mickeyf

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Recommend me a new PHONO stage.
Lehmann SE fits that budget, lottsa grunt for your 103 and no real negatives. 
Best turntable setup for under $300
Rega P2/Planar 2 (only with the RB250 arm not the older s-shaped one)USED. Often comes up around your price, sometimes with a decent cartridge that has enough life left to get you started. The older Planar 2 is a little nicer looking (and has the ... 
ProAc vs Totem vs Usher, please comment
I havent heard the others but I have the Forests (now for over a year). in a 19x 14 x 8.5 foot room driven by a Pass X250. They do great bass and play incredibly loud, they move air, and they image extraordinarily well for floorstanders. Prior to ... 
buzz from one phono preamp more than another?
Adding to Bish's comment, I tried using a small high intensity desk lamp beside my table, and the transformer produced a crazy hum in my phono pre. I have an lehmann se currently not in use and it's dead quiet. I have read previously also that Gra... 
Ever so slight platter wobble
So, then does the spindle wobble in it's seating with the platter off? ie can you shift it even slightly from side to side with the platter removed but the spindle's in place?ie not 'flesbible' but flexible,ar ar. 
Ever so slight platter wobble
Were you working the camera in the Blair Witch Project? I actually threw up a bit in my mouth a bit watching that....Anyway, is it sandwiched?, like the top of the spindle and the underside thread together to clamp the platter? or through and just... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
I've just spun Kaleidoscope (the American band featuring David Lindley) Side Trips c 1967, rereleased, picked up at a record show, mostly because of an affinity for Lindley's post Jackson Browne stuff. i have a feeling Mr. Bungle might have played... 
low output mc: noise free listening possible?
No noise (at all) from my Modwright SWLP (separate power supply).No noise from my Lehmann SE. Through Audio Mirror PP1 linestage side or through Crimson Electric 510.Slight background buzz at relatively high levels with Audio Mirror PP1 noticeable... 
Need DIP switch settings for Lehmann Blk Cube
Mine's an Se, but dont think they changed it.1,2,3,4 switches.MM/47kOhm all offMC 47kohm 1 onMC 470 ohm 1,2 onMC 100 ohm 1, 4 onMC 80 ohm 1,2 4 onCustom load 1, 3 on * by adding a resistor in slot 3.Hope this helps,finski 
Whats your current Reference CD at the moment?
Danlib1:If you're 80, she's still hot. 
Anyone running Totem Forests w/Dreamcatcher subs?
Yeah Pass X250, typo. I was going to respond about this reference CD on the coincident thread but I just couldn't bear to get serious after the Romper Room post. Anyway with Bela Fleck's Cosmic Hippo, I can get a tremendous 'curtain dance' going o... 
Anyone running Totem Forests w/Dreamcatcher subs?
I have Forests in a decent size room, about 14 x 20 plus an L off to one side and nothing lacking there at all, all the picture frames have been nubbed on the back to keep them from chiming in. Mind you the Pss X250 might be considered a bit overk... 
Modwright SWLP 9.0se dip settings
Thanks kindly to 2 gents who responded by email. Wonderful. 
why so many benchmark dac1's on audiogon?
I questioned this in another audio site forum at least two years ago, and there was a very large number of DAC1s for sale here then, as I was considering buying one (I didn't - I ended up buying a one-box Raysonic). My perception at the time was a... 
Suggestions for preamp compatible with Pass X250?
Presently using an old Crimson Electric 510 with a Musical fidelity X-LPS v3 (Denon 103 on SOTA Star setup). Was also using an Anthem TLP-1 which was way too low on gain (planned to sell anyway). The 510 was 'borrowed' for the time being from a se...