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| ARC Ref 6 VS. Vac Renaissance MK V I have the Ref 6; it was indeed a bit too forward and lean in bass when paired with a Rogue Ares Magnum phono stage. But recently I paired it with the VAC Renaissance stand-alone phono stage and WOW! That combination blows me away. At this level o... | |
| is th gain on my phono preamp enough for MCoil? 52 db is a suboptimal match for your 0.5 mV Shelter, since it place the signal too far down towards the noise floor. By the time you raise your amp volume to compensate, audible hum & noise is the inevitable result. At 52 db it's really too lo... | |
| Help Identifying Koetsu Onyx Wow, things are looking up again! Koetsu history is just so damn shrouded in mystery. And just when you think you've seen them all...Forgive me for my uninformed prior post. And thanks for posting your findings.That would be really cool if it is i... | |
| Lyra Kleos vs Koetsu Urushi @tsloanKoetsu cartridges have had threaded mounting holes for several years now. I have a couple of older Koetsus without it, and I agree it's a bummer. And trust me, I too thought that the little $10K polished lego bricks were stupid until I hear... | |
| Help Identifying Koetsu Onyx Never seen any stone body look remotely like that. I have both an old non-Platinum Onyx Signature, a low serial-number Onyx Platinum, Coralstone Platinum, and Jade Platinum, lol. Platinum serial numbers start with a "P". Older Koetsu builds don’t ... | |
| So how many people jumped on the PS Audio Black Friday Sale For The BHK Amps And Pre Amp? PS Audio has been segmenting the market for a long time, with big trade-in allowances, refurbished offerings, and huge discounts at certain times (usually around the time they’re discontinuing a product). And I’m sure a lot of those "call for best... | |
| HeadAmp Blue Hawaii HP amp No, not under any circumstances, not even close. This is an extremely precision engineered piece of equipment, designed for driving Stax Pro-bias electrostatic headphones to their maximum potential. It can swing almost 1600 volts of output signal,... | |
| Power supply AC cords: any reason to upgrade? @john_gNo, you wouldn’t want to stack an internal & external SUT. Rather, you’d bypass the internal SUT (i.e. run in MM mode) in favor of the external SUT. Of course this only makes sense if the external SUT is of higher quality than the inter... | |
| Power supply AC cords: any reason to upgrade? In 10 audio's review of the Ares, he notes some minor improvements with use of a PS Audio AC-10 cord, over a DIY cord. He doesn't comment on the stock cord, unfortunately.I currently use an AC-10 on my Ares (coincidence; I had it before I read the... | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! Thanks for posting that; extremely detailed and informative, and interesting! I'm going to parse through it again. I think this can help others, if nothing else to get us thinking about things. The isolation/coupling interfaces for high-end turnta... | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! My instinct says that stacking suspensions and/or squishy layers can have severe unintended consequences, especially the more stuff you layer in there. Keep it limited to 1 suspension or squishy layer, and it should be a good one. I had the "Gramm... | |
| Lyra Delos - Dirt Build up on the cantilever When I first dove into TT ownership 10 years ago, it was all so daunting but the local dealer "Pete" was a great guy (if a bit exhausted with running the shop, and all the changes occurring in the once popular 2ch hobby) -- a lifelong analog guru,... | |
| How expensive are best NOS tubes ? And how difficult to find ? VAC gear is voiced to sound like a VAC with the stock tubes -- which are generally very carefully selected Chinese tubes, but sometimes military overstock NOS. I got mixed results rolling NOS tubes into the Renaissance Mk 3 preamp; the stock tubes... | |
| Questions : Selling here for the first time It’s definitely more convenient, less risk, and less cost to ship within the continental USA. I generally sell USA only, but sometimes certain big-ticket items (e.g extremely un-obtainum OOP high-end headphones) are much more highly in demand in A... | |
| For tube sound, which is more important: preamp or power amp? Either combination can give you a great dose of "tube sound". Of course power tubes need more maintenance, and the NOS flavors of large power tubes quickly approach $$$$/unobtanium territory. BUT there are really excellent Russian power tubes made... |