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| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? @mdalton Lamborghini is a tractor company. It should be agricultural blue. There is no question in my mind that active phono stages are superior in every way. They are much less finicky in terms of placement, are quieter, have more gain and are ... | |
| Refurbished / Re-tipped Cartridges - Are they worth Buying? @lalitk Don't let @lewm fool you. He worked at Wuhan (just kidding) Lew that rather large drop of glue is a Soundsmith trademark. If you look at this post and compare mounting techniques, Ortofon uses a similar method. https://imgur.com/gallery/... | |
| Refurbished / Re-tipped Cartridges - Are they worth Buying? I agree entirely with @lewm. It is impossible to know what you are getting with anyone but the original manufacturer. Soundsmith is a safe bet for retipping as they have the experience of a manufacturer although it is still impossible to know what... | |
| Refurbished / Re-tipped Cartridges - Are they worth Buying? When it comes to most moving coil cartridges "retipping" is a misnomer. They simply hand you a new cartridge in exchange for the old one. What happens to the old one is a mystery. My guess is that most of them find the round file. I personally wo... | |
| Dirac Live Calibration @navyachts No, you should keep the M1 for your main speakers and buy a less expensive unit for the subs. | |
| Audiomods Is A Great Company @whart Right Bill. I will get the low profile unit as it will go into my wall unit, the granite is at bar height, 42" and I am getting shorter by the minute. I am down to 5'6" from 5'8" I would have to get a ladder to use your table. | |
| Subwoofer Advice There you go. Do exactly what I said with the deep bass boost. You have to dive in. Just keep the volume low and you can not hurt anything. There is also nothing you can't undo. | |
| Dirac Live Calibration I do not know for sure. You have to take that up with Martin Logan but what you showed me indicates that it can be done. If you go with subs the MiniDSP and Dirac would be the ultimate set up. Either the plain SHD or the Studio will replace your... | |
| Audiomods Is A Great Company @wrm57 Thank you for that tip. it sounds like a great idea. My plan was to get everything, now including your top plate, weigh it all together to get the right sized MinusK. Your plate seems like a great device for a constrained layer construct, a... | |
| Toe in is crucial Toe in changes the speakers relationship to the room as well as the listener. These variables are not easy to account for. So, it is very much a trial and error undertaking. First it is important to deal with first reflection points on the side wa... | |
| Please help me! Sir, by your self description you would be much better off with a solid state integrated that has tube characteristics like the Pass Labs INT 60. Team this with the Harbeth SHL5+ loudspeaker and you with have the system of your dreams. You will al... | |
| Comprehensive installation instructions for cartridge in a tonearm. dcaudio, I think Mike Fremer has a YouTube on that subject. The steps do depend on the tools you have for setting the overhang and offset angle. Your tonearm does not have instructions and a gauge? It is really not that hard. I you tell me what ar... | |
| Audiomods Is A Great Company @neonknight No, it is not available yet. A new one is immanent. I think it will be Eclipse drive, not direct, but I do not know that for sure. Next time I talk to Christan I will ask. @lewm Correct, a poor man's Dohmann with vacuum clamping and ... | |
| Dirac Live Calibration If you get one of the MiniDSP SHD units you will not need any ones help. You just place the subs where you want them and run the program. It is self explanatory. The SHD will need an ethernet connection to your router and a USB connection to your ... | |
| Audiomods Is A Great Company Hey Neon, I have wanted a turntable I could mount a Schroder LT or Reed 5T on and nothing out there has the features on the Cosmos Eclipse Vacuum. A few days ago I had a brilliant Idea. I am going to take a Sota Millenium Vacuum, remove it's susp... |