peterayer
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| Thiel 3.7 vs Wilson Sasha I would also love to see that list. | |
| Line Conditioner:To plug or not to plug Big Amp in Thanks Knownothing. When I talked to JPS Labs about what I was planning to do, they suggested that I would get even better results by using a top outlet and one of their better power cords, because the cord would filter out even more noise. I neve... | |
| Speaker footers – Ugh I recently went from four cones to three under my speaker bases. The bases have three threaded inserts in the back for this reason. I use rounded cones instead of spikes, both of which came with the speakers, because I have soft pine floors and th... | |
| Line Conditioner:To plug or not to plug Big Amp in I have hooked up my two Pass XA.5 amps directly to the panel on two dedicated 20A circuits via two 15' runs of JPS Labs in-wall AC cable with Furutech IEC connectors. The cable goes through the floor behind each amp. There are no outlets. This dir... | |
| System pairing Bighead63,I didn't read about your budget, but if you are seriously considering Pass, you may want to compare the class A amps to the A/B amps. The INT 150 or INT 30.5 integrated should be very good, simple options. Both are based on the newest am... | |
| Ortofon A90 or Air Tight PC-1 "Musical" (musicality) to me means "sounds like real music, ie, acoustic, unamplified, real instruments in a real space, etc." In other words, it sounds like the real thing - music. I don't get how "musical" became "warm, colored, pleasing distort... | |
| Ortofon A90 or Air Tight PC-1 Well, thank you for all of the responses. I've also received a few comments via email. The views seem pretty split. It's interesting that most like one or the other strongly, but not both. On the SME V, it seems the PC-1 sounds better. Some descri... | |
| Clearaudio Double Smart Matrix or Loricraft PRC4 Congratulations, Dev. I have the PRC4 in cherry. It's a great machine, but my stack of uncleaned LPs is growing because I spend all my time listening and not cleaning. One word of caution: if you follow the advice in the manual and suck up one spo... | |
| First Hi-Fi system If I were starting from scratch, I would start by finding a good local dealership and spending a bunch of time there listening to your own music. Buy what you like from one place, knowing it sounds good to your ears and have them set it up at your... | |
| Experienced audiophiles best speaker Looks like it's getting personal.Ebm did share with me his views about various Magico speakers while I was researching them. His opinion was brief though accurate and helpful IMO. | |
| Changing from an XV1-S Sounds like you are very enthusiastic. Congratulations Dcarol on you new cartridge. I have a friend who owns the XV-1s and he just bought an A90 but has not had a chance to set it up yet. I'm curious, have you ever heard an Air Tight PC-1? I would... | |
| Pass X1 and Rowland Capri Preamps If you are in touch with Mark @ Reno, you may also want to audition a used XP-10 to compare to the X-1. They do sound different. I had the X-1 and now own the XP-20. It's a different price point, but the sonic differences are interesting to compar... | |
| Experienced audiophiles best speaker My old Eggleston Rosa's went down to about 35 hz in my room and my Mini II's go down at least to that and maybe to low 30's, but the quality of that mid and upper bass is something to behold. They are expensive, but above about 35 hz, they are ext... | |
| Experienced audiophiles best speaker Has anyone read the latest review in TAS of the TAD CR-1? It must be incredible. It was the biggest rave I think I have ever read in a review of a speaker. Where can one audition it? | |
| Changing from an XV1-S DCarol,That was an interesting report. You heard a bunch of cartridges in a short time. Are you confident that there was enough time to set them all up properly, or was each cartridge in its own headshell or arm wand for easy swapping? I found tha... |