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| Turntable isolation platform Recommendations? Silent Running Audio are swamped with orders.Try email Tim at silent Running Audio dot comBut be prepared to wait months. Worth it! | |
| Technics SP10 MK3 Restoration Is a Technics SP10-MK III in an appropriate plinth well restored better than a Woodsong Garrard 301?I guess the question is DD or Idler drive?I enjoy the physicality, drive and PRAT of the 301. | |
| The best tube poweramp. . What do you think about ? +1 Atma-SphereM-60 or MA-1Super reliable with excellent detail and tone.Believe it has more detail than VAC. | |
| Turntable isolation platform Recommendations? +1 SRA-Silent Running Audio platform.Recommended to me by Ralph Karsten, my Ohio Class platform under my Woodsong Garrard 301 was transformative. The improvement in SQ was huge. SRA builds these platforms to specifically function for the component... | |
| So how much do you think the placebo effect impacts our listening preferences? This reference frequently refers to alternative treatments like acupuncture or hypnosis. Acupuncture for sure and hypnosis when the subject is open to it. | |
| Amplification: what are the biggest advances of the last 40 years? +1 @atmasphere The greatest innovation in amplifier technology is the fairly recent leap in Class D development that made them as smooth as tube amps. | |
| So how much do you think the placebo effect impacts our listening preferences? “Expectation bias” really refers to being fooled to think that the SQ is better because of the price. | |
| So how much do you think the placebo effect impacts our listening preferences? Think the parallel would be expectation bias.Certainly price has a lot to “expect”. I believe that within the line of any Audio company the price dictates the SQ. Considering diminishing returns. And, mostly, being able to point out a sweet spot.B... | |
| Amplification: what are the biggest advances of the last 40 years? My thread “Is there a SS amp that can satisfy a SET guy?”.Today, the answer is yes… the best of Class D.And, IME, the question can be expanded to include all tube amps and all non class d SS amps.And speaking of “the best” class d, I anxiously awa... | |
| Vibration - What are the Main Sources? The two obvious and central components needing vibration control are the TT and speakers. IME, other component also benefit but the improvements are more subtle. | |
| Rank the tweaks, geeks! I don’t consider cables a tweak. Rather they are a main component. | |
| Rank the tweaks, geeks! Without question, a great tweak was an Ohio Class SRA platform under my TT. It was like this sophisticated complex piece of gear was finally able to perform as designed.And a recent innovation in my system is QSA light blue fuses in my mono blocks... | |
| SOUNDLAB ULTIMATE 545 hi pinotnoirThinking about the CAT JL-7. A very nice match for SLs.But the Atma-Sphere MA-1 or MA-2 would also be excellent.I am a big Atma-Sphere fan.The output transformers in the CAT are superb but there is nothing like an OTL. And if you play ... | |
| SOUNDLAB ULTIMATE 545 If you can get CAT amps do it! And their preamp is also excellent.Your 545s deserve the best! And I believe they will be a great match with the SLs. | |
| Fluids.... Keith Monks discOvery with the KM RCM works for me.If good enough for the Library of Congress, BBC, etc. …When I apply the fluid with a brush I can see the whitish decavitation. And then the arm and nozzle suck up the dirty fluid one grove at a ti... |