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| Tube amp Low end Bass question To some extent, it depends on how you employ the sub. If you are using something like the REL subs, which runs the main speakers full range and only adds low frequency support, then you will still be taxing the SET amp with having to deliver a lo... | |
| Hey RICH Audiophiles Are you talking about a very specialized Airbnb? Someone rent's out a place that has a fine system that is available for use. That would be the only way top gear can be reasonably auditioned because such gear must be properly integrated into a s... | |
| What are the best speakers you have ever owned and why? My speakers, described above, are essentially vintage/custom speakers that are not commercially available. An important feature, to me, is that they are extremely efficient so that they work with low-powered amps (the only kind of amps I really l... | |
| What are the best speakers you have ever owned and why? My current speakers are SAP J2001 speakers with the midrange compression/horn driver replaced with Western Electric 713b driver and ks 12025 horn. This a particularly nice sounding system at lower volume level. The system is around 99 db/w effic... | |
| Aurender vs. Roon audiotroy,You mentioned that you carry Naim servers as well. Have you tried the 555 server, and if so, what do you think about it? | |
| Kuzma/Koetsu feedbak?? I know a lot of people who use Koetsu cartridges and I am friends with a dealer and no one has reported problems, in terms of premature failure or poor quality control. Also, if he was recommending ClearAudio cartridges as an alternative to Koets... | |
| Higher Efficiency Speakers Terrific. Absent noise issues, the M-60 is a great amp for almost any reasonable loudspeaker. I was just concerned about the OP's situation because of his plans to utilize high efficiency speakers. | |
| Higher Efficiency Speakers Recently, at the Capital Audiofest, outside of Washington DC, I heard some remarkable, very high efficiency speakers made by Charney Audio. The system I heard cost $17,000, but, they do make cheaper as well as more expensive systems. They, like ... | |
| Cimpliance Vs Cartridge loading Typically, when you go to a lower numeric value for loading (going from 500 ohms to 100 ohms) you are increasing the loading and this does cut the high frequencies. This tends to make the bass seem MORE prominent, but you are reporting a loss in ... | |
| mc cartridge loading If you can get your system to sound as loud as you want it to be and noise is not an issue, then you actually have enough gain. I can understand not wanting to set the volume level so high, particularly where it is possible that an "accident" cou... | |
| If you could only keep 5 record albums, what would they be? The choices I am posting, are NOT the most valuable, nor are they my absolute favorite music. I am listing these because of a variety of factors, sound quality of the record vs. digital alternatives, lack of digital alternatives, and sentimental ... | |
| Trouble Decreasing Treble I would first try "free" changes. At 1k ohm, for the load impedance, you are running the cartridge a little "hot" in terms of treble response. You could try a different loading, including a setting below the 400 ohm setting recommended by the ca... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD It really depends on what one considers as a "starter system;" at really low prices, digital players are vastly superior to cheap vinyl rigs which not only sound terrible, but also risk damaging records. But, improvements as one moves up the pric... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD Very good digital and very good analogue have distinctive sounds. If you grew up being accustomed to one vs. the other, that might determine your preference. When MP3 had become the the most prominent form of music storage/delivery, a professor ... | |
| Fairy Tales by Radka Toneff Yes, a very nice sounding CD; if you can find the original LP, it is amazing that it actually sounds better than the CD. I have both, and listen mostly to the CD (too lazy to do much records these days; the CD has been ripped to a server). |