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| Nakamichi PA7 versus PA7 II I bought my Nakamichi PA-7A mkII in 1990 for $2200, and it’s still one of the best amps I’ve ever owned. After about 20yrs tho, it was sounding dark and sluggish, so I took it to a Threshold expert, and he recapped the whole thing (not cheap! $140... | |
| Schiit Aegir-Burn in Period I just got an Aegir 2 today, and within first 20 minutes, pushed it into protection mode. It simply couldn't handle some serious George Duke funk! Oh... and I'm running it into my Cornwall IV's. I really like the sound so far, but the high's ha... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @milpai Thanks, that's a great tip. Didn't know that. But it does make sense. Many times the official Help within a program is lacking, and I just ask the same technical question in Google and get the answer I need. Very often there's a Youtube... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system So is Audiogon's search good for ANYTHING?? I really like this thread, purely about equalizers, but if I search discussions for "equalizer" it doesn't find it.... at all! Even if I type all the words of the exact title "Equalizer in a HiFi syste... | |
| Ortofon Cadenza vs. old Ortofon MC30 Super2 ? Looking at the Modwright description, your MC input is an internal SUT. So your noise spec should be great either way. Just comparing the sound of 2 different SUTs. | |
| Ortofon Cadenza vs. old Ortofon MC30 Super2 ? @theflattire Yes.... certainly if you're happy.. then leave it alone. The MC stage in the Parasound is active. I had the JC3 for ~8 years, and happy with the sound, but the noise bugged me. I liked my SUT sound too, but there was that resolut... | |
| Ortofon Cadenza vs. old Ortofon MC30 Super2 ? @theflattire I just looked at the HM-7's and HM-5's. Do you also use that switch box that they're currently being sold with? Have you ever vigorously compared using the SUT vs. just the MC gain stage? (if u have one) I'm wondering if you get... | |
| Ortofon Cadenza vs. old Ortofon MC30 Super2 ? @theflattire Cool that you are still running that old cart! There were some interim steps not mentioned. I first tried to replace it with a Soundsmith Zephyr mkII or mk3. ($1200) Very very nice cart.... but so nice that it was boring. I used it fo... | |
| Help me pick a Dac I recently purchased both a Denafrips Ares II and a Schiit Bifrost 2. I did NOT like the Ares at all, and I do love the Bifrost. I also have a 10yr old Lynx Hilo, which sounds very nice, but very different from the Bifrost. Bifrost is more punch... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @ellajeanelle For looks AND performance, it would be hard to beat the new McIntosh MQ112. | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @jtcf I'm assuming you are new to API eq. API EQ's have long been a standard in studios. The most famous model 550 has stepped controls. This is both sonically superior, AND more easily & accurately recalled at a later time. This new API e... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @tlcocks As for stringing chains of processors together, if you read or watch anything about mixers TODAY, you can bet they are chaining digital plugins, and the noise & distortion simply does not add up like with analog gear. Also... those... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @tlcocks Thanks for checking on that PEQ-1.... Yeah I had a noise problem pop up on mine. There's an op-amp chip responsible for each EQ band and I swapped them around until I found the offending ones. I moved the noisy one from the 2k band to t... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @tlcocks I'm so sad that I'd gotten a bum Charter Oak unit. Looking back thru emails, I bought it in 2011 when it first came out, and within a month I had to return it with several problems. I got it back, and it was better, but it still had issu... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system I may need to sell a few items out of my rack first, not only for the money, but to make space for a Michelangelo. The review above is as enticing to an engineer like me, as it is horrifying to the audiophile purists out there, who are thinking, ... |