photon46
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| Frustrated with the sound of my system Seems like Gcdm01's advice about getting an inexpensive meter and test tone cd would be helpful in at least some respects as Stuartbmw3's room dimensions are pretty much a worst case scenario. Not sure how far up into the midrange an 18x18x9 room'... | |
| phono preamp for Grado Master low output to C11 "Do I really need to go crazy?" You may or may not go crazy, but be prepared to have an extended hunt. I have the same cartridge and like you, needed a new phono pre that could handle the low output. I assumed the specified gain and great reviews ... | |
| Am I going to regret the Gallo 3.1s? My advice is not to buy these speakers without hearing them first UNLESS you are able to buy a set at such a good price you can sell them without fiscal regrets. (Probably good advice for any audio purchase unless one has money to burn?) I read Sr... | |
| Am I going to regret the Gallo 3.1s? Not sure from your post whether or not you've actually listened to them yet? | |
| Fed up with people making noise at classical shows THANK GOD we all weren't attending the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris! | |
| Best headphones under $200 used? As another headphone newbie who just got his first set of cans, I found head-fi.org to be an essential site for getting information. If you're set on closed 'phones for their isolation abilities, choices are more limited because top choices seem t... | |
| best rock SACDs Best sounding rock sacd I own is Joe Satriani's "Engines of Creation." | |
| best wood for speaker cabinets ? oak,cherry, balti Manoterror, our studio constructed a number of sculptures from baltic birch plywood using a two-axis cnc machine to cut the basic shapes before lamination and finishing. It is very time consuming to work with this construction technique from a fin... | |
| best wood for speaker cabinets ? oak,cherry, balti I too have been thinking of building a set of speakers, possibly Audio Note, in the future. The following link to a forum thread on Audiocircle references an interesting material to be incorporated in constrained layer speaker cabinet construction... | |
| What does it take to qualify as a reviewer? Trying to be serious here, I'd say a GOOD reviewer would have, first of all, broad exposure to the great variety of manufacturers and designs that exist. That's a corollary of the problem with much advice given in online forums, you usually don't ... | |
| Looking for preamp w accurate/fine volume control After reading your question again, am I correct in assuming that you want a remote control preamp? The Bel Canto uses digital control of an analog potentiometer and it looks like your Primare does as well. This is pretty recent engineering practic... | |
| New Vinyl - "scratchy"? If you cleaned it well first, you're probably just the unlucky purchaser of a poorly pressed copy. Unfortunately, If you buy enough new vinyl releases, you're bound to occasionally get a noisy copy. It's one of the annoying pitfalls of this hobby.... | |
| Looking for preamp w accurate/fine volume control How much preamp gain will you need? Active preamp gain varies from product to product, anywhere from around +6db to perhaps +28db. | |
| vibration control I use some form of vibration control or tuning under just about every piece of equipment. ( Many times people use the term "vibration control" when the item in question actually just varies resonant frequencies.) As Roxy54 says, they all sound dif... | |
| All Amps Sound the Same.... Head for the high ground. This thread may quickly morph into another version of "do power cords really make a difference?" Onhwy61 makes a good point though, consider the source and the intended audience before lobbing invective. |