peter_s
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| Juicy Music Preamps Geez - what's happening to Audiogon? A well reviewed preamp with a 30-day satisfaction guarantee, and nobody has anything to report? I should have something to say in about a month. Hope it's good. | |
| Anyone Compared Odyssey/PS Audio amps? Hi Doug,I had them both at the same time. I remember being wey impressed at the punch and clean-ness of the bass with the HCA-2, but in the area of midrange it was no contest. The HCA-2 midrange never sounded quite right to me, somehow on the "syn... | |
| CAT Ultimate Mk II Cartridge Matching Thanks Aoliviero. I just found out that my cartridge only has 0.4 mv, but many people are using cartridges with this output. We'll see. | |
| Mozart Trios - Recommendations Thanks Doug. I also notice Naxos has the complete trios:BIS-CD-513-14 MOZART, W.A.: Complete Piano Triosand a Nimbus recording of the Vienna Piano Trio among others.I've got an email into Proprius distributor May Audio to find out where to get thi... | |
| Less fatiquing I had a system that was too aggressive and harsh in the midrange. Putting in Cardas neutral reference cables did the trick for me. It really took the aggressiveness out of the mids. I no longer have that system, and am currently selling the cables... | |
| Benchmark DAC1 The folks at Benchmark seem to have no plans to make the DAC1 a USB device. In my conversation with them, the indicated that it is just too easy to add on an external M-Audio "Transit" converter ($70) to do the job. Not worth their time... | |
| Mass .WAV compression utility? Kenny, thanks for the advice. Can you provide more information, or a link, about the itunes plugin for Macs that allows reference to multiple libraries. I think I might need that!Thanks, Peter S | |
| Audio Research PH3 SE - Shelter 501 II compatibili I thought that the PH3 was a moving magnet or high output moving coil phono preamp. If I am right about that, I don't think it has enough gain to run the Shelter. The Shelter has an output level of 0.5mv, and probably needs around 60db of gain to ... | |
| WAF Friendly Soundproofing ? Good advice Nsgarch. I have that no my door, and it works wonders. Sound really "leaks" through the gaps.Two things. On my unit, you must router a slot in the bottom of the door for the "guillotine" to fit into when not extended. Also, I don't thi... | |
| Benchmark DAC1 Note that in point #3, all of these are digital inputs. So you can't run anything analog thru it (as a preamp). Would work for the right satellite radio though! | |
| Review: Threshold 400a Amplifier That is a great review - thank you. It seems like there are many "bang-for-the-buck" Nelson Pass designs out there. I would love it if people would chime in on this and other Pass amps from the past that are still very worthy of recognition and co... | |
| Benchmark DAC1 Slov_dream: you can definitely use the volume control to make this unit a combined dac, single-input preamp to drive an amplifier. The volume control also controls RCA jacks on the back.This DAC has a resampling scheme that has very strong jitter ... | |
| How can I raise the height of the sound stage I built stands for my 988's by going to a timber frame housing company and getting roughly 5' of solid 12"x12" fir used for posts in timber home construction. The cost was around $200, and they cut it into two 26" lengths, one for each speaker. It... | |
| USB outboard sound card comment I also am of the understanding that normal 16/44 CD data rates can be handled just fine with USB1. It's when you get into the 24/96 that having USB2 becomes helpful. | |
| Cary Preamps Note: I notices that someone was looking for a SLP-50a here on Agon. A thought on obtaining that relatively rare unit:I sent my "NEW" preamp (designed by Cary) over to Cary's service dept. to have the tube compliment changed to the same as the 50a... |