marakanetz
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| long speaker cables or IC's for budget system If you don't have balanced components you should not run long unbalanced interconnects. | |
| Love the shelter 501MK2, what's the next step Lyra Kleos. No need to spend $5k | |
| What is your listening level? My level music listening is I'd say proficient.My level of equipment listening of recordings is I'd say advanced.I always try to keep real volume not for large symphony orchestras though. | |
| Speaker suggestions at around $30k For medium size listening room Genesis 7.2f at MSRP $9,000 and possible deals for $7500 new is extreamly hard or impossible to beat even with $30k. | |
| Tube question for the electrical engineers Lapierre,Sorry to intermit, but OP is just changing tubes once they become noisy and not necessary bad or blown.According to Atmasphere it's the usual nature of signal tubes to build up noise and I tend to agree with him.JFET phonostages are subst... | |
| Cartridge around $2K help. Go for Lyra Kleos or you can evengo with Delos.It's best with Michell. | |
| Tube question for the electrical engineers Did you speak to the manufacturer about this problem? It clearly spells the design flow of using maximum bias to the tube for the maximum gain. That's why I tend to like more solid state phononstages. If you like sound of your Mac preamp, you can ... | |
| Which Cables Are of Most Importance? Rrog,The point of wire importance is always floating. In my rig the link between amp/preamp is less important than TT --> phonostage. | |
| Which Cables Are of Most Importance? Rrog,My interconnects from pre to amp are balanced AudioTechnica with Neutrik XLR plugs, so in this case the quality of wires is almost negligent. | |
| Next upgrade By relatively inexpensive purchases of good quality headphones and headphone amplifier you can get stunning results. With headphones you can even hear traces of overdubbing on certain recordings. | |
| Next upgrade Add headphones. | |
| Long interconnect cables Don't worry about 4 feed at all. | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? Just checked 50y.o. HH Scott 222c filter caps and both only lost 16% of capacity.That makes me think of weather to replace the original or keep it. Replacing the original might require some chassis cutting for the new fitting and near $50 per piece. | |
| Pre-amp suggestions for Thiel 2.4/Pass Labs XA30.5 I think you'll get better and cheaper results if you'll just use CAP151 which will make much more sense than your current Pass that underpowers your speakers. You can order a phono board from Classe and mount it yourself with easy instructions fro... | |
| Pros and Cons of "Staying with" Analog and Vinyl The main advantage that there's no digital resolution that would reach an analogue ever.Cons: vinyl playback will always have more noise than CD. |