kennythekey
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| Sound Impressions - Benchmark HPA4/LA4 in use with a quality vinyl rig? Thank you ozzy62 and yyzsantabarbara. It’s interesting about the cables resolving your issue. It may be best for me to try the 30- or 60 (preferred)-day trials offered for the HPA4. I’m at the stage in my life where I have a fine system that I lo... | |
| Sound Impressions - Benchmark HPA4/LA4 in use with a quality vinyl rig? Do you think that any of that sheen you experienced with the LA4 may have been related to what you were using at the time? | |
| Sound Impressions - Benchmark HPA4/LA4 in use with a quality vinyl rig? Right, but I was using relaxed to describe the sound that I love, but that does not mean dull or non-involving. So, detailed, transparent, natural, etc., without any sheen. I understood from you that sheen meant anxious, or perhaps a bit too edgy.... | |
| Sound Impressions - Benchmark HPA4/LA4 in use with a quality vinyl rig? Ozzy62 It’s good to hear back from you having experienced the LA4 with tubes and vinyl. It took me a long time to lose the “sheen” and I don’t want that back. Just looking to build upon the relaxed sound that keeps me listening. | |
| Sound Impressions - Benchmark HPA4/LA4 in use with a quality vinyl rig? Yyzsantabarbara, I contacted and heard back from Rory. The only issue regarding my using the HPA4 with my single ended components will be giving up some SNR and that makes sense. As, I won’t be giving up my single ended 300B mono blocks, I need m... | |
| Spatial Audio Raven Preamp I use loudspeakers that are designed to be close to room corners, but the room in our new home could not accommodate that setup. While losing the corners decreased bass and the overall energy, I did gain some detail as a benefit. After doing a lot... | |
| Sound Impressions - Benchmark HPA4/LA4 in use with a quality vinyl rig? Thanks, yyzsantabarbara! | |
| A Thought Exercise: Consolidating Analog To One Table and Two Cartridges neonknight Sounds right for you, and thank you for sharing. I was fortunate to be able to start fresh with a new system moving away from my old one. Then I was lucky to find that sound with a dealer who I've stuck with now for the last 14 years.... | |
| A Thought Exercise: Consolidating Analog To One Table and Two Cartridges pindac, Thanks for your kind words. It can be a long haul no matter how you approach it. | |
| A Thought Exercise: Consolidating Analog To One Table and Two Cartridges neonknight - The core question is really this. Does next tier of tables offer tangible gains in performance? That is really what the question is, would you not say? I have not posted in a long time. The following is my personal opinion, because t... | |
| Can't give up the old (McIntosh) Actually, Tekton does have some monitors to choose from. | |
| Can't give up the old (McIntosh) Maybe Tekton, but no mini’s. Efficient and under budget. You would need to listen of course. I have never heard the combo.Kenny | |
| If you had to start all over again in this day and age The merry-go-round over the last 50+ years of multiple systems and upgrading, has gotten me to a point where I’m ‘almost’ completely satisfied with my sound. What I did not quite understand in those earlier years of changes, is that you have to fi... | |
| Radio Days..............and you? My McIntosh MR71 is not original. I first sent it to Audio Classics to have it restored to original spec. It sounded very good after that. A couple of years after that, I sent it to a guy up in Montreal, who designed and built tube amplifiers back... | |
| high quality turntable with built in phono at $1000? I’m sorry, because a built-in phono preamp is not included. I missed that part when I first read your post.Kenny |