onhwy61
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| What will beat ear 834p by a margin In numerous posts you keep asking what essentially is the same question. The answer is, there are a large number of phono stages that exceed the performance of the EAR 834. Only you can determine whether the increased performance is worth the adde... | |
| Help with church system... An amp will not give you the smooth luscious liquidity that you seek. I speculate, but the problem is most likely the church's acoustics and loudspeaker placement. | |
| Good Preamp with Digital Input April Music makes a highly regarded preamp/DAC with multiple digital inputs. Tact makes a digital preamp with extensive room correction equalization. Grace makes a preamp/DAC that while targeted towards the pro market has the features you stated.A... | |
| Mixed Results from My Hifi Could one of the numerous people recommending adding tubes to Hammergjh's system please explain how a tube circuit corrects for, lessens or otherwise modifies the effects of compression on the audio signal? Hammergjh specifically mentions compress... | |
| Mixed Results from My Hifi In the original post 3 specific albums were mentioned and the sound was described as compressed and digital. I own 2 of the 3 albums and no amount of switching equipment or room acoustics will make them sound good. The recordings are not high qual... | |
| Conservative Politics & Rock Music I don't know why the Hollies are not in the Hall. They should be. Politically I would describe "Bus Stop" as a working class oriented song. People taking the bus to work, very proletariat."You Can't Be Too Strong" - not at all clear why it's polit... | |
| Mixed Results from My Hifi Nothing you can really do. Your system is simply telling you how the inidividual CDs sound. Some sound wonerful and some don't. That's the way life is. | |
| Conservative Politics & Rock Music Now that I've been defined as a racist, thank you Maril555 (and please, stay nauseated), let me also try to qualify as a sexist for pointing out the paucity of women on the list. I'm writing an angry letter to the Affirmative Action Office at the ... | |
| Conservative Politics & Rock Music Bowbow, of the 158 performers inducted into the Rock Hall Of Fame slightly more than one third are non-white. Where's James Brown's "It's A Man's Man's World" or "I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing" as conservative anthems? | |
| dac chip vs analog stage as to sonic impact By current standards the CAL products are very colored in their sound. Not unpleasant sounding, but not particularly accurate to the source material. | |
| Will a Full Page Ad Guarantee a Review? Based upon a six edition run a quarter page ad equals multiple mentions in show reports, a half page ad equals a review, a full page ad equals a positive review and inclusion in a reviewer's reference system and a for a pair of Scarlett J.'s unwas... | |
| Best phono stage balanced under $3000 used The Clearaudio Balanced Reference fits your needs at used prices. The K&K and Ayre list new for less than $3,000. All of these will give you excellent, but not state of the art performance. | |
| Best bearing for homemade turntable This is an interesting design, it uses a Harley Shovelhead valve stem and guide as the turntable beaaring. | |
| Fine Tuning Vandersteen 5s An offer gone missing Doing it yourself only works if you do it right. In the long run, it might be better, both sonically and financially, if you acquire some test equipment and have the dealer walk you through the steps. Assuming the dealer has performed the setup a ... | |
| Good way to dampen tonearm? Why are you even thinking of adding dampening material to the tonearm? Does it noticeably ring when you tap it? I've read good things about the wire upgrade, but I would otherwise leave the arm alone. |