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| McIntosh - is it that great? I question whether this post will make it here, and I'm no krell basher at all, but I read the comments about McIntosh Gear being considerably overpriced, but yet rarely ever read a comment about krell, or Levinson gear being overpriced.Usually I ... | |
| VPI SDS Calibration Gurus? Hi Jameswei, Thank you again for your help, as I'm sure you've helped me with avice here in the past.I hadn't considered what you've said about the SDS in relation to the various VPI (or other Tables), in which owners wished to implement the SDS i... | |
| Question about VPI Warranties To chime in again about VPI, I too have nothing but praise about them. In '97 I bought my HW-19Jr from Jim at MusicDirect (Walk-In Sale). Well around 2000-2001, I had noticed one day the Platter had cracked in about 6-7 places originating from the... | |
| McCormack Micro phono drive Hi Triagle, I owned a McCormack Micro Phono Drive for many years, I purchased mine new from Musicdirect, a very darn good unit, that gave me years of flawless service without even the slightest hiccup. I cannot properly answer your specific questi... | |
| anyone used the Sutherland Phd high gain card? Hi Jack, Thank you for helping out here with your findings, and hopefully the original poster will see this, and be assured that the Sutherland will be up to the task to meet his needs.If not, this info goes to the archives, where others who may b... | |
| anyone used the Sutherland Phd high gain card? Hi again, Yes, from what I can see, the Lyra Titan "Stereo" Cartridge is rated at .5mv, and the ZYX Airy 3 is I believe rated at .34mv.The Sutherland is as I understand a dual mono design, anfd therefore uses two boards per channel (Gain+Loading) ... | |
| anyone used the Sutherland Phd high gain card? I have a Sutherland PhD, and I love it! A very awesome Unit, which works flawlessly. Dead quiet, and I noticed a very nice improvement with separation of musical instruments, and voices on all my LP's.Of course I'm using a hi-output original Benz ... | |
| CAL Alpha and an Equalizer Hello MrTennis, and Newbie,To speak of my own personal findings with my own (Bought new in 1997) Sigma II, and my bought used from A-Gon Alpha DAC, I have noticed quite substantial changes in the sound, and here's my own personal experiences with ... | |
| CAL Alpha and an Equalizer Hi again all,I'd like to conclude this post, and end it with some very nice news, that all is well in CAL Alpha-Land!As was later suspected, and through the help of all you kind helpful folks here, and especially Tom (Zinfan) the CAL Alpha has bee... | |
| Cheap DAC with high output voltage Hi, I've personally found, and many other here have also mentioned too, that the California Audio Labs (CAL Alpha DAC thows a quite hot output signal.Factory rated at 3.5V, some have said it's closer to actually being 4V. A $1450 Tube DAC when it ... | |
| CAL Alpha and an Equalizer Hi all again,I've come to this realization about the Cal Alpha (through the archives) and perhaps other equipment like this, that shares similar qualities.Tube rolling is the key to suitable sound, but one sad fact, is that if one wants to put in ... | |
| CAL Alpha and an Equalizer Hi Newbie, You mentioned brand, but not number of Tube?I assume by "EH", you are referring to Electro-Harmonix, correct?Is it the 12AX7 EH you refer to?Of course too, there are a number of different model Sovtek in 12AX7 (3 I believe?) Was it the ... | |
| CAL Alpha and an Equalizer Hi again all,No, I think the transport is fine, has always worked just fine. Sure, I'll agree, and won't debate there's probably 100's of transports out there that will easily best the CAL Delta I have. Running a search through the archives on the... | |
| CAL Alpha and an Equalizer Hi Bob, Thank you for your response, and assurance that I didn' make a mistake about the Attenuators.At the time, I hadn't thought of this, but I recall Cal Audio Labs used to ship the Alpha DAC from the factory with some resistors to alter-modify... | |
| CAL Alpha and an Equalizer Hiend2, You stated the attenuators will upset the input impedance? I assume you mean the input impedence going into my preamplifier, correct?Cann anyone else comment about this? I'll ask too, Scott Endler about this.Then you say Hiend, "Get the Al... |