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| Graham Phamtom III Reference tonearm A bit unusual to call the III a "reference" tonearm, since it coincided with the release of the Graham Phantom Elite - which remains their defacto reference tonearm. Anyways, I owned its immediate predecessor - the Phantom II Supreme (a.k.a. Pha... | |
| Wasted Years. Continues to baffle me how audiophiles seem to want to deny they are in fact audiophiles. I know I’m going to repeat myself. But why on earth would I want to deny I listen to the sound quality or qualities produced by this system I spent so much ... | |
| Wasted Years. Often the learning process takes longer than we'd like. Sometimes waaaay longer...but on the flip side, those tend to be the lessons we REALLY learn. It's part of the process nonetheless, so I'd hesitate to call it "wasted" time. This hobby shoeh... | |
| Is bi amping worth it ? No, it really was not worth it in the end. Tried it several times and a few ways, with the same of each amp. Vertical and horizontal configs. It could sound "exciting" at first, but never convinced me to stick that way for longn. Seemed less mus... | |
| The law of diminshing returns? DACs, turntables (not including carts & phono stages), and cables are perhaps the best subjects for diminishing returns. The "extravagance tier" models employ absurd over-engineering plus gimmicks to justify their cost. These models will certa... | |
| Integrated Headphone amp with moving coil phono stage Unfortunately there’s almost zero market in hifi for the intersection of these things, so anything you come across that gets close is almost certain to use low cost off-the-shelf chip based solutions for most (if not all) of the functions you requ... | |
| I'm a little perplexed/surprised by TMR and who sells to them..... I’ve had many purchases from TMR, all good in the end. A few of my favorite acquisitions have come though them. Their stock list is excellent and they’re definitely taking market share away from other secondary sales sites - rightfully so, in many... | |
| The Cable Company advice? I bought a few items from TCC a few years back. Nothing extravagant, but 500 - 1000 a pop. As a customer, I'm easy as: "here's what I want, please take my money". Nontheless, my assigned salesperson seemed to lose interest and fell off at some poi... | |
| Adding Volume control to an older preamp Saga2’s output imp. being 4.7kohm does not mean its output imp. is also 4.7kohm. I believe all Schiit preamps (not headphone amp/preamp) have a standard 10kohm input imp. My undestanding of "true" passives is that input and output impedances a... | |
| Has anyone sold over $35k worth of equipment over the net? How do you protect yourself? More like 15K of gear in this market :p There’s no way to 100% de-risk anything. That said, I’ve sold a lot of audio components over the years (always at a loss), certainly into 6-figures, and no incidents of note. I’ve only ever sold through de... | |
| Adding Volume control to an older preamp The Chase appears to employ a digital IC chip for its core volume control. That can be fine, and indeed some very high-end preamps employ this method (e.g. ARC Reference) - but for someone concerned with length of ICs, the choice of volume control... | |
| Adding Volume control to an older preamp I’ve been using longer (~16 feet) XLR ICs from preamp to power amp in my 2nd system, with no discernible penalty. It’s perfectly fine to go that way. The passive route would probably work OK too, but I haven’t tried that yet. I was once looking a... | |
| ??? Where Does "High End" Start ??? If you look at the top most expensive systems on here or other "extreme" audiophile hang-outs (god help you if it’s WBF), you’ll quickly find that even $5K per component is considered very cheap. "Performance" is a different matter and a whole ’... | |
| "Users of wide-range playback equipment should compensate for the RIAA curve" I’m certain they’re telling you to specifically use RIAA phono equalization - which is of course the defaut for virtually all phono stages, now. But I agree the choice of wording was poor. If they were using ANY other curve to cut that record, the... | |
| Cable Enthusiasts. When it comes to cables it’s about quality and matching. THOUGHTS? Cabling makes a difference, but its net effect in specific instances (good versus bad) can be very random. I think many of us (including myself) have/had a strong bias to asssume more expensive cabling should sound better is some way - but that’s ... |