ptmconsulting
Responses from ptmconsulting
| What makes the Bloom around instruments . . . Did you ever think that the "digital" Spectron amps, although very clean and detailed, are just not able to recreate the natural bloom of an instrument because of their digital nature? I know the good digital amps I've heard, and I've heard good a... | |
| Any news about the Magnepan MG 3.7? There will probably be some really good deals on used 3.6's next year. | |
| the mccomack dna 750m can run revel salon2 ? Who could think that those beasts wouldn't be able to drive anything? | |
| The Placement of Tonearm Counterweights Someting like the new Moerch arm Dave, ith counterweights to both sides and one in the rear? | |
| What Do You Hear When You Adjust VTA? For stylus that elliptical or non-fine lined, the VTA is less critical. Generally the description of tighter non-muddy bass and clean highs makes sense.But for a fin-line or Shibata stylus I think you need to listen a bit differently. The groove w... | |
| Best speaker in the US $ 30-45.000,00 range I need a sugar-momma. | |
| how do you determine anti-skate settings? check out this thread over at Vinyl Engine for some additional info and ideas{url]http://www.vinylengine.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=27850[/url] | |
| McCormack vs. Bryston amps ... and those SMC Audio upgrades make a huge improvement in the amps, taking them to a level Bryston can only dream about. Or you can by an updated one on the used market. They do come up from time to time. | |
| Kaplan GS vs. Kubala Sosna Emtiions Speaker Cables I know there's beena recent upgrade to the Kaplan cables to a Mk II status. It's supposed to make a significant improvement on an already very, very good power cord.There was a recent review on Positive Feedback.http://www.positive-feedback.com/Is... | |
| Need amp suggestion for PBN Montana EPS2. Try one of these, if you can (McCormack DNA 500):http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstran&1294355126&/Mccormack-DNA-500-Power-Amplif | |
| Did anyone experience Audio Prism's Ground Control According to Rick at EVS, sometimes tying the little buggers to the speaker cable with some soft cotton string at their top and bottom ends, or otherwise keeping them from resonating, has cured the "hardness" that some people are experiencing.Wort... | |
| Stoned Plinth It is likely that Soapstone is denser and will ring less than granite would, and thereby make for a better plinth. I used Corian for my TT because of it's propensity to be well damped not ring at all. Here's a pic.http://cgim.audiogon.com/i/vs/i/f... | |
| Advantages of bi-wire? I biwire because I had the extra cable available to do so, but I can't honestly say I heard that much of a difference. One thing to try before you spring for the extra cable ...Try hooking up your single wire cable as follows and see if you hear a... | |
| Fun Little Project for improving Dynamics Well, I may lose all credibility for stating this but, here goes ...I picked upo some of the Alan Maher littel boxes as part of a local club "group buy". We got a really inexpensive price on them so I thought it would be worth a shot for experimen... | |
| Upgrade suggestions from McCormack w/SMC mods? Well, I definitely found that going from my near Rev-A DNA .5 to a DNA 500 made a nice improvement overall. |