photon46
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| Mccormack DNA125 or Belles 150A Hot Rod You're just going to have to take a chance if you can't audition. Speaker/amp synergy is difficult to forecast. I read all the great buzz about the Belles Hot Rod, took the bait and bought one. Turned out to be an unreliable, mediocre sounding amp... | |
| Empire Turntables New in Box-Worth Anything? The two main things to watch out for are availability of drive belts and a poor condition phono cable. The phono cable mates to the arm with a funky and unique connector I was never able to find anywhere else. If that craps out, I think you'd have... | |
| Calling all Musicians out there I think the closet thing to Audiogon for musicians is Harmony_Central.Com. The site is primarily slanted to guitar oriented interests. I have bought and sold guitars in their advertising section with very good results. I think that a more serious,... | |
| The VPI Turntable pluuged into a PS Audio P300 I've had my Scout running off of a P300 for a year with no problems. The only thing you have to remember is that you must switch back to standard 60hz. waveform before turning on your turntable if you've been using multiwave for digital listening.... | |
| technics 1200 cartridge and preamp choices The Grado is designed for .4-4.5mv outputs, but the Denon is only .25. A higher output moving coil will work it would appear. | |
| technics 1200 cartridge and preamp choices If you are set on using moving coil catridges, you don't want the Grado PH-1, it's only for moving magnet carttridges. You're going to need more gain for a Denon catridge, which has rather low output. To really give you better advice, it helps to ... | |
| Speaker Height? As usual, there's no simple answer. From my listening experience, I'd say there is SOME correlation between soundstage size and the size of the speaker. However, the talents of the designer(s) and the design goals can confound your expectations in... | |
| Your Favorite Austin City Limits I'll always remember Timbuk 3's performance. They were a tremendously underappreciated duo. Most folks don't remember them for anything other than their one mainstream hit. Pat & Barbara's presence in the music scene is sorely missed. | |
| Gallo REfF3's-All their cracked up to be? FWIW, I had a rather extended listening session to the 3.1's a couple weeks ago. They were powered by a Cary V12 amp, Cary SL98P preamp, Soundstring cables, and a Arcam CD192 player. I would have to say I was, like Ojgalli, underwhelmed. After all... | |
| Audio Mags/A believer or skeptic? The more I listen, the more I marvel at how disparate our auditory perceptions must be. It is very rare to find products with universal acclaim or disdain, so I read everyone's comments with an open mind. As to mags, I've learned over the years wh... | |
| What happens when the Wife cleans the audio room Predictably, the Maggie 1.6's are moved back 2 feet from their normal spot. I've got to get a set Mye stands to put a stop to that. Can't complain really, she's very indulgent of my obsession and enjoys good music and sound too. | |
| PsAudio P-3-- or UPC 200 Zar, don't worry about the increased power consumption if you are only powering front end components with a p300. The p300 only uses 60 watts at idle. The power consumption of your front end components doubles when they run through the P300. Howev... | |
| Vinyl question It's all about the dificult proposition of maintaining profitability in a manufacturing situation with low volume sales numbers. Vinyl, while growing in popularity, is still a small, insignificant niche of the music industry. It's a lot more compl... | |
| I hear the radio..... on my turntable... help I had this problem and corrected it by switching from an unshielded to a shielded table/preamp interconnect. | |
| Wood blocks underneath components?? snake oil? David12, I wonder to what degree the golden section ratio really contributes to the effectiveness of wood footers. It certainly makes for good ad copy but it's application may be psuedo-science in this case? The golden ratio certainly crops up ove... |