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| Graham Phantom vs Triplaner Thomas,Thanks for sharing your observations. It appears that you personally favor the Phantom and the DaVinci. A friend has the Phantom and a Basis Vector, so I've heard both with a Lyra Titan and a Transfiguration Orpheus. I have never so much as... | |
| Why Can't Tubes Be Mass-Produced Cheaply? I don't know of any current production small signal tubes that better vintage tubes, and it is not just a matter of old tubes being better when driven hard. I have some old Tungsol 6sn7 roundplates that measure very weak on my tube tester. In my a... | |
| Lyra Titan i with a Manley Steelhead....settings?? Rmaurin,I don't have the VTA adjustment mechanism. I have made a set of spacers out of 1/2" PVC pipe that have been filed down to different heights. The spacers differ in height by .3 mm (measured on a set of calipers). This difference is easy to ... | |
| Lyra Titan i with a Manley Steelhead....settings?? I agree with Whart about the extreme VTA sensitivity of the Titan. A change of as little as .3mm of height at the armpost (Vector arm, which is 9" in length), makes a substantial change in the sound.JBatlanta, as you have noted, going to a higher ... | |
| Graham Phantom vs Triplaner Yes, Tri Mai is a nice guy, and so was the founder Herb Papier. I've also met Victor Conti from Vector. It seems like a lot of the people involved in tonearm design are great guys who are passionate about their work.I am a bit leery of the whole b... | |
| Graham Phantom vs Triplaner The common use of a particular component at CES or any show does not necessarily mean it is the "best" or is being endorsed by all those folks. Sure, the Triplanars are not being given away, but, anyone who loans gear to others at a show will find... | |
| to diffuse or absorb... The answer is not that simple because the desired relative levels of either differ for home theater and two channel audio. For home theater purposes, a lot more absorption is desirable because precise imaging/placement cues must come from the spea... | |
| High End Isolation - HRS, SRA, Active platforms I disagree that a rack is designed only to isolate components from vibration coming from the floor. Most rack/shelves are also designed to dissipate vibration coming from the component itself (e.g., the vibration of power transformers). Couplers a... | |
| Why the sudden popularity of 12 inch arms All else being equal, a 12" inch arm should be better than a 9" arm (who can argue with more inches is better, guys?). The trouble is, there is no way to make all else equal. It is hardly a technological breakthrough to make an arm longer, but to ... | |
| Lyra Titan i with a Manley Steelhead....settings?? Jbatlanta,You are doing the right thing -- experimenting -- as there is no such thing as a "right" setting. You actually should not expect to hear a change in sound by changing the capacitance loading. Capacitance loading affects moving magnet car... | |
| Planar close to a rear wall? Quad for example? I heartily endorse Onhwy61's recommendation. I've only heard the Revolutions at shows (CES several times), but in every instance, the Gradient sounded terrific in small rooms and backed up to the wall. It is specifically designed to accomodate dif... | |
| High End Isolation - HRS, SRA, Active platforms I personally use Symposium Ultra shelves and solid couplers under my amplifiers and linestage, and Svelte Shelves under my speakers. I am particularly happy with what the shelves do under my speakers (tighten up the bass and improve clarity). But,... | |
| Two questions about the latest Martin Logan's I haven't heard the Vista, so I cannot comment on them, but, I had the opportunity to talk to Mr. Sanders, the head honcho of ML at the time, and he had some very interesting things to say about the size/design of his speakers. At the time, he was... | |
| What's Toshiba replacing the Toshiba HD XA2 with? I am waiting for the Denon 3800 to show up in the US to determine whether a top quality Blu-ray machine is worth purchasing (I am particularly concerned with how it handles/upscales regular DVDs). The bad news is that the price appears to be daunt... | |
| Obscure companies making excellent speakers? Add to this list the following:Oskar Heil Speakers--keeping alive the Heil pleated ribbon speaker technology. I heard these at CES a while back and thought they sounded pretty promising.Trenner & Friedl -- Austrian, I believe. They make very m... |