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| Koetsu cartridges. They must be something special. By the way, my local dealer has sent several of his own and customer Koetsu cartridges for repair/re-tipping to Andy Kim in California. He is very pleased with what he got back. It appears that Koetsu will live on well into the future thanks to ... | |
| Tube amp/ preamp advice If you don't need remote control, I would agree with jond that Audio Note Oto or Soro integrated amps are great choices in warmer sounding tube gear. My absolute favorite in your price range is the Synthesis Audio A 40 (40 wpc) integrated amp tha... | |
| Anyone wear gloves to handle vacuum tubes? I know a number of old timers who have used everything, including high power transmitter tubes that get very hot, to tungar tubes, and mercury vapor tubes, and they all handle the tubes without gloves. Tubes are nothing like halogen or metsl hali... | |
| Tube amp/ preamp advice You need to actually hear your candidate amplifiers. Tube amps are WAY more variable in sound than high quality solid state amps. I personally don’t like the MC 275 amp, in particular, anything made in the past 25 years or so. They sound so dea... | |
| Did I Expect too much? It seems that some people think the binding post makes the speaker. I don't see how anyone can claim you got ripped off just on the basis of the quality of the binding post, particularly when it hasn't even been established that the binding posts... | |
| Koetsu cartridges. They must be something special. I like the sound of the stone-body Koetsus. Most of my friends who own or are familiar with the lineup prefer the Rosewood Signature Platinum. It is a matter of personal preference. Regardless of the science, the cartridges sound a little diffe... | |
| Did I Expect too much? Simonmoon, The OP has single-driver fullrange system; there is no crossover. I’ve heard the slightly larger version of the OP’s speaker and it is the first single-driver system that I really liked a lot. Since then, I’ve heard a few more grea... | |
| Did I Expect too much? I never heard s BD 5; I was kidding about that upgrade. I have heard some pretty wild drivers, such as the equally expensive Voxativ fieldcoil full range driver. I also heard a system with fiekd coil woofers and midrange drivers and a field coil... | |
| Did I Expect too much? I liked the Charney Companion speaker I heard with the AER BD3 driver. This is a very lively sounding system with a surprisingly rich sound, not the sort of lean and mean sound one use to hear in single driver systems, and the top end was reasona... | |
| Repair for speaker cabinet Any furniture guy will know how to make it look better. It is the perfect, or near perfect repair that would be costly. That would require refinishing the entire cabinet, not just the point of damage. | |
| Koetsu cartridges. They must be something special. Jonathan Carr, the designer of Lyra cartridges, has praised Mr. Sugano of Koetsu for discovering the use of platinum alloy magnets. This is particularly interesting because they both like platinum magnets even though they make quite different sou... | |
| Did I Expect too much? Manufacturers look for the cheapest parts that get them the sound they are looking to achieve. That is a reasonable approach. Any other part that alters the sound could be improving the sound or making it worse from the prospective of the buyer-... | |
| Koetsu cartridges. They must be something special. I have not heard one, but some say thar Etsuro Urushi cartridges are similar. The bad news is that they are quite expensive. | |
| Analogue front end. You want more weight, scale and dynamics.Where do you start upgrading? Dwette, You have a platter that is designed to transfer the vibrations imparted in the record by the stylus tracking the groove, precisely how Atmasphere described. POM was chosen because it matches the characteristics of vinyl so energy is tran... | |
| Koetsu cartridges. They must be something special. Koetsu cartridges deliver a warm, rich and “saturated” sound without sounding murky or slow sounding which is not an easy trick to pull off. The company closed recently but older cartridges can be re-tipped. My local dealer uses someone in Calif... |