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| FR64 cartridge suggestions RE-surfacing an old thread here. Wondering if someone can tell me about head-shell compatibility with these FR64 tone arms?. Can I use regular headshells like I would on a technics 1200g arm for example? . If so what can be said about the native ... | |
| Preamps with I2s input To be clear - your digital transport (source) is what needs to support an I2S output, not your preamp. It's not a common feature. PS Audio's PerfectWave SACD transport does I2S over HDMI, for starters. | |
| Preamp Advice/experiences needed If you can find a used Rogue Athena it meets your criteria (for a LOT less money) and I personally prefer its sound quality over their newer RP-9. I’ve also had a Ren V and felt its bass response was a little soft, Fantastic midrange, though. Abo... | |
| Concrete Slabs Sounds like you’ve got your turntable support reasonably well sorted. Congrats! In my experience: isolation isn’t a problem, until it’s a BIG problem. If you don’t have good enough support (combination of rigidity & mass), then footfalls and s... | |
| Tube amps - what 3 things… Auto-bias circuity (this applies to push-pull topologies) is lovely, and usually includes superior protection & status indicators that are preferable to fuses. I’ve had a tube fuse blow and it wasn’t even immediately apparent that single ... | |
| A Thought Exercise: Consolidating Analog To One Table and Two Cartridges Well essentially that points to standing where I am as both tables in my possession are quite respectable. In a way that is how I got to this point. When buying the SOTA Cosmos I bought an earlier generation Star Sapphire to determine if I liked ... | |
| A Thought Exercise: Consolidating Analog To One Table and Two Cartridges Unless you’re on concrete slab, don’t consider selling the SOTA. I tried to make a Clearaudio work on a suspended wood floor, and it was just too tough. I suppose there’s a Townshend Podium I could try as a potential "proper" solution, but the SOT... | |
| What is your experience with amp power? Why Do Tweeters Blow When Amplifiers Distort? See below: Mike https://sound-au.com/tweeters.htm#a6 That site is normally a good source of information, but that particular section "6 Bigger Amplifiers" seems short sighted to me: It assumes t... | |
| Which ARC ref linestage to try: Ref3, Ref5, Ref5SE? HATE forward sounding systems The Ref 6 is absolutely fantastic, and good deals can be had used. Hard to imagine you wouldn't be satisfied with that one. It's not too forward or too laid back; it's music. | |
| One of the great things about Vinyl If you list out the mundane tasks of ANY ritual - whether by religion or for pleasure - it looks so unjustifiably tedious, that any uninitiated observer would surely exclaim "WHY would they do this?!". You either derive joy from the ritual and it... | |
| What is your experience with amp power? To be honest, there are a lot of inaccurate statements in this thread. I am guessing that only a few people here know design and have experience in building an audio component. Are there really inaccurate/false statement in this thread, or is i... | |
| What is your experience with amp power? Mono-blocks>bi-amp That is generally my experience as well, though some solid state amps will sound worse when "bridged" to mono. With tube amps I’ve definitely heard substantial improvements going to mono. If the amp was designed to be a mo... | |
| Does anyone own a VAC Renaissance mk5 SE Preamplifier? IIRC when I asked VAC (a few years ago), there was no SE versus "standard" version of the 5. It’s all one version. The production Ren 5 ended up using the same Lundahl transformers as in the Master, so they deemed no need to make a separate SE ver... | |
| What is your experience with amp power? For 15 years I’ve been running Tannoys, between 91 - 96dB. I play loud. I like tubes. I don’t think I’ve gotten to the point yet where I have "too much" power. My most powerful amps, 250 Watts/ch and 300 Watts/ch tube monoblocks, have had distinct... | |
| One of the great things about Vinyl Same here. I just can't sink into digital listening easily - and some days, not at all. I don't agree with assertions that X amount is required to get satisfaction with vinyl, either. I've used a cheap $500 Fluance for a bit, and still preferred i... |