economic sense whatsoever. People wear out $10k cartridges and $500 NOS tubes. | |
| How often do you have to service your Studer or Otari deck ? Home not pro environment. Buying from a reputable source can also be difficult or impossible.That's what I thought, if I use the deck for, say, thousand hours a year, I would need to have it looked over every five years or so.But, how long do the reproduction heads last, a... | |
| How often do you have to service your Studer or Otari deck ? Home not pro environment. Two things - hunting for master tape dubs and making compilations off records and even maybe some cds. | |
| Stage III Concepts Cables - Any Advice/Feedback/Thoughts is deeply appreciated. Alright, Ed, no problem. | |
| Stage III Concepts Cables - Any Advice/Feedback/Thoughts is deeply appreciated. As they say - road to truth has many turns. You of course would have to listen a little more but it seems to me that you definitely like Soulution/Magico match much more overall than Pass/Magico match. With the right cord on the amp and ideally al... | |
| How often do you have to service your Studer or Otari deck ? Home not pro environment. captain_winters and ct0517, appreciate your posts.I have been thinking about Studer and Otari half track only, not about Crown or Ampex or top Revox. Maybe I am wrong, not sure.Yeah, 7.5 and 15 ips speed, I don't think I will need 30 ips. I asked ... | |
| Stage III Concepts Cables - Any Advice/Feedback/Thoughts is deeply appreciated. ebm, you send me one more PM with any content and I will report you to Audiogon. | |
| Stage III Concepts Cables - Any Advice/Feedback/Thoughts is deeply appreciated. Who cares about 30% overpriced if it sounds so good ? This particular dealer was absolutely correct in his recommendation. Dealers sell, this doesn't mean that they are all dishonest even to a degree. |