miketee
Responses from miketee
| Cat jumped on turntable Dynavector has a re-build service for Karat as long as it was purchased from an authorized dealer. Check with a Dynavector dealer. The rebuild includes tip, cantilever and suspension. | |
| Upgrade cartridge or turntable? As a frustrated and another former Rega RP3 owner, I would unabashedly recommend a different turntable. Aside from any isolation issues, the lack of an easy VTA adjustment for different cartridges is just plain arrogant. Some <$600 turntable... | |
| Recommend speakers for a large living room https://www.muraudio.com/sp1 I heard these Hybrid Electrostatics at AXPONA and they were excellent. With curved panels, dispersion and imaging were magnificent. As I recall, they were well under your maximum. Low WAF if I had to guess but the so... | |
| Integrated Amp Advice - Rogue Sphinx or Peachtree nova150? I owned a Peachtree Nova, I think it was @ 80wpc. Very solid amp punching well outside its weight. It’s been a few years but I recall it was slightly “rough around the edges” to my ears. My main amp was a Primaluna tube integrated though. Recently... | |
| PRIMA LUNA DIALOGUE PREMIUM - 20 minutes and then loud pop and buzzing in 1 channel I own the PL Dialogue Premium Integrated amp and experienced something similar but not the same. It DID turn out to be a bad 12AU7. PL suggests a specific process in my manual. When I first switched a few tubes it wasn’t in the logical process P... | |
| What equipment have you bought this year so far ? Odd pair but they sound pretty good!Kenwood C2 preampNuPrime STA-9 Power amp | |
| Song (or music) you want played at your funeral. Celebrate - Kool and the GangMy life is good and has been so I’d hope everyone attending would celebrate the good times. | |
| PRIMA LUNA AMPLIFIERS I’ve owned my PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium for almost three and a half years with zero issues. Tube rolling easy as pie. | |
| How much difference will a phono stage upgrade make? Every move in the phono stage link has made a big difference, positive and/negative. I’m currently using a Musical Surroundings Phonomena ii which I like a lot and is VERY flexible for just about any cart you throw at it. There’s a ii+ out now. | |
| Why the facination with integrated amps? My first “real” stereo had a front end Sansui 5000 receiver, some years later (40+ years), through solid state integrated amps and separates, solid state amps/tube preamps, big amps and small amps, I finally stopped chasing audio perfection (does... | |
| anyone know anything about primaluna gear...... I went through lots of solid state options before buying my Primaluna Dialogue Premium. Driving a pair of Spendor A6, not the most efficient loudspeakers but the combination is excellent. I do occasionally consider trying something like VAC or C... | |
| Should I upgrade my system while losing my hearing? A friend with severe hearing loss got some newer hi-tech digital hearing aids, bought a new Naim Supernait 2 and hasn’t looked back. Loves it. | |
| MAC Autoformers? Interesting discussion. I’ve always wanted a McIntosh. The big integrated with the 5-band EQ. The only thing ever stopping me was my pocketbook. | |
| What area or country do you live in ? Woodridge, Illinois just a bit west of Chicago. Current temperature is 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Listening to Trio Da Paz guitar through tube integrated so double toasty warm. | |
| Need help with preamp settings for Dynavector 10x5 Manley Chinook looks like 45dB gain (MM) and 47k ohms loading which works fine. I’m using 40dB gain and 50k ohm with my Phonomena ii. Been thinking about bumping the gain a bit where I think it might sound just a tad better. |