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| I'll Take "Songs About People" for $200 Plenty of biographical songs, like Dylan's "Hurricane" (Rubin "Hurricane" Carter) and Joan Baez' "Joe Hill" (labor organizer). | |
| Best standalone music server? Even if you buy a dedicated music server, it is usually NOT a simple one-box solution and you will still need to hook it up to the internet to get downloads of metadata on the albums and tracks you download onto the server. That means a switch an... | |
| How much gain is needed in a Phono Preamp for a 0.2 to 0.3mv low output moving coil? I also run an Orpheus L with a phonostage with 60 db of gain. I have enough gain from the phonostage. However, I don't know about the amount of gain provided by my linestage or the input sensitivity of my amp, so it is hard to translate my exper... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings There are a number of Class D amps that sound really good at their modest price points, such as the offerings by Bel Canto. But, so far, the really high end and expensive models have not impressed me. I have no idea why the Devialet amps get suc... | |
| SUTs and Resistive Loading Questions Regardless of the theoretical issues, there is no harm at all in just trying different loading. I experimented with primary side loading by making RCA loading plugs and an RCA T splitter. I used cheap resistors for the experiment, with the inten... | |
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| SUTs and Resistive Loading Questions This can be a particularly complex subject because there are some experts who advocate loading on the secondary side of the transformer (selecting the 100 ohm setting on the phonostage does that), while others advocate loading on the primary side ... | |
| Basis Audio Super Arm 9 I am intrigued by this arm too. I presume it would be a drop-in replacement of my Vector arm on my Basis Debut table. But, I do wonder how it compares with other interesting arms, such as the Schroeder Linear Tracking arm or the Swedish Audio T... | |
| Audio Note SUTs - Are they worth the money ? I have heard a number of systems with Audio Note SUT, including my own, and they are very good. Given that you have an all Audio Note set up for electronics, it might be worth the price premium to stick with their transformers. The thing is, the... | |
| Solid State Amps for Quad ESL 57? It has been quite a while since I heard the HQD system. That was a very expensive system in its day. I have heard, much more recently, re-built and heavily modified 57s done by a company called MyEmia. One of these pair of speakers came with a... | |
| Proac Response D 48/Tannoy Kensington I've heard both, in similar systems, though not in any sort of side-by-side comparison. The ProAc is somewhat of a rare beast--it actually uses a ribbon tweeter that is well integrated with the other drivers. In some respects it is a "safer" cho... | |
| Which British Hi-Fi Magazine is Your Favorite of the Brits? By a fairly wide margin, Hi Fi News and Record Review. They cover a wide range of subjects (vintage and current gear), music and recordings (better than the other audio magazines) and provide ratings that tell you much more about what they subjec... | |
| Tubeyist sounding Pre-amp? Chayro, I like the sound of Viva gear. I have a Viva fono phonostage myself. I checked out your profile and found that you have a Trenner & Friedl speakers, a brand I like too. We also share the same brand of turntable. It must mean we sha... | |
| Tubeyist sounding Pre-amp? The comments above illustrate how much the idea of "tubey sound" varies. If that is suppose to mean a warm sound (upper bass, lower midrange prominence), I cannot think of too much gear that is the antithesis of this kind of sound than Audio Rese... | |
| Something just isn't there I have heard the GIK panels and I think they do a pretty good job. The fabric on the panels can be printed with whatever you want so they are relatively easy to work into the décor. But, even such modest treatment may not be necessary. I've hea... |