mulveling
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| Comparing speakers at home questions I always have to slow down. Fast A/B comparisons are fatiguing, not at all fun (for me), and can occlude some of the important nuances IMO - our brains are incredible pattern matchers (taking two slightly different data sets and finding their equi... | |
| Specific SUT with unusual case scenario question from a LOMC N00b You're welcome @xceilidhx ! Sorry about your wait on the Salamander rack. Man that's frustrating! Really nice cart you've got waiting, for when that all comes together. | |
| 6H30 Tubes The only really meaningful 6H30 (also called 6N30) option is the NOS "DR" version of supertubes. The more desireable ones are from the 1980s. They’ve been hard to get, and very expensive, for a very long time. Even 10 - 15 years ago these would fe... | |
| Specific SUT with unusual case scenario question from a LOMC N00b What do you think about pairing my kit with Bob’s Sky 20-S? There is no 30-S at this time as far as I know but the 10 and 20 ratio SUT is also pretty much in the range you are recommending (rather than 15 and 30) and offers improved quality (in t... | |
| Specific SUT with unusual case scenario question from a LOMC N00b So if you have a 40 ohm load for for a 60+ rated cart, what is the (theoretical or actual) sonic impact of that being on the low side, AKA marginal territory? Forgive my ignorance. Just not sure what the downside of that is in practice. @xceili... | |
| Specific SUT with unusual case scenario question from a LOMC N00b The Hana into PL’s 60dB MC mode might sound good...but yeah, it’s probably going to be a bit nosier than alternatives, and you might also prefer to have a bit more gain on tap. If you’re wanting to try the SUT way (which I personally love), you m... | |
| Unipivot tone arms When I was new to this, yes the wobbly unipivots (ala VPI) were unsettling. But this was misplaced nerves. Now - it’s no big deal! Use the cueing lever / lift. Of course, it doesn’t feel like a good idea to put a stiffly suspensioned, massy cartri... | |
| The $27,900 disappointment? Wilson Audio Watt Puppy 8 issues. No one with expensive high quality speakers would drive these with cheap electronics. This isnt the issue. The issue is if Wilson can achieve the same quality of sound making the speakers higher impedance with a more refined curve. Sure. Let’s ... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? If you guys want to see something wild - check out these 2 video clips I made a couple years ago, with a VPI Aries 3, stylus in groove (at rest), and system on with volume set to "loud" listening level. This was my "energetic" problem room (small ... | |
| Tube Pre/ Class D Amp - Who has done it? By way of usual audiophile nonsense, I once had my VAC Master tube preamp ($30K) hooked up to a NAD M22 (nCore class D). It sounded great! Much MUCH better than with matching M12 digital preamp, which was comparatively awful. I even considered sti... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? @dwette Wow, that's an awesome find. Seems like a ridiculous bargain in this context. I've spent this kind of money on just a couple of CMS platforms, and they surely don't help solve problems in bass frequencies - which (I imagine) the Minus-K ... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? The Minus-K is extremely impressive because it has such a ridiculously low resonant frequency - like 0.5 Hz or less in one of the directions. So it's truly effective at full-range isolation. Watch some videos of it in action; it's like magic. A re... | |
| I am sad Email is notoriously spotty for communication. Even IF they saw your message, we’re all so inundated with emails and text messages these days - that we have a tendecy to ignore or "forget" about a certain percentage of them, even when we don’t rea... | |
| Analogue front end. You want more weight, scale and dynamics.Where do you start upgrading? And I’ve had the same FR64fx arm, with a few of the same cartridges, mounted across a couple SOTAs and a couple of the CA Innovation decks. Some of the same cartridges again mounted on VPIs, albeit with VPI’s arms - didn’t try and mount an FR ther... | |
| The $27,900 disappointment? Wilson Audio Watt Puppy 8 issues. "An amps ability to drive lower impedance loads has no relation to the amps quality." I can’t agree with this. The ability to drive lower impedance loads means that the power supply has to be up to the task. This would include such things as hea... |