noromance
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| Seeking Advice to Improve My Audio System ($1000 Budget) The weak link is your powered speakers. I heard these at a show and found them somewhat lacking in sparkle—pleasant but lacking detail as you’ve noted. You will need a separate integrated (preamp and power amp in one unit) amplifier (with or wit... | |
| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy Aesthetix IO (1995) MFA Luminescence C (1990) Croft MegaMicro (1987) Conrad-Johnson Premier 15 (1996) | |
| Footers under new speakers No matter what you do that 1" of shag carpet and padding is going to impact (sic) stability. How about laying down one or two 24" off-the-shelf concrete patio slabs to act as a base? Then add your springs etc. | |
| Repair or replace my subwoofer Looks like they're $750 new so $400 is reasonable if there's no shipping fees. Your other option is to bin it and get 2 subs like REL T5x etc. | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade "From $13,970" on linn.co.uk Linn has a new plinth upgrade for the LP12. Wow, over $11,000 USD! | |
| Looking for Solid Core Speaker cables @total111 Afraid not. They look interesting. Quad ESL57 with Neotech solid copper OCC. I run solid core silver on Spendors in a second rig. You really have to get the correct cable for the specific combination. For example I swapped mine between... | |
| Looking for Solid Core Speaker cables @total111 Silver plated may be too spitty or sibilant for your speakers. And yes, I like the idea of DIY, and while the Neotech stuff looks great, some silver plated copper could work also work well.... The Tocaros are super fast, toe tapping ... | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? Any artist who sings Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah as a religious song. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light - S/T (Nine Athens Music 2022) | |
| Looking for Solid Core Speaker cables Make your own with 12 or 14 gauge OCC copper in Teflon from PartsConnexion | |
| ??? WHY WHY WHY ??? Class A vs Everything Else More like taking the Bentley on the school run. I think of Class A similar to driving my car with the gas to the floor, and using the brake to control my speed. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Incredible String Band – U (Elektra 1970) Roy Harper - Lifemask (Chrysalis 1973) The UK Harvest version sounds so much better. Holly Golightly And The Brokeoffs - No Help Coming (Transdreamer 2011) Fritz Reiner Conducting The Pittsburgh Sy... | |
| KT88 Tubes Before you go throwing out tubes considering the HK’s possible age, ensure they’re not valuable GECs. Have you set the bias correctly? | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring (EMI 1986) Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle - One From the Heart (CBS 1982) Timbuktu 3 - Greetings From (IRS 1986) | |
| I replaced the volume pot on my tube preamplifier. @jordi Obviously, I concur. Contrary to the seeming naivete of my opening post, I have run into this issue before. I built an overkill phono preamplifier back in the day and it sounded fantastic (with a cheap RS sourced pot). I was to demo it to ... |