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| Adding a Herron VTSP 3A/360 Preamplifier to the system. Awesome! It looks like an extremely nice unit. I love the very clean looking faceplates of the Herron gear. What finish you get? The titanium looks sweet (I had a VTPH-2A in that finish, now sold to a good friend). As I'm sure you know, preamp con... | |
| A Record Collection/Moral Conundrum - What Would You Do? Also realize to get "top" dollar for those records you’d have to painstakingly list and sell them individually. There’s a HUGE value discrepancy between their sum of median / max values on DiscOgs marketplace versus dumping the whole collection of... | |
| A Record Collection/Moral Conundrum - What Would You Do? You shouldn’t have posted about this (here or anywhere), and you shouldn’t have tortured yourself over the moral implications - that just means your dickhead "friend" has now screwed you over TWICE!In the future, just stop listening as soon as som... | |
| Koetsu Rosewood Vs Rosewood Signature Vs HANA UMAMI RED advice please Koetsu can be too warm or dark in some systems, but with op’s Tannoy Kensington, they help keep the horn tweeters in check. Then, the fabulous midranges of these 2 transducers make magic together. | |
| Koetsu Rosewood Vs Rosewood Signature Vs HANA UMAMI RED advice please @astolforYes, Koetsus are a bit harrowing to align because of the big boxy body, and they tend to ride fairly low - overhang positioning is OK but it's a little challenging to see enough of the cantilever to align it. Usually the cantilever will b... | |
| Koetsu Rosewood Vs Rosewood Signature Vs HANA UMAMI RED advice please Those 3 all seem like great choices. And you have a great system. I used to own Kensington - now Canterbury - and Koetsu cartridges get along *exceptionally* well with them both! | |
| How much does power amplifier really matter comparing to other hi-fi components? Everything matters. Amp matters a lot. Recently I’ve owned 3 amps I can swap among in my system. Each has a very distinct sound. All 3 are way more than enough power (120 - 275 Watts / ch) for my 96dB Tannoys, so overhead & drive capabilities ... | |
| Ortofon Cadenza vs. old Ortofon MC30 Super2 ? Based on having an old MC20 still kicking around and having gone through the Cadenza / Kontrapunk / Windfeld / A90 lines - no, I don’t think a new Cadenza will the same "house" sound as your MC30 Super. The older motors used very low impedance coi... | |
| My kiseki Blackheart nightmare. There seems to be a disturbing incidence of Kiseki issue reports over the last few years. Not a LOT in absolute number to be sure (countered by the fact these must be very low volume sales numbers), but seemingly more than the other major cartridg... | |
| Phono preamp tube rolling. @lowrider57 I have a very good friend, younger and with better ears than mine - he says the exact same things about that Soviet 1578 tube. Yes the vintage/make is supposedly very specific and very important. Something abut round plate holes too, e... | |
| Phono preamp tube rolling. It’s been a long time since I played with lots of vintage 6SN7, in a crazy headphone amp (and briefly later on in a Rogue 99 Magnum preamp). I do remember the Tung Sol BGRP sounded the most unique out of all, and the best to my ears. An extremely ... | |
| Phono preamp tube rolling. Chelmers would be relabeled tubes from a large maker - could be USA or China. Probably USA if small signal. I had an old Hagerman Trumpet (wood tower type) that was supplied with Chelmer 6072 (12AY7) which looked like they were either old-stock Sy... | |
| amp pre amp matching 250 ohms into 22K is perfectly fine, on paper. The < 100pF recommendation is odd. A lot of audiophile interconnects will exceed that. And by a LOT, if your doing a long run to the amps. | |
| Phono preamp tube rolling. gakertyMullards have never lasted too long in a phono stage or any other application here, for the reason you colorfully cite :)The Zestos looks lovely and its use of an asymmetric dual-triode is very interesting! Use of output transformers is coo... | |
| Phono preamp tube rolling. @surfmuz The 12 ax7/ ay7 / at7 aren’t really the same thing with different gain. They have very different plate resistances and drive capabilities, for starters. The Ares’ 12au7 slots are mu followers with a lot of flexibility - one element per tu... |