mikelavigne
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| Revamp Garrard 301, keep Oracle V or move along? first, you can't go wrong whichever. the Oracle V is quite a good tt. your 301 is quite the beauty too. nice job on the plinth. it does not get much better than the Io Sig.if i were you i would find another arm board for your Garrard and mount the... | |
| Platter Upgrade for Garrard 301 But if one owns such an TT as an Rockport and is still not fully satisfied then,I am afraid,I have no answer......you are not the first to question why i am traveling down this road....but 'not fully satisfied' with the Rockport is not the answer ... | |
| Platter Upgrade for Garrard 301 Nandric;......are outdated TT and more the objects of 'nostalgia' than something else.if one has as a reference a current SOTA tt (such as me with my Rockport or Albert with his Walker among a few who have gone down this road) and we listen and vo... | |
| Platter Upgrade for Garrard 301 Porter and Dobbins, sounds like a Law firmactually, sounds like a Whisky. anyway; i agree and have also learned much from those two Gentleman. | |
| Life after DarTZeel in the Stereophile test on the darTZeel NHB-108 stereo amp John Atkinson did measure 160 watts into 8 ohms prior to clipping. so the 100 watt spec is quite conservative. i had the dart on the VR7SE's in my very large room for 5 months and i agree ... | |
| Life after DarTZeel Mtdking; Jbellow, in the post after you, mentioned Bryston. then in my post, i grouped it in with the Levinson and Boulder as mentioned 'next amps' after darTZeel without attribution.i'm sure my mention confused who actually referred to what amp. ... | |
| Life after DarTZeel were i to venture from darTZeel it would be toward SET tubes of some sortE, my point here was that if i were to venture away from musical neutrality into an amplifier with a sonic signature it would be toward the 'beauty' end of the spectrom. i dr... | |
| Life after DarTZeel Mtdking, i owned the Levinson 33H's for 2 years (1997-1999). a really fine amplifier.....i replaced them with the big Levinson 33's. the 33H is still one of the more 'listenable' solid state amps out there. i know that it has been somewhat updated... | |
| Life after DarTZeel interesting.Levinson 33H, Boulder 1060 and Bryston 28B preferred to darTZeel.there are many paths and viewpoints to musical nirvana.....and there is no 'wrong' only different. my comment has no hidden inference.personally; were i to venture from d... | |
| Air Tight Supreme compared to PC-1 to add my 2 cents to Lew's perspective; i would put more stock in Albert's perspective on the degree of improvement with the Supreme than Valin's. OTOH 8 years ago i purchased my Kharma Exquisite Reference 1D speakers sight unseen almost 100% due ... | |
| Air Tight Supreme compared to PC-1 all he has is that Pizza under a bridge by his old school :^)......and the blond waitress at the Pizza place.....Albert, last time i was at the Northlake 'that' blond was asking about you. my wife wondered just what you did to make such an impress... | |
| Air Tight Supreme compared to PC-1 rather than me relating hearsay to you.....i recommend you read Albert Porter's 'System' thread, his Technics SP-10 Mk3 thread, or e-mail him about this question. he has owned a couple of PC-1's and now owns the Supreme....he has had the PC-1's on... | |
| Al Stiefel of RMAF Has Passed Away Wow. This is very sad and a real loss. My thoughts and prayers are with Al's wife and family.I met Al prior to the first RMAF and and then saw him at all the RMAF's. He was always a gentleman and i really appreciated his efforts on behalf of the a... | |
| Dartzeel 108 amp driving Wilson Watt/Puppy 8 i agree with Cincy bob that the darTZeel will be happy on the WP8. i have heard a number of different speakers with the darTZeel and the dart has always had that 'live-ness' and 'musicality'. what the dart excells at will come thru; which is to so... | |
| Dartzeel 108 hi Rodrigo,i've not tried the darTZeel NHB-108NS/JM Labs Micro Utopia Be combo; however i have listened to the dart with a number of speaker systems and have listened to the Micro Utopia Be a number of times and i do have an opinion on how the com... |