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| Time for a new cartridge I have tried almost every good cartridge in $5000 price and I prefer the EMT HSD 006. For just about $2000, it is an insane value and kicks ass of many top dollar carts. Huge dynamic range, flat neutral sound with just the right amount of warmth w... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Update: I have now heard the EMT 950 and 927 in the same room (another friend bought it). Both using the TSD-15 cartridge and internal phono stages. The 927 is clearly superior. It sounds bigger, more fluid, more explosive. 950 has the EMT present... | |
| Is there Tannoy Magic / Should I buy a pair of Tannoys as "accessory" speaker? A long term Tannoy user here. Few things to clarify 1. Tannoys have overused and hyped their DC design into many lineups but the only real Tannoys as the original legendary designers had created are the Prestige line which consists of Sterling, T... | |
| Biwiring make any sense? If your speaker’s crossover design and terminals are true biwiring, yes biwiring helps. But the value decreases with increase in amp power. That means, if your amps not very powerful wrt speakers, biwiring will be very useful. The audible gains ar... | |
| Audio Research versus McIntosh tube amps: anyone experience or compare both? @bobbydd since you asked a leading question, you will get answers which are obviously this or that. What you are looking for is a great sounding tube amp which has the bloom but not slow or colored. Check out Rogue Audio Stereo 100. It has everyth... | |
| 40+ watts SET, cost is not a problem Thanks @charles1dad i am exploring all the SET suggestions you and other fellow audiophiles have suggested. Audio Note (UK) ANKORU or even Gaku-On is looking very interesting | |
| 40+ watts SET, cost is not a problem If I have to go push pull, my first choice would be a CJ sa108 monoblocks with Art88 preamp. But I am so keen and smitten by SET that I will first explore it well. | |
| 40+ watts SET, cost is not a problem Having heard multiple Berning amps, they ultimately sound a bit sterile to me because of the switch mode power supply. If an audio designer can't even hear the basics of music and figure out what is lost with a switching PSU and just uses it for s... | |
| 40+ watts SET, cost is not a problem @atmasphere , the listening distance is indeed near field (6-7 feet from the plane of the speakers). However, I do understand your point of these speakers needing a lot of power. Why do you suggest Class D and not A, AB ? | |
| 40+ watts SET, cost is not a problem @larryi I dont have any particular need for the remote. Considering that we will go with a Gaku-on, what is critical is a well matched preamp which doesnt short change or create any sonic anomaly (due to character mismatch). Many people say it is ... | |
| 40+ watts SET, cost is not a problem Has anyone here heard the Wavac preamps? If I go for SET, I am strongly considering AN (UK) Gaku-on but I don't like AN preamps. They are way too colored and even slow. I have owned M6 and M8. Sold them both because of their colored and slowish (... | |
| 40+ watts SET, cost is not a problem @charles1dad I conquer with you completely. There is something so natural about the way SET present music. What it does with distortion is true and theoretical but it must be preserving something vital to make music sound so "right". Having said ... | |
| 40+ watts SET, cost is not a problem @atmasphere @charles1dad @jond and others, it seems people are not warming up to the idea of SET here. And also there seems to be very few seriously good tried and tested choices beyond 25 watts. So what are some really good options for push-pull ... | |
| 40+ watts SET, cost is not a problem @larryi when you refer to gaku-on, are you suggesting Kondo or AN UK? Secondly, which other tube amp (non-SET) would you suggest with at least 80-100 watts which have top tier sound? | |
| 40+ watts SET, cost is not a problem So you want an SET amp? These typically have output impedances over 1 ohm and higher. Due to interaction with speaker impedance the result is a non-flat frequency response (Ohm's Law). The typical SET amp acts as a tone control as it tracks the s... |