lloydc
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| Genesis digital lens Assuming you are using the Wadia as a transport into a DAC, I doubt that any transport is so good that the Lens can not improve its output. As pointed out above, it is only useful on 16/44.1.I still use my Digital Lens. It is particularly helpfu... | |
| What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear imho, with some obvious exceptions (original blue note, parlophone beatles, etc.), the value of record collections is very small. Also, the time and effort required to sell them is enormous: inspecting, grading, listing, packing, shipping, corres... | |
| BEST SPEAKERS AT A REASONABLE PRICE As you can see, asking that question here is like asking a herd of cats which way to go. | |
| What is a lowball offer? How low is low? More than 50% of retail for a used item, usually with no warranty, no realistic return option, from an unknown seller, seems absurd to me. Offer whatever you want, the seller may need cash right away. The Golden Rule: whoever has the gold makes t... | |
| Robb Report tapirtapir, well said. | |
| I'm putting to rest worrying about sibilance Some phono preamps are more susceptible to sibilance, and surface noise, than others. Same with cartridges, as OP noted with his Hana, and certainly some pressings are better than others. I suspect some amps of contributing to the problem, too. ... | |
| What is the fascination? @dweller, Cleeds wasn’t being rude, he just gave the unvarnished truth about those Garrards. They were great - but only in theory. All too often people here won’t name names or tell it straight. Blunt honesty like Cleeds’ should be encourage... | |
| Cassette Deck Repair Imho, it’s not worth the cost of repair unless it’s a great 3-head deck, e.g. Nakamichi, Tandberg or Revox. I just hope my Dragon (rebuilt by Hermann, he’s the best!) outlasts me. | |
| Inexpensive Tube Amps Since when is 3.5 W @ 8 ohms, even tube watts, adequate for anything other than quiet background music or super-efficient horn speakers? | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( "my son is 19 and listens to everything on his Iphone with earbuds."+1, exactly the same for my son, who is 18. So I bought him a pair of great Etymotic Research earbuds ($400) and a dac for his computer (an Oppo) and he's good. He has no intere... | |
| EL34 tubes- alternates to matched octet for Primaluna HP dialogue premium I experienced reliability issues with Psvanne Ax7’s. Wish it were not so, they sounded nice. | |
| Publication bias and confounders in product reviews - TAS, Stereophile, Audiogon, etcetera It is often difficult to decipher a Stereophile review. As someone above noted, theymay damn a product with faint praise. Many of their reviews seem inconclusive or unenthusiastic - which usually means "there are better products out there". Wh... | |
| EL34 tubes- alternates to matched octet for Primaluna HP dialogue premium Blues41, Small signal tubes are plentiful and to some degree afordable. I was referring to power tubes. 8 old matched Mullard el34’s? You can’t be serious. | |
| EL34 tubes- alternates to matched octet for Primaluna HP dialogue premium Matched modern power tubes are fine. 8 matched NOS power tubes would cost way too much, and besides, you won’t really find 8 matched tubes- there aren’t enough of them to sort and match them like they can new production. The recommendation for 8... | |
| For tube sound, which is more important: preamp or power amp? I went all tube- pre, amp, phono - more than 30 years ago, when SS amps were harsh and consequently, I had lost interest in recorded music. Solved that problem! Amps and preamps are equally important.As many above have noted, there are many ways... |