macg19
Responses from macg19
| Integrated Tube Amp approx. $2,500 I’ve owned Line Magnetic (good, especially for the price), Raven Audio (quite a bit better SQ than LM) and Rogers High Fidelity (run away, run very far away). I have a Black Ice tube DAC that I like a lot and is a bargain, so I can speak to their... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL Actually, your parents paid for it and medical school after that. (Federal Taxes) Unless you went to school in England, they did not:) | |
| critique my setup -- weak link? best way to improve? You will get WAY more bang for the buck with a $500 Bluesound Node and an $11/mth Qobuz subscription than any turntable/cart/phono stage upgrade at 4 - 5 X the price. Spend the rest on upgrading your speakers. The used market will serve you well,... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL I hope you didn't spend a lot on your collage education | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? Admittedly, most - if not all - off-the-shelf computers are unfit to stream digital music. They don’t have a place in a proper audiophile system. But a purpose-built computer absolutely does. Usually this means a machine you build yourself of th... | |
| Fezz vs Raven @sandrodg73 *matching the phono stage to the cart, not the amp. A great cart needs a great phono stage to perform well. | |
| Fezz vs Raven I owned a Raven Osprey but moved to SS due to speaker choice. It is a very well made, sweet sounding amp. In a lot of ways I miss it. If you buy new you really cant go wrong with the 45 day trial - the restocking fee if you change you mind is fair... | |
| Looking to upgrade my Goldenear Triton ones. Need help All this advice is somewhat moot IMO without knowing what kind of music you listen to. | |
| Phono Preamp Selection @ghdprentice perhaps you mean Jolida? Now Black Ice. I have their tube DAC. Amazing for the money with good NOS tubes. phono’s are out of budget for the OP @z32kerber GN PH-10 and PSU-10 are great for the money but used are 3x the OP’s budget an... | |
| Wanna take it to the next level? Buy MORE speakers! I’m still stuck on how a post with a couple of screen shots from a surround sound AVR set up screen got so much traction??? Worse still is trying to school @mikelavigne on concert hall acoustics. It IS all about the source. For me, it is mind blo... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters @cundare2 NO ONE who is serious about vinyl reproduction should try to fool themselves into thinking that they can accurately and precisely align a commercially manufactured cartridge without WAM on their side. I could not agree more. I went ... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters +3 for the WallySkator | |
| A nice tribute to my favorite living musician, the last man standing. Great video thanks for sharing! | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters @mijostyn @lewm I did set up my latest cart myself. With these tools you can be just as or more accurate than anyone. True statement, without microscopy analysis. The analysis gives you the data to account for azimuth, SRA and zenith errors ... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters If you want to get rid of the uncertainty once and for all, call JR at Wally Tools, get your cart analyzed and get the tool kit. It’s not cheap, but any other method is merely an estimate. |