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| New to Preamp - Preamp suggestion around 10k Also - don’t know how you feel about "Stax Mafia" / Kevin Gilmore electrostatic amp designs, but you might consider snagging a KGST (cheaper), KGGG (more expensive), or BHSE (Headamp, more expensive) when they come up on the used market. Just avoi... | |
| New to Preamp - Preamp suggestion around 10k @cming0038 @bdp24 So far I’ve only owned the MC SUT’s by EAR (absolutely fantastic SUT’s), but I’ve long been curious about their other tube electronics. Especially their preamps and HP-4 headphone amp. I bet they’re fantastic. If I were to pick... | |
| New to Preamp - Preamp suggestion around 10k Question for the group. The OP is looking for "slight bit of warmth, plus better dynamics and imaging" and is asking for pre-amp suggestions to help with that. Is a pre-amp the right tool to solve this issue? Or would looking at different head... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey @pindac right on! :) | |
| New to Preamp - Preamp suggestion around 10k Also, quite honestly I prefer Rogue’s older Athena and Hera models over the 9, but I understand I’m a bit of an oddball ;) I currently have a VAC Master, ARC Ref 6, and VAC Renaissance III in my stable and I STILL hang onto an Athena because I ju... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey Oops, sorry it was indeed @drbond with the Vibrasystems recommendation - my bad! Could you please provide a link to us? :) | |
| New to Preamp - Preamp suggestion around 10k That sounds like an unusual arrangement for a Stax amp. Bypass its internal preamp with an external one? There is no such preamp stage in most direct-drive Stax amps, which need to supply 50 - 60 dB net gain (more similar to phono stage, minus the... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey @karl_desch I am wondering if you could expand on rack bracing and use of the Aurelex foam. Not sure I understand what the foam is doing here and how the rack is braced. It’s very simply just a shim of flat material that you wedge tightly b... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey @whart I'd love to try a Minus-K some day. Amazing tech; they truly look like magic! Though, I do feel this particular system is "well enough" solved for now. Perhaps my opinion will change in the long run. Haven't tried an active platform eit... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey Thanks for the great feedback everyone :) @macg19 Awesome -- you’ll love the Innovation Compact! I currently have this 12" Universal on it transplanted (left over) from my Master Innovation, but a Tracer or Graham Phantom should be an ideal match... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey the Tracer arm has been rock solid (so to speak) and I’ve run super light, high compliance to heavier mid compliance carts successfully, although my current Stanton has a resonant frequency of 7hz. Perhaps a bit shy of desired range, but doesn’t ... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey Thanks @gakerty Yes, I still have those Rogue Apollo monoblocks -- ran them as my main amp (in non-Dark and later Dark form) in the big loft system for the better part of 10 years. I tried swapping lots of components during the struggles with th... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey @islandmandan Nice, the Herron is a very good phono stage and I still have one around. At one point I thought the different subsonic filtering between phono stages and SUTs could have some impact, but in the end didn’t find any meaningful differ... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey @drbond The Minus-K solution looks amazing and was absolutely next on my radar, but the Townshend platform in conjunction with other noted factors has solved this particular system to my satisfaction :) That's interesting on the Vibrasystems r... | |
| VAC Musicbloc 160 amps (Any experiences?) @smodtactical They’re warm and rich without going too far off the reservation. Still really good detail and clarity. I really dig it. I haven’t aimed for "dead neutral" for a long time. VAC really nails their voicing of components. ARC for exam... |