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| HELP! I bought equipment drunk, don’t know anything. Please do not sit down to assemble the Elekit with a bottle of your favorite wine at your side. Maybe a glass or two will be OK, but after that I predict the odds of installing a capacitor bassackwards with rise 15 percent with every additional gl... | |
| How much difference does a phono preamp really make? Last year I built a Pearl 2, a diy phono pre by Pass Labs designer Wayne Colburn. At first I was disappointed. Things didn’t sound much different from the built-in phono input on my Rogue Sphinx 2. But keep listening. I realized the Rogue was ver... | |
| Wilson Audio Specialties Chronosonic XVX loudspeaker!! only $300,000.oo I will just say that when I was buying my Magnepan .7s at a local dealer (Audio Concepts in Dallas), I heard what seriously sounded like a live combo from around the corner. When I looked, it was a pair of Wilson’s, I think Alexandrias or somethin... | |
| Best Bang for your Buck DAC ? Another thumbs-up for the Musical Fidelity V-90. I haven’t auditioned all that many DACs, but did take the v-90 to my dealer to run against a Simaudio $1,500 model. Yes, the Simaudio might have had an edge, but not much. I now have a PS Audio Dire... | |
| Class D for a Tube Lover I will be another to recommend the obvious: tubed input stage, Class D output. Rogue and PS Audio do it, and I’m sure some others in what seems to be a growing trend. Or a Class A input, Class D output as an option. Just FYI, I bought the Musical ... | |
| Is the appeal to euphonic distortion learned? The late psychiatrist and writer Oliver Sacks has a book, Musicophilia, that I think addresses some universal human preferences for harmony and against dissonance. It’s been a while since I read it, but as I recall the preference is found in some ... | |
| Stereophile's 2021 products of the year Several folks here apparently believe they are in on a big secret that ads buy good reviews. I personally haven’t found that to be true. And if it were, what do you think the people at Big High End Advertiser think when gear costing 90 percent les... | |
| Classical Top Five Chopin. No symphonies (that I know of), but two great concertos and endless piano pieces. | |
| Power regenerator vs conditioner if frequency drops to 55 Hz, or the incoming voltage goes high to 140 vac, or drops to 90 vac, the inverter doesn’t care or even notice. It uses what it gets from the line and converts it to dc. It ALWAYS supplies noise-free 60 Hz/120 vac to its l... | |
| General question on Carbon fiber tonearms versus aluminum Clearly execution matters, but if we know what it takes to make a great tone arm, then this question is answerable. Carbon fiber simply has more strength and stiffness as aluminum at the same weight. If that’s what it takes, then yes. But I expect... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Brownsfan and Twoleftears gave you some good info. Them and Discogs. With Discogs you’ll probably pay $2-3 a disc. I’m also 69 and was introduced to classical in college by another student who did a good job introducing me. So here’s my plan. Fin... | |
| Single driver speakers. Are they worth considering ? It’s all about where you’re willing to compromise. I have a diy 6.5-inch ported bookshelf speaker that I think sounds great — for what it is. The mid-range is just very sweet and the highs are good. But I added a subwoofer soon after. Looking at m... | |
| High end Class D amps? Given my experience with my Rogue Sphinx v.2 driving .7 Magnepans, pairing a tube front end with their Hypex class D amps is a winning combination. The folks at PS Audio are taking the same route with their latest Stellar amps. I will allow that m... | |
| Looking for a new integrated amp I own a Sphinx v2 and really like it with my Magnepan .7s. The phono stage is very good, based on replacing it with a diy Pass Pearl 2 Phono preamp and hearing less improvement than expected. The Rogue’s phono stage is pleasant but the Pearl digs ... | |
| why a 75 dollar blue ray smokes all 2k CD players and any turntable??? Reasonable statement — speakers are the most imperfect link in the chain; followed by questionable opinion — all decent electronics sound the same. One is just a fact of physics and one ignores differences in people’s hearing perceptions and prefe... |