johnnyb53
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| Schiit Mani or Cambridge duo or Mofi ultraphono for a phono stage. As for cartridges, I favor HO MM with the Mani, but HOMC sounds and works well, if your line stage has enough gain for your taste.I'm a pretty big fan of AudioTechnica MM carts. They are linear and musical, and they have a new line, the AT95-VM se... | |
| Schiit Mani or Cambridge duo or Mofi ultraphono for a phono stage. This is a topic close to my heart. Through the years, I have owned the Cambridge 640p, the JoLiDa 6DJ9, MAGI (NOS tubes and handwired PTP, designed and made by Mark Voigt), and my most recent, the Schiit Mani.I have no experience with the MoFi uni... | |
| Schiit Freya + tube rolling When I want to roll tubes at reasonable cost, I go to Brent Jessee recording, aka, http://www.audiotubes.com. Here is his 6SN7 page: http://www.audiotubes.com/6sn7.htm. Over the years I've gotten RCA greyglass 6V6GT, mil surplus ultra low noise Ph... | |
| Schiit Mani - any opinions ? I'm late to this thread, but I just took delivery of my Schiit Mani on Nov. 9, 2019. It replaces a hand-wired PTP, all NOS tube MAGI Phonomena phono stage (about $575 used) and a Jolida JD9 ($399 in 2011 for v1 closeout), which weighs 10-1/2 lbs. ... | |
| Best cheapo Cartridge I bought an AT150MLX back in 2008. I got a lot of good sound and good wear out of it for around 10 years. Then I got a bent cantilever. At that time, AT was having trouble getting boron for the cantilever, so they switched the cantilever/stylus on... | |
| Speaker advice for listening to Blues music cedarblues wrote:I've seen Johnny live many times... he was one of the greats! In addition to all the great blues Johnny W. performed and recorded, his other great gift to the Blues community was producing Muddy Waters on three albums after Muddy ... | |
| turntable choice In 2013 I went to an audio store to audition some speakers. I took along a recent MoFi Sinatra remaster/reissue. The store's LP playback system was a Pro-Ject Carbon (before the "DC" improvement) played through Naim electronics (phono stage and in... | |
| advice for mono cartridge After a year of playing The Beatles remastered mono LP set I bought in September 2014, I bought the Audio Technica AT-MONO3/LP HOMC (mono, of course). Amazon sells these cheaper than anywhere else--$118.53 with free shipping. It features a 0.6mil ... | |
| ADS L1290 Speakers Not long after I got a pair of ADS L1090s (very similar to 1290s but with ~7" dia. twin woofers instead of 8" ones. Then I moved to the Boston area and it was easy to get some factory platform/plinths for them. A year later I got some floor sp... | |
| Is it possible to have vinyl nearly noise free? PAY ATTENTION TO ATMASPHERE! He explained why my new phono preamp lowered (pretty much eliminated) LP playback noise.In 2012 an audiobuddy sold me his MAGI (Massachusetts Audio Group, Inc.) line stage. MAGI is pretty much a one-man operation and t... | |
| Most “disappeared” speakers. I heard the MG30.7 at my local high end store's "Music Matters open house in March 2018. Pretty dang awesome. I never heard any Tympanis. I had a co-worker who had a pair, but I never made it over to his trailer. That's right, he had a pair of Mag... | |
| Most “disappeared” speakers. shkong78 wrote: You can try out Magnepan LRS with generous 60 days return policy. Planar speakers are known for disappearing act. Boy, did I learn that when I brought home a pair of Magneplanar 1.7s in Nov. 2013. 5-1/2 years later they are more s... | |
| Why the fascination with subwoofers? Excerpt from the OP:I guess I understand why any audiophile would want to hear more tight bass in their audio system, but why add a subwoofer to an existing audio system when they don’t always perform well, are costly, and are difficult to integra... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? Before we continue to respond to Master Troll madavid0, I suggest we look at the subject lines of his previous posts.Gee, see a pattern here?Tonearms: Ripoff?Job amps: Suck?Schiit not that Good?Isolation stands: snakeoil?tIntegrateds: Why do they ... | |
| looking for ideas on must have classical music 77jovian wrote (in part):... Mahler...the second symphony, Resurrection (again, lots of versions, but *I usually reach for Gilbert Kaplan with the London Symphony*).Good call. Kaplan is the ultimate amateur enthusiast. He recorded his version arou... |