mulveling
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| Viva, no longer a fan Thanks for sharing this and calling Viva Audio out -- this hobby needs a LOT more call-outs like this.There is a long list of companies that produce fine quality gear AND show their pride in workmanship by offering exemplary, reasonable cost servi... | |
| Headphone or Rig? Stax is definitely the way to go with headphones. In the past 2 years I've gone back and forth in my preference between my headphone and speaker rigs, while tweaking/upgrading both. Currently, speakers represent the better overall listening experi... | |
| Would you go all 1 brand for electronics? I'm running the full line of Rogue's top components: Apollo monoblocs, Hera II preamp, Ares phono. An absolutely fantastic match with my Tannoy Canterbury. There are no worries about sonic matching between components -- they all gel together. The ... | |
| Telefunken in Disguise? If they were actually Mazda/Belvu tubes, then they might actually sound BETTER than Telefunkens. E.g. with 12ax7 types, I easily prefer the Mazda chrome-plate over either Telefunken variant, and Mazda tubes in general tend to sound pretty damn goo... | |
| recabling my Stax sr-009 to pure copper cable It's been said that since Stax are largely capacitative devices, low cable capacitance is the most important parameter by far (more so than conductivity). That's why Stax makes the cables flat. And that's why traditional cable design "logic" doesn... | |
| Hot off the press: Yggdrasil review Grannyring was just making a pretty valid point, geez. No need to jump on him like he stole something from you. I do have a new Yggdrasil running in, actually. It's a nice unit but I think perhaps the R2R vs D-S DAC thing has become a bit of a fad... | |
| Best loudspeaker with coincident/coaxial driver I love Tannoy and have owned some models over the years (Eyris DC3, Dimension TD10, Kensington SE, Canterbury SE), and heard several more. Lots of great speakers there, particularly the Prestige line. But I'd be wary of the 10A and recommend audit... | |
| Woofer pumping WHY?? The phono stage needs to roll off below 20Hz. Otherwise you're playing with fire, as you've observed. Some phono stages do, and others don't...but it's stupid not to. | |
| Ringing new NOS tube, is it safe? Certain vintage tubes have a tough time in phono stages or in high gain line stages because of microphonics and/or other noise. You have to consider the gain of the position you're putting the tube in, plus the net downstream gain. Some tube selle... | |
| Matching Koetsu Stone Body Platinum Cartridge The Onyx and Jade Platinums sound very, very similar. So much so, that I think the minor differences I hear in my system are just as likely due to unit-to-unit variations that the actual stone material (e.g. some Koetsu cantilevers are angled to r... | |
| What tube preamp is a step up from Rogue Magnum 99 I'm a Rogue fan too, but frankly I'm uninterested in a new 3K+ preamp that uses a quad of 12AU7, as their RP5 does. Seems they haven't done any new flagship-level tube stuff since the Apollo.The 6H30 based Hera (Athena too) works magic in my syste... | |
| What tube preamp is a step up from Rogue Magnum 99 Get the Rogue Athena. The 99 is nice, but the Athena is way better sounding and well worth the price difference (which Rogue hasn't ever raised, yet). I also prefer the Athena/Hera to the VAC Renaissance III line stage -- however the sonic signatu... | |
| Ortofon's new A95 - titanium SLM cartridge Ortofon offers trade-in/up value of 25% MSRP on their cartridges -- such a paltry amount is not tempting in the face of reasonable-rate 3rd party re-tippers and Ortofon's own rebuild program (which runs around 50% of MSRP). In light of that, I dou... | |
| Addendum to Vinyl is always my #1 source, but computer audio has definitely come a long way. There are (finally) really nice sounding USB DACs in the 2K-3K range -- no moving parts there, and it's really very enjoyable sonically, even if you have a high-end a... | |
| Windfield Cartridge Stringreen,Thanks for the generous offer, but after careful consideration I'm ~99% decided on a new Windfeld, to give it another shot in my evolved system (better speakers, better TT and arm). I had treble peakiness issues (i.e. ear-sear) with it ... |