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| Which New Preamp To Get ? What's your budget? | |
| Help selecting amplification with phono Redglobe, I have two questions: 1) Is your $1600 budget for amp, preamp and phone stage? If so, I don't think you can make a significant upgrade to all three. If your amp and speakers work well together, keep them and focus on upgrading your pream... | |
| Audible Illusions Preamp I'm shocked to hear people say the Modulus 3A lacks dynamics. It must be an equipment mismatch. I'm intimately familiar with it in a system where it feeds a pair of Plinius SA100 MKIII driving a pair of Shahinian Hawks. The front end is a VPI MK I... | |
| Recommend a preamp for Denon Dl 160 Davidnboone,I read the posts on Vinyl Engine about loading the DL-160 at 1k ohms. I don't doubt there's an audible difference between 47k and 1k, but I wouldn't make a mountain out of a mole hill. I'm not dismissing the thread, but I question whet... | |
| Recommend a preamp for Denon Dl 160 Cambridge Azur 640P for under $150 should be a big improvement over the built-in phono stage. You also need to make sure the cartridge is aligned correctly. What did you use for a protractor? | |
| Best 6 inch speaker cable suggestions needed. There was a forum not too long ago where Ralph Karsten of Atma-Sphere described his positive experience using 3" cables connecting speakers to tube amps. He had a technical explanation for the reason behind the benefit, but I don't recall the deta... | |
| Best 6 inch speaker cable suggestions needed. Frankk, do you have any observations to report on your short speaker cables? I'm considering the same thing. | |
| step up from rotel? Good suggestions above. Belles 150 is excellent for the price. | |
| RB301 Rewire....Worth It? If the cartridge tag can be repaired, I'd do that. However, if you want to rewire your arm, a cheaper alternative to the Incognito is the Cardas Tone Arm Rewire Service. They use the same 33 awg Cardas wire that's in the Incognito. I have no conne... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil I wound a pair of 2.7 mH inductors last year using 10 awg wire. I found the process extremely clumsy. I did it by hand sitting on the floor using my feet to hold the spool steady while I carefully laid the wire around a wooden dowel. It was tediou... | |
| Replacement arm for my Micro Seiki DD24? If you want to keep things simple, and keep costs down, get a tonearm with the same pivot-to-spindle distance as the original arm. Otherwise, you'll have to drill a new hole and deal with mounting it correctly. I don't know what tonearm came with ... | |
| Looking for guidance with older VPI HW-19 tables Gerardff, thanks for your encouragement, but I'm not looking for a table any more. I picked up an Oracle Delphi a few months ago. I still haven't found time to get it up and running. It needs some work. Thanks again to all who responded to this th... | |
| AppleTV work with USB DAC? Tom, I've been extremely happy with a Van Den Hul Optocoupler connecting Airport Express to my DAC. The only thing that bugs me is having to use a cheap plastic mini-adaptor to make it work. The one I have came from Parts Express. The connection d... | |
| Micro Seiki CF-1 hole diameter Malammik, I don't think it will fit without enlarging the hole. If you look in the CF-1 manual from Vinyl Engine, under the category Tonearm Installation,it clearly says: After setting the tonearm position, drill a 28 mm diameter hole for the tone... | |
| AppleTV work with USB DAC? When using the Apple TV, is there any way to select songs and playlists remotely via computer rather than the TV screen? Or is the ATV inseparable from the TV? |