larryi
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| ELP laser turntable - any comments? I sort of heard the table at the 2004 CES (didn't see it at 2005). Unfortunately, the demo equipment was so bad that it is impossible to determine the sound quality of the player. Either the distributor or manufacturers are complete idiots for ass... | |
| Tally up best preamplifier ever I suppose I can list some of the contenders, but of course, the "best" is dependent on system, taste and need (e.g., remote controlled?). Sonically, the best I've heard in systems that I am familiar with are:Audionote (u.k.) M-10 and M-8Emotive Au... | |
| New cartridge, now some adjustment questions. You need to also consider that the Shure scale is quite inaccurate and insensitive. I've compared my Shure scale readings to a calibrated digital scale and found mine to be off by .4 grams (read 1.1 when actual weight was 1.5) and another scale wa... | |
| Best headphones you've ever heard/used I own the Stax Omega. They are amazing phones, but they can also be very very demanding as far as upstream components are concerned. I have really heard them at their best in someone else's system, specifically, a system with an Audionote M-8 line... | |
| Equipment Set-up Recommendations? Your Symposium and Navcom solution should be a quite effective, albeit expensive, solution. Both have different compliances and would be attenuating different frequencies of vibration quite effectively. I find the use of Symposium platforms, shelv... | |
| Equipment Set-up Recommendations? You could try putting something designed to "absorb" mechanical energy (convert motion into heat) under the table, such as a Nuance or Symposium shelf. If the floor vibration from walking is a very sharp impulse, but not a very large up and down v... | |
| Maryland,Wash.DC Metro area I am interested. Thanks Cinematic systems for getting the ball rolling. The first meeting to determine that nature and scope of the group activities should be really interesting. I have no idea where most of the interest of other hobbyist lie. | |
| Please recommend a good Tube preamp. A lot of good suggestions above, and a few interesting items that I have not yet heard (e.g., First Sound Presence Delux). Not knowing what sound/change you are going for, I would say that everyone's suggestion is merely a recommendation to AUDITI... | |
| speaker excursion..."mo power"..and bass..Sean Boy, you've opened a potentially big can-o-worms. I have no idea who is right, but there are those who maintain that it is far easier to damage a speaker with a low powered amp that clips than with a high-powered amp. I believe the theory is that ... | |
| Linn Linto - still a world class MC phono stage ? I don't know if how the Linto stacks up against any competition, having never shot it out with other phono stages, but I used one with a Lyra Helikon and it worked very well. It is very, very quiet (no noise detectable) and has a very dynamic pres... | |
| Anyone familiar with the Manger driver? I've heard them in two models of Overkill Audio speakers at CES and T.H.E. Show. Both implementations were quite expensive (One model is $70k, including digital crossover and amps). The Overkill speakers sounded incredibly fast, dynamic and exciti... | |
| What's The Best Blooming Tube Amp? I should also mention that I find that quality to be quite elusive when it comes to linestages. The best I've heard at creating an enveloping soundfield without creating a false warmth and annoying phaseyness are the Emotive Audio Epifania and the... | |
| What's The Best Blooming Tube Amp? By "bloom" I think of the way some tube amps are able to create the illusion of sound expanding into an enormous space and enveloping the listener (as compared to the relatively flat soundfield of most solid state amps). I don't particularly like ... | |
| Naim Cd Players I own a CDS3. It is one of the best cdp I've heard and is certainly competitive with top transport/DAC combinations. The CDS3 replaced a Sony SCD-1 SACD player. The CDS3 handily beat the SCD-1, even when the SCD-1 was playing an SACD. I've also au... | |
| New Cary CD player303/300 w/ tubes I got a chance to play around with it this weekend at a friends place. We also did a quick comparison with the Naim CDS2.The Cary player sounded pretty good -- detailed, open and lively sounding. The tube output option sounded less bright and not ... |