ivanj
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| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, @kennymacc The Salons 2 are a keeper. @illaheman I might recommend you play around with the Rythmic's placement and especially crossover setting. Sometime setting the point too high muddies up the detail full range. On my speaker the rolloff... | |
| Cogging! For a cogent and clear explanation of cogging, which DD motors have it, and how to prevent it, please check this out: https://www.celeramotion.com/applimotion/support/technical-papers/slotless-vs-slotted-motors/ Early '80s Technics SP-10s had th... | |
| Best Full-Function Preamplifier @ap1 A quick scan of this Audiogon Forum reveals over 45 threads about 'Accuphase voltage conversion' - necessary if you import a used piece from Japan into NA or Europe. Otherwise one can monkey around with transformers, @dodgealum does not st... | |
| Best Full-Function Preamplifier @dodgealum Re: Accuphase C-2300. It has a full function remote control. | |
| Best Full-Function Preamplifier May I suggest the new Accuphase C-2300 preamp? It is fully balanced input to output, has a tape monitor/processor loop, four band tone controls and a loudness control that switches in/out, has different levels of gain, and can be had with an AD-60... | |
| Looking for an Amp Replacement I’d try a Benchmark Media Systems ABH-2. They can drive anything, are made in Syracuse, NY, and have great service although their equipment has very little need for such. Please consider using their cables also. (I believe Blue Jeans Cables make a... | |
| Amp question with size constraints @polanskyd If you have to have an integrated consider the Accuphase range. They have plug in boards for a DAC and a MC/MM phono stage. This would be a considerable upgrade from what you have, and the Canadian prices are on par with reality. I’d ... | |
| Amp question with size constraints @wester17 +1 on Benchmark. Get that combo with the BMS cables or the Blue Jeans equivalent and you will never look back. Perhaps you can sell on your present cables and offset the price. @polanskyd My wife was born in Toronto. For a diminut... | |
| The best speaker cables you’ve had Benchmark Media Systems 3' w Speakon and banana connectors, pair for each mono block. | |
| Accuphase E650 XLR Input issues If you are delusionally 'clever' or penurious and buy from overseas grey-market electronics sources you must pay the piper! | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other NB: I am a Sound Lab dealer. I have U-545s and M-745s. I've heard just about everything phono-wise including the early Goldmunds. I guess I am a kindred spirit who is not trying to sell you anything although I am sure I will get brick-bats on tha... | |
| All Benchmark System Question BMS equipment is transparent.If you are hearing hardness or ’lack of warmth’ it is on the original recording. I’ve proven this with CD/SACD "masters" of performances that were recorded in different ways with different mics, etc. if you must, I’d a... | |
| If you had access to a time machine, what concerts would you go back to see? Assuming I was immune to any diseases of the times. (No yellow fever please.) Also, I would have the chance to go to the after concert parties or dos corresponding to the times!Any concert with CorelliDietrich of Leipzig concertsVon BingenThe Ring... | |
| Paying with a cashiers check? Need advice! I take bitcoins, wire transfers and personal checks only.What is ironic is back when I was in the big data business my team built the platform on which PayPal built their first anti-fraud system. No more PP Mr. Thiel. Do auctioneers take PP? | |
| Best cost no object tube phono C-47 Accuphase. Balanced and single ended inputs. Adjust loading etc. from your listening seat. Its predecessor was the closest device we have measured to a SWWG.I've never heard the atmasphere phono product (I heard a set of their mono amps decad... |