newbee
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| Need tube help! Lots of folks like the Gold Lion KT88. I don't see how you could go wrong, but I've never listened to them. If they are available they do cost about $100 apiece. I've used and still do Tung sol 6550 in my Dialogue 2. I suspect from what I've heard... | |
| Need tube help! Meaningful answers will be in short supply pending your comments about your system, set up, and sonic desires. Especially the latter. Matching tubes with your integrated has as much to do with your speakers and set up as anything. You have a lot t... | |
| What Could Cause Center Image To Present Lower than Expected FWIW some speakers sound much better at higher volumes, not so much at low volumes, especially imaging issues. Just for the fun of it, crank up your volume a bit an see what happens. Also, set up your speakers and chair in an equilateral triangle ... | |
| What are your top three favorite classical compositions? As it appears most folks like orchestral, a few that are heard more often in my house - Sibelius Sym #4 (and his Finlandia Hymn, original version, by male choir, highly recommended for those who feast on nationalistic music), Last movement of Mahl... | |
| What are your top three favorite classical compositions? Out of thousands, you jest! But I do seem to listen more often to solo piano music by Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, and Prokofiev than most others. How about you? | |
| What are your top 3 favorite female singers? Mary Stallings, Rene Marie, Shirley Horn and a 4th (but really 1st) Eva Cassidy. | |
| Vacuum Tube Break-in You might not believe it, but some folks can't hear a difference between tubes of the same type either. Personally I never make decisions about tubes until they have run in for 24 hours. :-) | |
| TT quandary What exactly do you think you can improve by changing the TT. Frankly if I were starting new I doubt that I would have chosen a VPI, but that said its more of a different choice in design - there is nothing wrong with your VPI that will IMHO audib... | |
| Do your speakers bite?? If my speakers were to ’bite’ I’d either get new speakers or more synergistic components. Most what you call ’bite’ is, IMHO, not much more than equipment which has a peak in the upper mid range utilized in a band aid approach (cheap & easy) t... | |
| Stylus skipping at beginning of record Don’t remember. :-) But if faced with it now the first thing I’d try would be to increase (slightly) the VTF and see if that solved the problem. VTF is a moving target but your cartridge maker should have spec’d a range. The other possibility (if ... | |
| What a difference a setting makes. RV, good on you! As I've said or implied in other posts, it all matters. 2 things not to overlook are the VTA and how it is affected by record thickness, and the VTF which by the way affects the VTA. I used to have two mats, one for records of a s... | |
| Is it worth upgrading a CD player? Actually there is considerable difference between a CD transport (what you are using your Marantz as) and dedicated transports. I have and use regularly an Audiolab 6000. A transport on devise. I have 3 very good CDP’s - used as a transport alone ... | |
| Classical piano solo—Your one favorite performance and recording As mike in nc said, I can't give you just one - I have too many to choose from, maybe far too many. But just to be a little bit obnoxious, you mentioned Gould and Bach. If you want to hear a modern recording of the Goldberg Variations by a young a... | |
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? No. Not even if they were to ask. Actually few of them have any real interest and would be too polite even if they cared. | |
| Parity bdp24, Well said and mirrors my thoughts exactly. I also tend to agree with Steve's position, at least it reflects my feelings. I put together a near SOTA system in the 80's (not because I was smart but because I could) and found that early digit... |