larryi
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| Borrowing equipment from dealers I know several local dealerships in my area that allow customers to take home gear to audition. I don't know if they allow anyone to borrow stuff, but, they certainly allow it for good regular customers. I personally would not ask to do a home a... | |
| Recommend Outstanding Russian Choral Music The Rachmaninov Vespers is a fantastic work, particularly when sung by a Russian choir (typically, they have fantastic basses). I also like Rachmaninov's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. Another great Russian composer of acapella choir music is G... | |
| Suggestions to upgrade from Lyra Delos I do agree that ECC803S can have a forward, sort of aggressive, midrange (assuming you are talking about real, old stock, tubes); what is appropriate in one setting, or for a particular taste, is not appropriate in another.I wish you the best in y... | |
| Suggestions to upgrade from Lyra Delos It appears that you have done some trials on "free" or near free set up modifications, many of which can have quite a big impact on the sound. I hope you have tried changing vertical tracking angle; for example, lowering the arm pivot point will ... | |
| Help with some big ol' used DIY speakers I too wondered about that big hole in the bass cabinet. I could not tell if that is meant to be the opening of a back-loaded woofer set up (i.e., transmission line/quarter wave back-loaded horn), or the mouth of a compression midrange driver, or ... | |
| Suggestions to upgrade from Lyra Delos Whenever I hear someone say they are looking for a cartridge that is more musical vs. detailed, I think that the person is looking for something that sounds harmonically rich or "dense" such as Koetsu or certain Ortofon and Grado cartridges. The ... | |
| Help with some big ol' used DIY speakers If your friend will be listening while seated at the desk, the problem with this setup is that he will not get the sound from all of the drivers to be well integrated at his position. It might help to toe-in the drivers so that he is at least clo... | |
| Suggestions to upgrade from Lyra Delos I am a fan of Lyra cartridges. I own a Titan, although these days a Transfiguration Orpheus L resides in my tonearm. Lyra cartridges have a open, and nimble sound, which is not as harmonically rich and dense sounding as something like Koetsu car... | |
| Help me complete my stereo system (Harbeth, ClearAudio Concept). For tube amps, I recommend looking into integrated amps from Synthesis (Italian). They make integrated amps with very good DACs and phono stages built into the amp. I have heard the P3 with their Roma 96 integrated (25 wpc) and this is a very ni... | |
| Help me complete my stereo system (Harbeth, ClearAudio Concept). Deja Vu Audio has the full line of Harbeth and they sell ClearAudio turntables. Where they depart from the advice given above is that they exclusively deal in tube amplifiers. I have heard all of the Harbeth lineup there, and I like the P3's mor... | |
| Opinions wanted: 10-30K Speakers for Jazz/Folk I think it is important to think of not just the speaker, but, the combination of speaker and amplifier. If you already have, or have in mind, certain electronics, it would be useful information about compatibility. For example, Magnepan and Sou... | |
| Classical Top Five It is often hard to ignore the historical context of any artist, so I can understand why Wagner is so reviled. But, if one can just isolate the music, and how he melded the music to the drama, he is quite an important artist. I don't think gg107... | |
| Isotek EVO3 Nova One any good? I can only say that I like what the Isotek did to my system. I don't have any problems with audible noise, so the power conditioning is doing something more than removing noise--it improves clarity, and the precision of the image placement in the... | |
| Isotek EVO3 Nova One any good? The Isotek gear does not regenerate the waveform, in other words, it is not an amplifier. I have been to a demonstration and was very impressed with the improvement in sound over not treating power coming from the wall. But, I cannot really say ... | |
| Horn speakers , high efficiency but not “shouty” newtoncr,I like your approach of narrowing candidates to a few that you can realistically audition. As it is turning out, you are looking at single driver or single driver used as wideband driver in a multi-way system, rather than traditional "ho... |