mijostyn
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| Great phono stage, with character, for a digital pre Why not buy the NAD pair which you like? HiFi electronics are not supposed to have "character." They are supposed to pass an electric signal from one end to the other unscathed except for amplification. Any character they possess is distortion. L... | |
| Tube stereo sounds -smaller- after being on First you have to figure out which piece of equipment is causing the problem. Fortunately you have two systems. You take each piece of equipment in the bad system, one at a time, over to the good system. When the problem tracks to the good system ... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @peterayer , You choose what sounds right based on, design considerations and measurements especially when it comes to tonearms. @neonknight , I also have a Cosmos. The TriPlanar is a great arm but it will not fit on a Cosmos. That dropped rear e... | |
| Should I buy an SME 30/12A for 15K? Absolutely, as long as it is in good shape and it is shipped in it's original packing. It is a fine turntable. It will outperform 95% of the turntables out there. | |
| Speakers that are good with tubes @carlsbad 1+ . Efficiency and high impedance. Horn speakers rule here. Klipsch Cornwalls are a favorite. | |
| End Game Turntable suggestions @pindac, it is another lesson that mass alone does not work. Certain materials are more prone to ringing, some are intrinsically better damped. Examples of the later are aluminum and most wood over a certain thickness. Panzerholtz is resin infused... | |
| High-end-turntables I also find it helpful to talk with the people I am buying equipment from, on the phone, with a living person. The reason credit cards are so safe is that they have contracted with the business to be able to use their cards and it is the respons... | |
| Experience With Linear Tracking Turntables @lohanimal , you have to be very careful about things making "sense." Just because they make sense does not mean they are right. The whole climate hoax is a perfect example. The best thing to do is delineate the proven facts and go from there. You... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @kota1 , what I see in those pictures is a whole bunch of cheap loudspeakers scattered about a room that was not originally designed for audio. Not my kind of system. @thespeakerdude is correct that DSP can do nothing about dispersion which is w... | |
| SPU People: I love my Royal N. Which SPU will I like even better? @edgewear , Howard Johnson's made 28 flavors but we know there is only one ice CREAM and that is vanilla. There is no accounting for bad taste otherwise. What you are doing is making excuses for inferior equipment. If your taste leads you in that... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @donavabdear , Movies are an entirely different proposition and usually a very different audience. Things move around in movies and people love hearing that motion in sound. Imagine Thelonious Monk loading his piano onto an F1 car and driving it a... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @thespeakerdude , There is no accounting for taste. There is no explanation for it, never will be. Some people prefer to listen to systems that are too bright or have too much bass. A sales technique we use to use was to figure out what the person... | |
| End Game Turntable suggestions The job of a turntable is to spin at the proper speed, prevent any spurious vibration from getting to the tonearm and sound like NOTHING. Anything it adds to "the sound" is distortion. The job of the tonearm is to hold the cartridge solidly in th... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @kota1 , That wall is on the sunny side of the house. I built the house 30 years ago and all the windows on that side need to be replaced. It was a lot cheaper to cover it over. You would never know there was a window there. Right at this moment ... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @kota1 , It is great that Anthem makes this kind of gear at a more reasonable price. Their equipment is a real value. Their processor is nowhere near as flexible as the TacT and I am use to that level of flexibility. I did not get the Trinnov beca... |