johnss
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| Snell C-III Have owned many pairs of Snells over the years. Before removing the woofers, you may want to remove the tweeters and see if they are dead or not. if dead, no need to remove the woofers. Just replace the tweeters, if you can find a pair. Pretty har... | |
| Douk Audio. Any experience with any of their products? I have bought several items off of douk audio. they are primarily a re-seller for chinese gear manufacturers. Their EAR phono stage clone is really good, as are their tube pre amps. Great value for the money. | |
| Help me upgrade my Mac system?! If you listen to a lot of vinyl, I would look at upgrading the phono stage. try a manley chinook or an EAR 834P. | |
| mc275 tube options Have been running the PSVANE gray glass bottles in mine....great match | |
| McIntosh mc275 yep, agree with mattmiller. the MC275 is a classic, new or old. there is a reason the 275 has become such a benchmark for others to measure up against. was not just by accident. | |
| Was the Snell Secret a Wide Baffle? the AIIIs were hard to beat. I owned two pairs at one time. an original A3, and the later A3i. A3i was more refined sounding with the tweeter and crossover upgrades. There were four disadvantages to them. 1 you needed a big room to really let them... | |
| Excellent article in Stereophile think atmosphere nailed it. Most don't know about the weighting equation and only see the product or end result. if a person takes the time to measure each multiple orders on the primary freq, and then finds a way to minimize those, and ignore the... | |
| Has anyone upgraded from an AudioTechnica ART9? I did a poor job of explaining.... when you are considering spending 8k to 15k or more on a LOMC cart, buying a tape deck and one tape should not be much of an issue. and even if you only have that one tape, you now have a tool for a true A-B comp... | |
| Has anyone upgraded from an AudioTechnica ART9? have not heard the Miyajima MC cart so do not know what it sounds like. all I was trying to say was I was in overdrive, hard pressed on the search for the best LP playback nirvana, thinking I would find it the more I spent....just was not the case... | |
| Top vintage receivers vs. modern high-end equipment just adding my 2 cents, if I had the Paragon would not be looking at 1970s receivers, would look for a Marantz 7 pre and a pair of MAC MC60s...... | |
| Has anyone upgraded from an AudioTechnica ART9? have the art 9, think its great, but have tried to upstage it with more expensive MC carts, but have not done so. pretty hard to beat it unless you step up the 1000, but even then, it does not blow away the art 9. forget LOMC carts from some of th... | |
| Best Tubes on Market today? get the black carbon Shuguangs, recently released. | |
| VM540ML cartridge - what phono preamp is a good match I have owned most of the MF phono gear. the more expensive units are quite nice. if both are an improvement over the sony AV receiver, then take the jump and buy one of the EAR clones. I have the real EAR as well as several of the clones. Clones a... | |
| Tube DAC without output transformer? its from a few years ago, but the trivista is tube without transformers. | |
| Separate Dac, and what kind? crossfree, have about the same digital system you have. buy the Denafrips Ares II dac, about 700 new. will be a huge step up over other dacs in the sub 2k range, and much much better than the D to A conversion in the sonos. |