lukaske
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| Vintage turntable with a modern phono stage, is it worth it? Off course : look at Thorens td 124 , Garrard. , Denon 101., (old ones off Technics)… still one of the best in the world !! | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? Ane Brun : “How beauty holds the hand of sorrow” , Yello : “Touch” , Mari Boine: ”The best of” ,… | |
| Choosing new cables Very good cables : digital 75 ohm :Chord Epic ; interlink: I prefer Audioquest, Wireworld, powercables: Furutech , speakercables : Kimber. But first off all: try different cables , before you take a decision. Good luck !! | |
| CD TRANSPORT THAT MAKES AN AUDIBLE DIFFERENCE Metronome “ le player” , CEC tl5 … | |
| What is the current retail cost of your reference system? The best system , I ever had: - Thorens 124 /2 : 4500€ -phono-amp .:2500€ -CEC sdt: 3200€ -Moon Mind 2: 2500€ -Metronome Technologie C6 (dac): 8000€ -Daniël Hertz M6L: 12000€ - Mal Valve 2: 18000€ -Ilumnia Magister: 27000€ - Ilumnia Magis... | |
| Tube or solid state Tube/solid préamp. to Tube poweramp ( dac= tube)) Metronome Technologie - Daniël Hertz M6L - Mal Valve 2 | |
| World's Best Stereo System ?... @rick2000 Lyngdorf isn’t “the best” : Maybe for the lovers , and not hearing other things.; For me , (and a lot off friends) : cd-driver : CEC / Ear acute 3/ Audio Note/ Metronome Technologie Kalista ,AQWO /… ; Turntable : Thorens 124 td II, Deno... | |
| New Pink Floyd release I’ve bought the PF , “Animals” : LP,blue ray , Cd,DVD , in one box :” original recording” : LP : lot of crashes, bad recording : flat, no dimension , not 3D : wasn’t nice to listening to. Cd : the same as the LP..The original of 1977 is much bette... | |
| New Cartridge or New Preamp Sammysharps :It’s a Japanese company :they work together with Texas Instruments. They make only phono préamps. Worldclass!!! Best i ever heard ! | |
| New Cartridge or New Preamp I would go for the Aurora Vista prima mk1 (about 2200€) or the -mk2 ( about 4200€ ) 1€=1$ at the moment) :sounds great ! Open , very musical , detailfull: I love that préamp ! I use him ,with the Thorens 124 MKII: just beautiful !! | |
| (Hegel vs Luxman) vs PS Audio For sure : Luxman !! | |
| Four Hour Tube Amp Warm-Up My Mal Valve 2 and VAC 300.1 have a good sound after 45 minutes. After 4 hours , they sounds amazing ! | |
| Dan D'Agostino S350 vs Luxman M-10X Luxman off course ! D’Agostino is 90% Krell. À lot of money, and not my cup of tea. I prefer tubes ! | |
| Best Amps for Magneplanar 1.7i Speakers I sell mine VAC phi 300.1 poweramp. (150 w.) i think , it will be a very good match ! Tube amp will be better than a transistor amp. | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl To Arthur and heretobuy. : I have to say that anno 2022 a lot of digital recordings are bad , specially the British. I cann’t understand it. When you take Nina Simone Muddy Waters , Charles Lloyd , Pat Metheny,… ( original recording ): No digita... |