mario_b
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| Bellari VP129 vs. PrimaLuna Internal phono-stage Hi Kevin,As you may know, I went with the Prima Luna phono stage - actually soldered it in myself. Initially, the PL board was pretty tepid. I kept checking to see if my VTA was too low because of the absence of bass. But after about a 200 hour bu... | |
| Optical Retrieval from "Touchy-Feely" Vinyl Larkyparka,Optically read information in frequency modulation continues to return the best analogue playback in AV, all while sharing territory with video frames and multiple digital formats. I’m not sure if this space were to be opened up for “au... | |
| Optical Retrieval from "Touchy-Feely" Vinyl After a brief look into this ELP vinyl player, it occurs to me that we’re coming from two different realms of audio. You’re a “product” man, while this thread was an attempt to examine concepts. This expensive CD player for vinyl is really not wha... | |
| Optical Retrieval from "Touchy-Feely" Vinyl My mistake: I google ELPS Laser Turntable. For that pricetag today ($15G) - couldn't we get error check processing and lose the surface noise? | |
| Optical Retrieval from "Touchy-Feely" Vinyl Gosh Steve,Judging from the three hits on google this laser table brought up, I must have somehow missed all the buzz. | |
| New Prima Luna Amp In Distress / Me Too For the record, pencil tapping did not work with this case. Just a bad tempermental tube. Thanks all. Case closed.- Mario | |
| New Prima Luna Amp In Distress / Me Too Thanks for the tip Newbee. The errant tube is still with me, so I'll try it. Kevin is out of town and they may be a little swamped at Upscale - but with the Luna up and running, I can be patient.When I added the 6550 into the mix, it was interesti... | |
| New Prima Luna Amp In Distress / Me Too Narrod,Because that's (the 6550) the only tube I could lay my hands on while my replacement KT-88 ships.-Mario | |
| Chailly Mahler 9th Hi JHWalker: Are the Deutsche Grammophon recodings that you mentioned above, LP or CD? If they are CD, are the any better sounding than the vinyl DGs?Bear with me, while I try to straddle the fence here on the issue of sound versus performance. I... | |
| New Prima Luna Amp In Distress / Me Too Hi Vm8444,Yes, I still have my Luna II and am extremely happy with it. Currently it is running with 3 Kt88s and one OS 6550. Thanks to its autobiasing board you can run unmatched and even different compatible tube types and it adjusts and brings e... | |
| Chailly Mahler 9th Texasdave,Enjoyed your review very much. I'm a recent convert to Mahler - so I'm a tableau rasa here, free to sample and taste the full range of offerings. I'll most likely try out Chailly's 9th as soundstage in getting to hear all the nuances is ... | |
| Guilty Pleasure via Reader’s Digest Rushton,Thanks for the correction and the great link.- Mario | |
| New Prima Luna Amp In Distress / Me Too Thanks all - will wait out the weekend. Tube failure and replacements would certainly make me sigh with relief. Might even take the opportunity to roll in other offerings and use the Luna replacements (they are, in fact, covered by a 90-day warran... | |
| Best budget $100 - 200 Phono Pre-amp? Artmaltman,If the stock Sovtech 12AX7 is found wanting, you can always roll another one in. One could always question whether a two tube circuited preamp is providing identical signal handling capabilities without a matched set - and even then ...... | |
| Best budget $100 - 200 Phono Pre-amp? Artmaltman,As I understand it, and audiogoner "Newbee" might be better at explaining it, the symmetrical structure of a vacuum tube allows for addressing two distinct signal paths. In the case of the VP-129, one would have to count on a high degre... |