ltmandella
Responses from ltmandella
| going from tube preamp to solid state I would do it just on principle. What principle is that you may ask? The principal of the boiling frog. Tubes degrade over time. SS much, much less so. I own Tube and SS equipment; amps and preamps. Every few months I will switch between S... | |
| Investigating if ultrasound is harming LPs I commend your effort to try the experiment. Given the tiny scale of weight we are interested in, I think this experiment is impossible to do reliably without very expensive lab equipment and carefully conducted in a controlled lab environment...... | |
| streaming and audiophile stereo Any poorly performing link in the chain of reproduction can have detrimental effect on fidelity and listening enjoyment. Having said that, there is no guarantee that more $$ spent on one component type over another will be worth the money. I t... | |
| Solving the "complex music problem"? Complex musical passages can be a challenge for some systems and environments. To succeed with such music: 1: Your system must not be "power" starved. It needs gobs of power adequate to control the requirements of the particular speakers in use. ... | |
| Qobuz hell I had a different dissatisfaction with QOBUZ which caused me to cancel. The cancellation worked fine for me. I wonder, could you have been close in time to the start of a new month's subscription, and there is some time difference issue consider... | |
| What is the best way to clean Vinyl? Ultrasonic is head and shoulders above any other method. I previously used Recor Doctor vacuum with wet wash. But it is unbelievable how quiet my LPs became after ultrasonic. Ultrasonic even removed a lot of vinyl scraps from the grooves of bra... | |
| Ditching Class A Amps due to Heat - Sort of a Poll I live in the desert. Burning up in the summer and cold as a witches tit in the winter. My class A and tube amps collect dust in the summer. Even my class A/B Quad 909 runs too hot to run for the summer here. So Class D in the summer, Class A ... | |
| Why do my rolling stones albums sound bad? I owned the MOFI Box Set LPs pressings that were 1/2 mastered. They sounded like crap also, sold the set to a dealer at a loss. I also have 7 or 8 SACDs, and the GRR! BluRay. The SACDs also sound like lofi crap. Only the BluRay sounds decent. ... | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl "very good dac" but then entry level TT, phono preamp, and cartridge. Not really a meaningful comparison... | |
| Recommend me a Class A Integrated Amp (or sound like Class A amp) Nelson Pass obviously (used)... | |
| Best progressive rock album side Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus by Spirit | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @bkeske have you heard that disc? I always forget to change the belt position on the MMF 7 to 45 speed before I play it. Getting old I guess... | |
| Class A or Class D solid-state amplifiers (modern designs) Every time, and I mean every time, I put my Musical Fidelity A1-2008 Class A SS amp back in the system (replacing either a QUAD 909 or Transcendent Sound T8-LN OTL tube amp) I listen for about 10 minutes and then say "holy crap!" I forgot how incr... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Something a little different: | |
| What heat sink compound to use in a Musical Fidelity A1? I know it has been a couple years, but I am also concerned about heatsink for my A1-2008. How did your work go on your A1? Any advice you can give about refreshing the heatsink compound or other work on the A1-2008? It is an absolutely amazin... |