knotscott
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| System building; a meditation At the end of the day, all that really matters is pleasing yourself. Buy equipment you love. The objective is to obtain equipment that lets you forget its there. Science, art, and voodoo don’t mean a thing when you sit down to listen to a favo... | |
| High end high quality int. amp for low level listening More power doesn’t necessarily equate to improved sound. The sound will likely change a bit, but there’s no guarantee you’ll like it better. I’ve run the gamut of 55 wpc, to 70, 255, 150, 100, 35, and have settled on 20 wpc as my best sounding amp... | |
| Upgrade Turntable or Cart The LP120XUSB has a few sound quality advantages over previous LP120 (non "X") versions, but it’s not hard to "optimize" it and take it a little further.Simple stuff like RCA phono cable upgrade, an improved aftermarket phono stage (a necessity fo... | |
| Biggest "bang for the buck" audio gear you have owned(in your history)? Dynaco Stereo 70. Bought it used for $50. Used it for nearly 30 years mostly stock, then added a VTA PCB, and new caps and tubes for another hundred bucks or so, and still use it in my main system today as half of a bi-amp situation. | |
| Upgrade Suggestions for Turntable/Cartridge/Preamp chain The IPT RigB metal body for the VM95 is getting high praise. Worth looking into for fairly low cost.Don’t know what’s in the rest of your system, but on the other hand, I went from a very good VM95SH that's reasonably similar to the ML, to a Nagao... | |
| Helping a kid out I can offer no advice, but I love the story.... :-) | |
| Tube Amp recommendations to drive Klipsch Forte III The VTA amps are impressive and compete with a lot gear that costs much more. Less expensive yet in kit form. Willsenton integrated amps are getting a lot of love these days for awesome performance for not a ton of money. | |
| Bi Wiring Speakers from Luxman L-509X The only downside is the cost of the extra speaker wires. The upside is highly debated, but experimenting is always fun. | |
| Need more power, Bi-amping does it work or does it just sound wrong A stock version should work fine with your modified HCA-2 in a horizontal bi-amp configuration if both have same output power, and input impedance. I’d put the modified amp on the mids/tweeters, assuming it has better clarity. If the gain doesn’t ... | |
| Help/advice, upgrading my vintage amplifier! In addition to Rogue and Jolida, I'll add Willsenton to the recommendation list. They have a couple of excellent value tube integrated amps. | |
| No response from seller Happens outside of the audio world too. Most FB or CL sellers are pretty decent people, but some will only lift a finger if it benefits them....including removing a sold listing. | |
| My ProAc Studio 200s are…. ... instruments just became fuller, more liquid sounding….a bit larger, more dimensional….but in all…..just more lifelike than the solid state My sentiments exactly with a lot of decent tube amps mated to transparent speakers. | |
| MM Cartridge Recommendation Picking a cart is VERY subjective, and the synergy of a cart with any given system is a variable. If a system is neutral to slightly warmish, a brighter cart can liven things up and sound great....but the same cart on a system that's already on t... | |
| Going monoblock? Monoblocks give you an entire amp dedicated to one speaker, and no crosstalk, which corresponds to better separation, wider soundstage, better dynamics, and sometimes improved clarity, but there are lots of variables.You could always ask Sonus Fab... | |
| What audio expos are worth going to? It’s been a long time since I’ve been, but there used to be a CES in Las Vegas in January, and one in Chicago in June. Not even sure if that’s true anymore, but there is one scheduled in Vegas January 5-8, 2022. Covid vaccination is required.What ... |