jpan
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| First impressions: Silversmith Fidelium interconnects I've been using the Fidelium speaker cables for a year and half. I recently picked up two set of the ICs both RCA for runs between phono and line stage and line and amps. Love them! I reached out directly to Jeffrey @ Silversmith. | |
| Help with tone arm geometry and bass What @macg19 said. JR analyzed two of mine (MSL Signature Gold and Hana Umami Red) and set up my table. (Luckily we’re both in the Bay Area.) One of the best & nicest guys in the biz. Give him a call & he’ll set you straight. | |
| I want to buy new speakers for 50,000 and see it used for 30,000, what should I do? If you can afford to buy them new, then buy them new. This seems easy to me. I think the more important question to ask yourself is why you posted about speakers in the amp/preamp section. | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? What @deep_333 said. +100 | |
| Which has a greater influence on sound quality, the amp or the preamp? @scm I’m with you. I’ve had preamps from Pass and Herron. Very good stuff. But, I’ll stick with my EM/IA Remote Autoformer (pure silver) all day, every day. When I put that sucker in my system it was one of those glorious audiophile days. In th... | |
| Your Ultimate Phono Preamp: Which One Would You Choose? What @mijostyn said: Channel D Seta L20 | |
| Would you move to a bigger house if you could just to have a better listening room ? Most definitely. Interesting to see the different reasons for/against. | |
| Quandary I think you made the right choice. Just as you stated: it’s one thing to charge for a demo (and we can argue over the amount), but it’s another to charge and not give you what you want. That’s weird to me. You cannot have a successful demo (of any... | |
| Music first or sound first? Well it’s the qualifier “in listening to their rigs“ that changes my answer. With that it is always the sound over the music. There are many ways, for me, to enjoy music. But when it comes to my rig, I want it to sound like nothing else, as if it... | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... Borresen speakers. They do many, many things right and imaging is most definitely one of them. | |
| If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments? Because you need to think of the room as another component in your system. Except this component is “unwanted” and, yet, inescapable regardless of how much “stuff” you have or don’t have in it. There are different ways to manage the room—speaker p... | |
| Are You a Swifty? I think she’s pretty great. I came to that conclusion after buying a bunch of her records for my daughter and listening with her to them on my system. She can write a helluva pop song. My kid opened my ears. | |
| Turntable Isolation Reach out to Norm Varney @ AV Roomservice. His EVPs are reasonable and well regarded. I use them under my subs and they are very, very effective. They’ll work under components as well. At least check them out. | |
| power cord for pass 250.8 Yes, you should definitely explore a better cable. You don’t have to rush and do it. It might be worthwhile just to listen with the stock cable and get familiar with the sound, etc. At some point, I recommend moving on. I have the XA60.5 mono blo... | |
| Best Neil Young Vinyl Recordings Neil’s output is consistently good-to-great from a sound stand point. He’s long been committed to capturing the best sound possible and it shows. So, it’s hard to go wrong whether you get originals, remasters, or new ones. I’ll throw out a few: E... |