nikturner920
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| Aesthetix Calypso vs. ? The Calypso has a really pretty minimalist circuit design. You are in a sense listening to the tubes. Which is amazing with good tubes but make using low noise / low microphonic tubes mandatory.One thing you can try with Tung Sols is change the ga... | |
| XLR cable for basic beginner Harmonic Technology Cables are really good in XLR form in my opinion and great deals at used prices.If you get interested I would try out the Truth Link series first as the SILWAY can be a little hot in the high end for entry level electronics. | |
| Tannoy VS Dynaudio Haven't done serious listening to the Tannoys in a while but I really liked the Tannoy Dual Concentric monitors Revolution and Definition series when last looking. I also owned not concentric Tannoy monitors for years and loved them when I was in ... | |
| Tannoy VS Dynaudio Need to try the Tannoys in your room with and without the Prima Luna.I personally love the Tannoy sound in smaller rooms or nearfield listening, but sitting 6ft away in a small room may not be what you can do in your living room. The set up issues... | |
| PC audio with S/pdif input only You could just use the airport express and then a converter to coaxial. I'm not had problems but there are sync issues sometimes as mentioned.Monarchy audio has a converter that I have used that also reclocks, reduces jitter, and upsamples to 24/96. | |
| What is the point of point source? I think one way to look at what people conceptually like about point source speakers is that microphones used to record music act in general like point receivers. There are various pickup patterns and multi-miking is common but you don't record a ... | |
| Home wiring One other thing to consider with the electrician is that most of the cost is just getting them in the attic or basement to run the line. If you have a little extra money for the romex have them run 2 separate lines with their own grounds to two ne... | |
| Home wiring Assuming you are in a home you own.Basics would be a new line from the main panel direct to your system. 10ga romex with ground is fine for the line. I would just add an addition outlet near your old one as adding a new box is a minimal cost addit... | |
| Current production "budget" warm/dark SS amp? 'Warm' and 'Dark' as used in audio are different to me.Maybe a Sim Audio moon W- 3 or 5? Maybe one of there new amps? The treble has detail without being etched and emphasized so could call them a touch dark. I wouldn't call them warm though in te... | |
| How important is ext. adj. for cartridge loading I would be up for Beta testing as I am actually looking for a new phono stage at the moment and having a mono option is one of criteria. | |
| How important is ext. adj. for cartridge loading If you have a mono cart with a single RCA output on the leads and you run this into one channel of the input then select the 'Mono' switch that sums the signal and sends it to both channels gain stages...isn't that 'real mono'?I guess I want fake ... | |
| How important is ext. adj. for cartridge loading Just to clarify, my desire for a mono switch is not for running a mono cart but for playback of stereo LPs (early stereo late 50s - mid 60s) that sound better in mono. Like Dopogue I lack this on my phono and line stages.In general replacing resis... | |
| How important is ext. adj. for cartridge loading Mono Switch, even on the back, would be a great feature.Not that I listen to that many true mono records, but there are a large number of early stereo rock and jazz records with horrible L-R pan that sound great in mono.I would have preference for... | |
| Bryston Help I would second getting away from the silways with your system.When I had a Bryston 3B ST Harmonic Tech Truth links were a much better match than the silways even though I gave up a bit of detail. I would re-cable all copper and see where you are.Y... | |
| Dealing with a large TV between speakers I get great soundstaging with my speakers on the long wall and my listing position near the rear wall. Almost as good as shortwall placement in my room but with much better bass response. My room is well treated though.I think the comments about r... |