photon46
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| 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. | |
| moding and the inexperienced Unless you are talking about the GFP-750, be wary of expensive upgrades to Adcom preamps. You'll quickly find yourself throwing money at products with limited performance potential and poor resale value. "Reasonably priced" and cottage industry au... |