knotscott
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| Your experiences with system synergy It’d be useful for you to post more details about your system and the new amp. There are a lot of variables in play. I would not write off the new amp without a good long warm up, and ample time for the tubes to burn in (if not done during manufa... | |
| Changing panels in Quad Speakers Nice job documenting that. 😎 Congrats on your renewed speakers! | |
| What speaker could safely be ordered without hearing it first? None that I'd buy as my main speakers without hearing them first. | |
| MM or MI Cartridge? Nagaoka MP500 is about as good as it gets IMHO, but it’s subjective and very system dependent. It does a lot of things extremely well, and doesn't have any bad habits. Technically it’s moving permalloy, but I wouldn’t let semantics be the reason ... | |
| From whence does Sound Stage come? The soundstage can always only be as good as what’s on the recording, and a good setup should reveal huge differences between recordings. Lousy recording, lousy soundstage. Phase coherency and time alignment of the drivers are significant contrib... | |
| A Black Box to Solve Everything Tubes for guitar and tubes for hi fi have very different objectives. Audible distortion for a guitar amp is a desirable feature, not so for a hi fi amp. Two different worlds for the same technology. Adding anything in the path of tube gear for hi... | |
| Watt Puppy DIY advise Changing drivers will almost certainly make them sound different. Whether it's an "upgrade" is subjective. With a speaker of this level, I would not suggest such a radical change. It's likely not going to be a plug and play replacement. You m... | |
| Would a real butcher block be going to far? The benefit of end grain is that it’s easier on the knives, so they hold an edge longer. An end grain cutting board is harder to make so costs more. As mentioned, there’s really not much sonic benefit that justifies the extra cost. | |
| Cardas vs Cardas vs Shunyata interconnects If the cables are all new, did you give them any burn in time before critical evaluation? | |
| Buying Used Equipment on the Internet Pardon my ignorance, but what is "TMR"? | |
| Active ATC vs Spendor / Pass Labs I had a lovely demo. of a Pass INT 60/ Spendor D9.2. Had all the musical flow, engagement at all volume levels that I could ever want. A truly impressive demo.... I think your statement says it all. Bird in hand, and all that! | |
| I'm thinking about a low watt tube amplifier? You'll not be happy with an SET and IMHO the push pull design loses much of the "tube magic". Jerry They're not cheap, but have you ever heard a CAT JL amp (push-pull)? | |
| Can you pick out what is what? While possibly interesting, Youtube videos suffer audio degradation that will likely mask subtle differences of the better gear. | |
| A previous discussion included a statement about crossover components. It couldn’t hurt to ask them if the upgrade is still available, or at least what they’d recommend. Otherwise, go your own way...it should still be an upgrade from cheap electrolytics, sand cast resistors, and iron core inductors. Should definitely... | |
| A previous discussion included a statement about crossover components. "Have you ever replaced the caps and resistors in your speakers crossovers, and to your ears did that result in better sound quality?" Yes, and yes. Many times. On a good system it’s pretty audible. It helps reduce/eliminate one of many potenti... |