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| Interesting information from Analog Planet on Stylus Cleaner Onzow Zero Dust. I’m skeptical this can be solely attributed to the Zerodust, without some other "unusual" factors coming to light. Either way, it’s not going to affect my occasional use of the DS Audio gel pad. I also scrub the stylus after each session with Magi... | |
| Audioquest Firebird Zero I had a similar question for AQ, and was advised that the William Tell Silver biwire would be a better choice than Thunderbird biwire (I did mention I have 96dB Tannoys). The cost for these 2 configurations is very close. I was also told this woul... | |
| Mc 240 vs. Prima Luna I've heard the nasty downside of bridging, with solid-state amps which I loved in stereo mode (Phison A2.120 SE), and they lost their sweetness in mono/bridge. But tube amps can be a different story, probably in part because you can change taps to... | |
| Mc 240 vs. Prima Luna This model of McIntosh doesn't even have the blue meters lol. And considering non-sonic attributes, the McIntosh amps will hold value a hell of a lot better than Prima Luna. They'll basically never go down. | |
| Mc 240 vs. Prima Luna I disagree that doubling up the current tube amp won’t gain you much. I have a pair of VAC 200iQ tube amps, and running mono is a clear and significant improvement over a single amp in stereo mode. I have 96dB / 8 ohm speakers, so the increase fro... | |
| Tube Vs. SS Preamps If you’re not sure whether you want tube or SS sound, check out the 6H30 based preamps. Great tube! Super clean, linear, and resolving. If you want a more traditional "sweet" tube sound, I'd stick to those that use 6922 or 6SN7 in their circuit. | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained My first good turntable setup, ~ 3K including phono stage, was very enjoyable to me - much more than CD. About a year into that I picked up a Pioneer RT-1020L and a bunch of Maxell UD 35-90 tapes containing some unknown guy’s needledrops (mostly 1... | |
| Preamp recommendations for my system please Why not a "plain" Ref 6? That can be had for under 10K. Snagging a 6SE at that price point is...optimistic. I’ve moved on from my Ref 6, to a VAC Master, and yet I still admire the 6. It’s really a matter of system matching and personal preference... | |
| VAC and Kevin Hayes are totally unresponsive. What's up with that? This is not typical for VAC, and in fact I have a friend who’s in regular correspondence with them currently. 1. Email is not the most reliable form of communication. Call them. I sent an email question a couple weeks ago and got no response. No ... | |
| SUT Interconnects @lewm The "flying leads" makes sense, thanks. But as far as optimizing total run length to a phono 47K input - I always though it was more critical to keep capacitance low AFTER the SUT, rather than BEFORE the SUT, becasue of the after-SUT’s cap... | |
| Ikeda 407 Tone Arms - New or Vintage @nandric Wow, that's surprising, and good to know! I've been intermittently curious about the Ikeda arms, but already have a 64S (plus two 64fx's) and love it. | |
| Turntable versus tonearm versus cartridge: which is MOST important? I think we can all agree the most important component is to keeps spending gobs of money until all the problems and deficiencies go away...and then spend more to improve it incrementally until you go bankrupt or die! I think it's important to get... | |
| Tonearm Project Consumer Study Korf Audio just made exactly the hypothetical new high-end tonearm I might want to buy. You can read about it on their blog. Their price is incredibly reasonable. I’m not affilated with them in any way, and haven’t even placed an order yet. Reson... | |
| Auditioning The Fyne 703 Soon Canterbury GR is the current model, since 2013. SE is the old model, which Jim owned, and which I owned before I bought GR. It does appear now that the move of all Tannoy production over to China (including Legacy and Prestige lines) has been conf... | |
| Auditioning The Fyne 703 Soon @vinylvalet To be fair, Jim had the Canterbury SE and I believe they retailed for $20K at the time. That SE model would in fact benefit from additional clarity & detail that would presumably be imparted by the Duelund crossover. The current mo... |