marakanetz
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| Audio tip for aging male audiophiles Is there a VPI ear cleaner on the market? | |
| Benz ACE, Grado Sonata or Clearaudio Aurum Beta S? I've been using Benz Glider and than Benz M.09. I still have those. I use Glider as a back up if I sell my Benz M.09. Having 2 carts at a time helps me to sell any cartridge I want and use another one instead while upgrading for a better one.I am ... | |
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| Hi-fi CDP vs. DAC + entry CDP Some of the even cheap integrated CD players have excellent transports. Not sure about Cambridge, but this is the case with CAL which you can get realy cheap right now. | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Astor Piazzolla's "Death of an Angel"Astor Piazzolla's "Libertango"Pat Metheny -- "Offramp". | |
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| Hall of Shame I do also agree with Ezmeralda except all-tube(I realy love all-tube recorded music back there). | |
| Planar in a small room On my understanding, Mags need to stay away from walls(at least from back wall), like to be placed at least 6' from each other. So you'd better give them some room to breathe. | |
| gem or trash..?? That's a guitar amp or you can even plug in some harp or synth in there too if it's still working... | |
| Switchable Tetrode - Triode please explain If I do not power down the amps I can hear and see how speaker drivers are poppin'. just don't like to have my speaker blown. even when I place a cartridge needle on the groves I do mute my phono before. | |
| 200w/ch stereo amps: best 1 for under 2000 used? BAT VK200 used | |
| Switchable Tetrode - Triode please explain It's all inside the tube logic:Tetrode mode is needed when the dynamic music needs to be reproduced: large orchestras, brass bands and has certainly larger gain than triode. When the triode mode is used when you need maximum transparency listening... | |
| Impedance loading low-output MC cartridges... I'm shure that ACE will do excellent with 47K load and 100Ohm load as well with almost no difference. Your numerous experiments most likely bring you nothing(I've tried that with Glider and with M.09). I've been soldering in parallel different res... | |
| Stylus cleaning: tools, fluids, techniques? I use Last cleaner too along with Benz brush that is being supplied with the cartridge. Last brush is great too.To visualise I use dental magnifying mirror that is available for free if you ask your dentist. | |
| Guitar lessons in NY area Frogman: I am skilled to fluently playing basic and standard chords and selecting appropriate harmonics to the melody/music on the acoustic guitar.I want to learn an abilities and advantages of an electric guitar. I want mainly to leart to play so... |