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| Anyone have experience to share regarding the Ortofon Cadenza Bronze MC cartridge? I own both the Cadenza Bronze and Black and I like the Bronze quite a bit better. But the cartridge I use now is Andy Kim's modified Denon DL-103 cartridge. In my system it outperforms all the Ortofon, Audio Technica, and Koetsu cartridges I ow... | |
| PS Audio BHK300 didn’t work this morning. I blew one of my BHK 300's back in December. Totally my fault, I apparently sent a massive static discharge through my system that also took out a couple of tubes in my preamp. I'm grateful the BHK 300's protection mode stopped it from getting t... | |
| DDC or Better Streamer? Personally I use an Innuos Pulsar even though I hate the Sense App. It simply sounds better than any other streamer I have tried and much better than Roon which is incredibly irritating since Roon is a vastly better interface. I use the Holo May... | |
| Best Holographic Speakers ~$7k per pair You have gotten a lot of genuinely terrible advice from people that I'm guessing have never heard a truly high end system. Assuming you can pull the speakers at least 60" from the back wall almost any panel speaker will be much more holographic t... | |
| Shakti Stone It does nothing in my system. | |
| Advices on 10 mhz Clocks I have the LHY OCK 2 and I think it is great. It has improved everything I have hooked it up to. Cables do matter. The LMR 240 is fine for 50 Ohm. The Harmonic-Technology DC III, 50 ohm is better but much more expensive. I didn't compare 75 o... | |
| Aurender N20 versus Innuos Zen NG FWIW, a friend lent me a Grimm MU2 and in my system it outperformed a Pulsar/Holo May KTE combination and provided all the benefits that Roon offers. Personally I think the Innuos Sense App is a joke with a minimal buggy interface but I continue ... | |
| Innuos Zen next-gen vs. Pulsar for streaming...? Directly comparing any Innuos product in a meaningful way is very difficult since they only support a USB output and I am unaware of any DACs that have two USB inputs. Consequently there is no real time A/B testing. Even if the Statement Next G... | |
| I'm curious. What is your "normal" listening volume? So far there have been exactly two posts that specify whether they are measuring with dBA or dBC. Without specifying which standard you are using the numbers are meaningless. Almost all contemporary music that has real bass will measure 10-15 dB... | |
| Puritan 156 and Furman Don't plug the Puritan into the Furman. First, the Puritan is better than the Furman (I own a Furman Elite-15 PFi and a 156). Second, cascading power conditioners like that is very likely to rob your music of dynamics, especially the amplifiers ... | |
| Cartridge - sweet spot on the cost/sound curve? The Needleclinic NC-103 is less than $600 and it blows aways cartridges costing multiples of its price. https://trackingangle.com/equipment/needle-clinics-denon-103-phono-cartridge | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT @antigrunge2 I switched to the Sense app running an Innuous Pulsar after comparing it to Roon and deciding the sound was enough better to justify the expense and my leaving the Roon operating system which is immensely better than Sense (I have a l... | |
| At the top of the line is it really all that different? I have had the privilege of listening to several very high end systems where the owners were happy to do A/B comparisons of various cables, amps, and DACs and often the differences between equally high end components are startling. In my more mod... | |
| Changing the 6550 power tube in a Audio Research Ref 6SE Preamp I have the ARC Ref 5SE. I use a new production Tung-Sol 6550. I preferred that to the SovTek 6550 although the difference was negligible and probably just due to the SovTek having to many hours on it. Surprisingly, I also preferred the new prod... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato Shocking how stupid and narrow minded people get as they age. But hey, be happy in your rut. |