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| Any experience with HRS Harmonic Resolution system I am all for getting a good rack to isolate the components from the environment and to provide the right structure for the shelves that go under the components.However, I have found that, with respect to the shelves themselves, there is no easy an... | |
| Any experience with HRS Harmonic Resolution system My only experience is with a friend's system. He had HRS design a long, three section, three tiered rack. This thing is extremely heavy. HRS required the dimension, weight and weight distribution of each component going into the rack so that the s... | |
| What is the best storage for cartridges? I can only guess, but, nitrogen is a non-reactive gas, so it should be good for preserving cartridges. I think airtight should be good enough. The problem with exposure to the air comes from constantly introducing new reactive compounds (principal... | |
| Anyone compare Ortofon A90 vs Lyra Titan i? Sean, Your trip to RMAF sounds like it would be fun. As you are well aware, in terms of listening to alternatives, there are so many variables involved, auditioning may not really prove that much. The best I've ever gotten out of a show (I've been... | |
| What is the best storage for cartridges? Is a humidor really the best storage vessel? I would opt for something completely airtight. The most obvious enemy of a cartridge is airborne pollutants, such as ozone. Ozone attacks the rubber components of the cartridge suspension making them br... | |
| Anyone compare Ortofon A90 vs Lyra Titan i? Sean,Since you are having the A90 fixed, it still probably pays to have an alternative that sounds slightly different--just to keep things interesting. The Titan is a slightly cooler sounding cartridge than the Orpheus. I cannot say how it compare... | |
| Anyone compare Ortofon A90 vs Lyra Titan i? Are looking for something that sounds different or something very similar to the A90? Not knowing someone's preference, system, room acoustics, etc., makes it hard to make a specific recommendation. All I can say is that I've heard both (I own a T... | |
| Heard the new Grateful Dead on Rhino? Yes. These are terrific reissues. Most of the reissues put out by Warner (this is really a Warner reissue) in recent years have been terrific. Check out the Van Morrison reissues, for example. | |
| Linn Linto question I had one a few years back. This is quite a decent phonostage for the money. It is meant to be used with medium to low output MC cartridges. I used it with a Lyra Helikon and it had just the right amount of gain for that cartridge (I believe the c... | |
| What Are The Best 12AT7's and 12AX7's? Of course it is pretty hard to predict what anyone one person would prefer sonically, so at best, we can only make some recommendations on what to try.I agree that 5751s are worth trying. They have lower gain than 12AX7s, however, so they may not ... | |
| What's more important: phono stage or amp I agree that it is not so much a matter of "what is more important" but more of a matter of matchinc components. The amp must be matched to the speaker and the phonostage to the cartridge. There are plenty of fantastic amps, but only when the amp ... | |
| Have you treated your listening space? I've heard a number of rooms with all sorts of treatment. A friend has a ground up special room that costs more than the average house (has the full design/build supervision by Rives). I like the room myself, but, a number of other friends find th... | |
| Placette RVC vs. Placette Active? A friend has a passive linestage built around a light sensitive resistor/LED element (like the Lightspeed, though I am not sure of the brand he is using). Like the Placette, that device offers a large number of steps of attenuation. He uses it in ... | |
| Placette RVC vs. Placette Active? I compared the placette active to the placette passive (not the RVC) in a setup that did require a somewhat long interconnect to the amplifiers, so the passive was not in an ideal setup. Under these conditions, the active sounded more lively and "... | |
| Is phase control switch a deal breaker for you? Wolf Garcia,Ralph is Ralph Karsten, the founder and principle designer of Atmasphere electronics. His designs are fully balanced, so, phase reversal is accomplished just by using a switch. Single ended electronics would require an additional "acti... |