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| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy @lewm Am no expert but don’t think that’s right re CR type filtering. Pretty sure early Macs, Marantz 7, Fischer 400, and many others used negative feedback in their phono stages. | |
| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy The founder of Leben has indicated that his inspiration for his phono pre (i have one) was the HK Citation IV, which apparently featured CR-type RIAA equalization (no negative feedback). | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers @hjdca pretty system. what are your speakers? | |
| Speakers for 2nd System! I suspect they would mate beautifully with Leben. I’m listening to my Altecs driven by my Leben (with Leben phono pre as well) as we speak. | |
| Speakers for 2nd System! or Pure Audio Project Duet 15, either with horn or Voxativ driver. >96db for about $7k. | |
| Speakers for 2nd System! Tough ask. Rethm Aarkas are 94db, and I think they’re at least $6k. Devore Micr/os are $4k but only 89db. Audio Notes are not 96db. Here’s a wild one: I love the Audience 1+1s. They meet the budget at $4.5k. sensitivity is only 87db, however... | |
| My Favorite Tweaks, What is yours? gummies | |
| Tube Pre-amp Suggestions. Fezz Audio Sagita Prestige - fully balanced tube preamp for $3495. | |
| Need New amp or integrated...have some options I have the Rotel A11 Tribute (last Ishiwata design, apparently) in our bedroom system. Replaced an Audio Refinement Complete integrated, which itself was pretty legendary. Didn’t do a true A/B, but I think the Rotel spanked the AR. And I love t... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project Ben Webster is a personal fave - I have 28 of his lps! Three go tos not mentioned yet include Ben Meets Oscar Peterson, Ben Meets Gerry Mulligan, and Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben (track 2, side 1 is beyond brilliant). | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes white paper @devinplombier Here’s a Fyne white paper on their super tweeter. Notice that it has measurements and actual citations, including to peer reviewed papers published in the Audio Engineering Society Journal. So while there is some co... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @lalitk Cheers my friend. Btw, I’ve recently discovered MJ Acoustics, a UK company that specializes in subwoofers. Long story, but they’re custom finishing a sub to match my restored Altecs in my vintage system. If that project is as successf... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @lalitk You know I love your system, and I’ve always enjoyed your contributions, but I am gonna have to disagree on this one. Am reminded of Ptolemy. For gosh sakes, everybody watched the sun go around the earth, and that fit nicely with some ... | |
| Looking for new speaker cables I am not a “cable denier”, but I am a “cable skeptic”. In other words, I know they can make a difference, but I would never spend more than a couple thousand on a speaker cable, even in a $50k+ system. It bothers me that some cable companies hav... | |
| Recommendations for a new subwoofer? I just recently discovered MJ Acoustics (UK). I’m having a custom finish done on their top of the line sub to match my restomod Altecs, all without hearing (gulp). But their reputation is fantastic, and my experience with respect to their custom... |