jasonbourne52
Responses from jasonbourne52
| Next best exponential DAC quality level? A DAC with a tube output is like putting maple or chocolate syrup on a vanilla ice cream cone! Euphonic yes, accurate no! | |
| FM Tuners You can run any tuner straight into the Van Alstine and use its front panel pots to control volume. | |
| FM Tuners I have several vintage tuners, including a McIntosh MR77. In present use is a 1978 Mitsubishi DA-F10. That and its DA-F20 sibling are in the top category of Jap 70's FM tuners! I bought mine on eBay for $200. All tuners can produce 1 - 2 volts so ... | |
| Next best exponential DAC quality level? I have the $99 Khadas KTB. Sounds excellent in my system. I doubt spending 10 - 20 X $$$$ will yield better sound! The ESS ES9038 chip set is a formidable device! | |
| Tonearm effective mass Adding weight lowers the resonate frequency. | |
| How do you know when a stereo sounds good? When I press PLAY and sound comes out of the speakers! | |
| Does Lumin x1 needs a dac ? does a good dac will improve it ? No, the DAC in the Lumin is high quality! Some here will tell you otherwise! Present day DACs, either alone or in streamers, have reached a high enough level that they can be considered sonically equivalent. There is no X factor where one DAC will... | |
| Help, MC7270 with 2 pairs, Serial or Parallel Parallel because Series connection ruins amplifier damping by having the signal go through the first speaker's voice coils/x-overs before speaker no.2's voice coils/x-over. | |
| Highest price for a MC 2300 power amp Spare change compared to the recent sale of the Freda Kahlo self-portrait at $39.4 million. | |
| used single ended ss power amp Gamut made a high-power (200wpc) amp using one high-current transistor per channel. This would qualify as "single-end". | |
| Highest value pre under 1.5k used? Robert Grodinsky Research RGR 4. List price in 1981 $600. I bought mine for $200 a few years ago! A superb preamp from the founder of pro audio company RG Dynamics. Sound quality competitive with any of today's four-figure preamps. | |
| philips 867 turntable Forget Philips! Get a vintage Empire like a 208 or the newer models like the 598/698. I have four of them! These are the best vintage American-made TTs! | |
| Sony PS-X50 - MC cartridge advice please (and general MC cartridge advice) The Ariston/Lustre/Fidelity Research FR1mk3F sounded particularly fine! | |
| Sony PS-X50 - MC cartridge advice please (and general MC cartridge advice) I have been using MCs since 1978 when I bought a GAS Sleeping Beauty along with a Verion (Cotter) step-up transformer (SUT). TT was the Ariston RD11S - the Linn Sondek's Scottish cousin - arms were the SME 3009, JH Formula 4, Lustre GST-1. That Ar... | |
| Sony PS-X50 - MC cartridge advice please (and general MC cartridge advice) An AT MC will work fine in that Sony tone arm. Nothing to worry about! So will Denons and other low compliance MCs. Also.weight can be added to the headshell to lower the resonant frequency to the desirable 8 hz frequency if after using a test LP ... |