kbarkamian
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| Speakers for a Rega system Have you experimented with the woofers facing in vs out and vice versa? In some rooms, the woofers in works best, and in others woofers out works best.I certainly agree that quality cables help, but I haven't found that they transform a system; ra... | |
| Speaker rec for difficult placement $1,000 Do the Vandies sound good in that room in the same location? If they don't, its most likely the room, not the speakers.I'm not saying there's no reason to change the speakers, just suggesting to make sure it's the speakers before you start throwin... | |
| which $800 used phono to buy????? The Dynavector P75 is very flexible and sounds great to my ears. Very underrated phono stage IMO. | |
| Solid State Phono Pre-amp Recommendations The Dynavector P75 mkII is a great phono stage and should work very well with your cartridges for obvious reasons. I wouldn't pass it over simply due to price. Not sure what your budget is. | |
| How good does a TT have to be for a good cartridge Since turntable systems all work through vibrations, you want only the right vibrations getting to the cartridge. If the deck and arm are adding vibrations, the cartridge will pick them up. A better cartridge will more easily pick up those vibrati... | |
| Rega Dac USB vs Toslink The Rega DAC reclocks, thereby theoretically minimizing/eliminating jitter issues. USB and toslink are reportedly both higher jitter interfaces. Regardless of if reclocking negates differences or not, the only way to tell what sounds best is to tr... | |
| Rega Dac USB vs Toslink Get a glass toslink cable and compare IMO. I bought a Sonicwave glass cable from Amazon for about $25 shipped. It sounds so much better than any fiber cable (read plastic) that I've tried. Some of those plastic cables weren't cheap.Toslink has an ... | |
| AE A5 vs PSB B1 + NAD316 for Music and Movies The Audioengines are great computer speakers. They're no match for the PSB/NAD combo IMO. The AEs work great set up as nearfield speakers in an office environment. They work great as background/non-critical speakers too.I'm not trying to bash the ... | |
| Upgrade from Rega P5 Everyone's got their preferences... I'd look at VPI and Rega before anything else. | |
| Help with shopping for a power amp What made you think the Classe amp was to blame for the sonic weaknesses? I'd think the Classe stuff were easily the strongest parts of the chain.Not trying to be condescending. | |
| If you would have to choose between Focal and B&W. There are no dumb questions, only dumb people.Before everyone starts getting upset about that comment... I'm no rocket surgeon either. | |
| Hooking DishNetwork receiver to amp=speaker noise? I had the same problem - cable box RCAs or TV RCAs into my integrated amp caused a hum. Much more apparent on the input I used, but still present regardless of the input I used.The cause was/is different ground points being used for the cable wire... | |
| Am I going to regret the Gallo 3.1s? Depends on if you've heard them, the condition, room acoustics, setup, gear, etc. No one can truly answer what you'll regret and won't regret. With that being said...Just because Gallo released an upgraded version doesn't make the 3.1 sound any wo... | |
| Can DAC with volume control act as Pre-amp? I don't know very much about the Audioengine DAC. I'm not sure if the volume control is digital or analog. If it's analog, I doubt it would be better than a dedicated preamp or an integrated amp's volume control. If it's digital, I wouldn't go str... | |
| Z phono or PP 2 For $600, I'm pretty sure you can find a Dynavector P75 here on the 'Gon. Probably less. I haven't looked for them in a while, and their aren't any currently listed. If you can get the mkII version, even better.For the money, nothing is more flexi... |