mulveling
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| Phono Preamp Gain I’d agree that he’d realize huge performance gains going to one of those fine tube/hybrid phonos over a budget SS like the Schiit. I have the Herron and a VAC Renaissance after upgrading through phono stages for years; both are absolutely fantasti... | |
| Phono Preamp Gain Really, anywhere in the range of 0.5 V to 1.0 V output from your phono stage (calculated by specs; peak levels can be much higher) is typically fine. I tend to like it in the hot side towards 1V in practice, but you run the risk of cutting into ov... | |
| Phono Preamp Gain Well 40 dB on 5 mV is only 0.5 V. While 30 dB on 5 mV results in an absolutely anemic (for line level) 0.158 V. You pipe that into a preamp next to an input holding a hot digital source of 2V - 4V (e.g many balanced DACs), and you’re going to have... | |
| Phono Preamp Gain You need to match phono stage gain to the cartridge first. Don’t get tied up in the integrated’s input sensitivity, which is spec’d at the point where the volume control is WIDE OPEN, and determines the amount of input signal required to output th... | |
| VPI Classic vs Clear Audio Wood I get a sense of what you mean by “sparkle”. I get that with vintage Fidelity Research arms paired with Koetsu/Shelter cartridges. I’m realizing now I didn’t get that with modern/tech arms like the Graham Phantom and Clearaudio Universal - very sm... | |
| Attenuator & Transformer for Moving Coil cartridge 15x ratio for a 0.6mV can actually work great, contingent upon the synergy of your cart to a particular SUT. Just try it and see what you’ve got. Pretty sure it stands at least a reasonable chance of beating a solid-state MC stage. Depends of cour... | |
| Audioquest custom made triple weave design power cable (Storm Series). AQ very strongly recommends using Storm series PC's for any of THEIR power conditioners, which are not current limiting. Or , with other conditioners that have been carefully designed to not limit current. Their point is that the common/typical/ch... | |
| New Rega Planer 8 (P8) Turntable - Apheta 2 Cartridge Combo - Thoughts Cartridge break-in is very real, but real-er for some brands & models than others. Ortofon Cadenza Bronze is an example that sounds great out of the box, right from hour #1 (and pairs great with the hybrid JFET/tube stages). Whereas Koetsu sto... | |
| Any experience with Tannoy loudspeakers? @williewonka No, they have some space around them from the corners - about 3.5 feet from back of speakers to the front wall, and just shy of 2 feet from the outer sides to walls. Gives them enough space to breathe, even with all ports fully open. ... | |
| Used Market Savings vs. The Dealer Experience Awesome @bfjones01 !Glad to hear about you ending up happy and saving money. Sounds like you’ve got a good dealer there. | |
| New Rega Planer 8 (P8) Turntable - Apheta 2 Cartridge Combo - Thoughts @fsmithjack Well your situation certainly is interesting. I'm surprised the Rega didn't do better; you must (as you say) have one hell of a digital rig! I'm on the very opposite side of the spectrum - HUGE investment in 2 turntable rig(s), with al... | |
| Any experience with Tannoy loudspeakers? Dan's project is impressive regardless of the fine details and what-have-you's. Yes, the Westminster is the only current production Tannoy with a complex folded-horn cabinet structure, and has been for some time. The other cabinets are pretty simp... | |
| Any experience with Tannoy loudspeakers? Thinking about this some more, I wonder if @islandmandan ’s custom build, with reflex porting and a large vintage Tannoy HPD driver, would achieve a nice balance of bass extension plus sweet midrange. Especially paired with the right tube amp, whi... | |
| Any experience with Tannoy loudspeakers? The 12” driver with traditional reflex porting, like the discontinued Yorkminster SE and current GRF 90, will give excellent bass extension - significantly better than the 15” Canterbury. I think that is due to the distributed port on the Canterbu... | |
| Any experience with Tannoy loudspeakers? @williewonka My Tannoys are situated in a section of my living area room, backed into a little alcove (4 feet deep) that’s 14 feet wide and serves as the front wall for my setup. The length of the room in the other dimension is 21 feet. 10 foot ce... |