plato
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| I have my table now I need a phono, please help I'll put in another vote for the Phonomena. I can verify that it's a very high bang-for-the-buck piece. I'm presently using mine with a Michell Orbe SE with a Wilson Benesch Act 0.5 arm and a Shelter 501 II cartridge. I'm very surprised at how nic... | |
| Made me laugh.... The size of the "Neatness Center" seems very realistic... | |
| has anyone heard the nuforce amplifiers Rgurney, not to steal Jwpstayman's thunder, but in my systems, the Nuforce seem to make it impossible to tune in weak stations when the Nuforce amps are powered up. I have two tuners in other systems on a different floor than the Nuforce system an... | |
| Lucinda Williams Fans? I like her CD's. I've seen her on TV and she always sounds flat. I don't know if they doctor her voice on the CD's but they seem to sound better than she does live...? | |
| Any experience with the Nuforce Ref 8 mono amps? They will play louder than a conventional 100 Wpc amp without the usual compression and distortion. This is because they are capable of delivering very high momentary peak power at very low distortion. In other words, they have considerably more h... | |
| Any experience with the Nuforce Ref 8 mono amps? I am actually in the process of reviewing the NuForce Reference 8 amps for the Stereo Times. I cannot offer a full report here as I've only had the NuForce amps a couple of weeks but I can offer some initial impressions. I will also say that a fri... | |
| Gain, volume and output power If you're talking about a basic power amp with a passive volume control on the input then wide-open relates to full volume. If you're talking about an integrated amplifier with and active input stage then the amp will probably be pushed to full vo... | |
| Poor Man's "Super-Speaker" System Way back in the day I set up a crazy system that used Acoustat 1+1 electrostatic speakers flanked by Maggie MG-1 Improved speakers for bass.The system was biamped and used a custom-built electronic crossover. I had a nice tube preamp feeding a Haf... | |
| PS Audio "Gain Cell" Amps & Preamps? Tvad, nice try, but Henry Ho of H20 is a different person than Sam Ho of HiFi Review Magazine. HoHoHo! | |
| PS Audio "Gain Cell" Amps & Preamps? I have just finished my evaluation of the GCC-250 for The Stereo Times. It should be published in about a month. I don't want to let the cat out of the bag, but let's just say that my review will present an interesting contrast to Mr. Ho's. | |
| So my wife says to me this morning Cableplex, I used to own a VPI Aries with the JMW 10 arm and ClearAudio Gamma cartridge and I could never get it to sound the way I wanted it to. I went to a Michell Gyro SE with a OL Rega 250 (and a Benz) and got much better results. My feeling i... | |
| Approaching Nirvana? Where is My Achilles Heel? I'm thinking that Paul McGowan wanted his amplifier to perform as good as possible for my upcoming review. He could have sent me either device yet he chose to send the UPC 200.I fail to see any advantage of using the Ultimate Outlets over the UPC-... | |
| Approaching Nirvana? Where is My Achilles Heel? Apparently, the Ultimate Power Cell (UPC 200), which lists for about $499, is an evolution of the Ultimate Outlet current conditioners. It has 4 high-grade AC outlets and contains two independent "Power Cells". Each power cell has two AC outlets. ... | |
| Approaching Nirvana? Where is My Achilles Heel? Hi Tvad,As you know, audiophile systems are usually "works in progress" and some of the things I currently have in my system were not there when I originally posted the virtual system.I'm actually in the process of evaluating the new PS Audio GCC-... | |
| Approaching Nirvana? Where is My Achilles Heel? Here's a nice, simple recipe for you:Replace that Monster Cable stuff with SignalCable copper speaker cables and interconnects. The Monster is smooth and musical, but it definitely lacks detail. Fast transients and nuances will be much better pres... |