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| Conrad Johnson or PrimaLuna cj cav getting kinda old, make sure it is in good shape... might need a recapprimaluna is very good, there are other even lower price china made options like line magnetic or cayin, also very nice - stay with the better established brands with goo... | |
| Left and right subwoofers with integrated good advice givenstereo subs are wonderful, transformative of many systemsgood for you! | |
| My Brief Affair with a Hegel H90 Integrated Amp sorry to hear you were disappointed with the h90it is hegel’s very lowest tier offering of the last generation, but still, i would have thought it would fare better at least on the amp side - the focus of hegels new models is to specifically upgra... | |
| What solid state power amp are you using with your Harbeth Super HL5+ speakers? 135 wpc solid state shouldn’t be underpowered for a harbeth hl5 unless the room is very large and/or you listen hella loudthat been said, i drive my harbeths with any of the amps below-- audio research reference 110-- audio research v70 -- primalu... | |
| Tone arm resonance and cartridge compliance: How do they interact?? sunnyjimwhy are you screaming? have you been hanging out with kimberly g? :) | |
| Am I asking too much? i also agree with noromancedid you nicely ask the retailer why? curious to know the responseeven seemingly unreasonable people can sometimes have their reasons, at least give them a chance to explainin these times, maybe it lack of staff due to co... | |
| Speakers suggestion help without the sarcasm, i would submit here that it would be a good practice for folks who have a financial interest in making the recommendations they do to disclose that fact in every post in which they make such a recommendationas a forum we expec... | |
| Preamp suggestions, yes again @markf31 good call on the modwright 9 -- i almost posted the link here when i saw it offered for sale - for the money it is a stealcouple things when you get it -- i found mine to be slightly microphonic, so be careful with placement and do the pe... | |
| Kt88 or 6550 tube for McIntosh MC275 painful ignorance on display in this thread, coupled with bravado and confidenceoldhyvme - don't waste your breathugh | |
| D'agostino amplifiers: where's the beef? state of the art/excellent/good/high quality are all notions that exist in the eye of the beholderas is expensive/high value/smart money spentas is new/modern/interesting/sexybut the thing about money and time is... money is important, till you ru... | |
| Analog or Digital and why? and pateks will go out styleand porsche 911’s will be passeand french bordeauxs will be supplanted by new zealand selectionsand jacques pepin techniques will go out of stylequality endures | |
| Newproduction power tubes: Reliablity chinese tubes have historically had a reputation for cheap manufacture and poor qc - back 10-15 years ago they were truly grimrussian makes have had their problems tooin both cases, quality has improved a lot... the chinese in general are state of... | |
| Modwright Umbilical cords cmachyes the silver speckled sky blue one | |
| Dac comparison i don't advise anyone to buy dacs on the metric of $/pound :)mhdt orchid is excellent, as is the dena ares 2 - have both in house, the orchid to me is more natural sounding more easeful | |
| DAC upgrade another optionyour jolida can be upgraded by underwood wally/sound connection for ~$500 - substantial SQ gainsalso the jolida is ripe for 12ax7 tube upgrade, also a significant advance in SQ over the chinese tubes that come stock |