jameswei
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| Which rels do I go for? You mentioned on an earlier thread that you are running Merlin VSM Gen IIIs. Not quite the exact match but the following review mates a REL Strata III with the VSM SEs:http://www.10audio.com/rel_strat3.htm(Apologies if you've already seen this.) T... | |
| Rear Speaker Advice needed I agree that the Focus line occupies about the same position in the Dynaudio range that the Studios occupy in the Proac range. Both are highly regarded speaker makers with challengers to the "best" speaker title at the tops of their ranges.Both Sh... | |
| Rear Speaker Advice needed Consider the Proac 1SCs. They should be a decent sonic match for your Studio 140s. While they lack the deepest bass, presumably you've got that covered with the mains or a subwoofer. | |
| Hearing loss and audio reviewers ? READ ON Just two observations in defense of older reviewers.First, I believe much of a person's reviewing ability depends on knowing what to listen for. When I started this hobby, I couldn't tell the difference between a lot of things, like mid-fi versus ... | |
| For the vinyl enthusiasts I'll second the vote for the Princeton Record Exchange. | |
| Smooth or Contemporary Jazz on Vinyl? Not much of this genre's recent material has been released on vinyl. You may have better luck finding used vinyl from the early days, e.g., early Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Ramsey Lewis, Grover Washington Jr., etc. There have occasionally been... | |
| Best place to connect phono preamp to Fisher 500C? If you use the tape out on the Fisher, would you not be connecting the output of the Fisher to the output of the NAC 42? If so, this might cause damage.Instead, my thought was to connect the output of the NAC 42 to an INPUT of the Fisher. This wou... | |
| Best place to connect phono preamp to Fisher 500C? Are you able to use the NAC 42 as a phono preamp stage which would input into the Fisher? The NAC 42 outputs are DIN connectors, not RCA phono plugs, so connecting to the Fisher would require a DIN to RCA interconnect. Also, since the NAC 42 is a ... | |
| help noisy vpi motor The HW-19 III motor should be virtually silent. With the motor cover on, you should hear nothing from it if your ear is more than a foot away.Your motor sounds like it may have a damaged bearing. How does the turntable sound -- does the motor prob... | |
| VPI Motor / Changing Capacitor is there a right I once had similar clicking sounds coming from the pulley hitting the top of the motor housing. The set screw was loose, and the pulley slid down the motor shaft until it would hit the housing once per revolution. After I figured out where the sou... | |
| Best place to connect phono preamp to Fisher 500C? Of course, the 500C has a phono stage. It would be usable for moving magnet or high output moving coil cartridges, but too low gain for low output moving coil units. Peter Breuninger describes the 500C's inputs in his review in the June 2005 issue... | |
| Watt Puppy 6 Pbb makes a good point -- these suckers are heavy, well over 100 pounds, and each one of them comes in two wooden crates. Shipping is nontrivial.So far as regular obsolescence, I guess that a new model comes out probably every two or three years, ... | |
| What make a TNT "Hot Rod" Different The VPI web site has a copy of a review of the TNT Mark V Hot Rod by Roy Gregory in the magazine HiFi+:http://www.vpiindustries.com/pdf/Issue%2010%2040-46.pdfThe article describes the Hot Rod upgrade as involving a new bearing assembly that is qui... | |
| power reserves It's good to have plenty of capacitance available, but not necessarily in the form of the biggest capacitors. For example, Classe had a design philosophy at one point (and perhaps still now) to use many small capacitors, which some listeners felt ... | |
| Watt Puppy 6 I haven't heard the Legacy speakers you mentioned. Since you said you liked the W/P 8, I thought it might be desirable to identify the differences with the W/P 6.I guess Wilson would say that the W/P 8 is the latest and greatest. Since the W/P 6, ... |