radicalsteve
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| "D" amps, general discussion who's 1 and why? I have been a tube guy for a couple of decades but after demoing and then moving to Spectron amps - from stereo to mono block there can never be any doubt I made an improvement in my enjoyment of my rig. Now, there are lots of good SS, Tube and cl... | |
| Tubed Pre match with a Spectron Musician IIISE? Dev, I will try to be succinct. The Spectron is a very revealing amp; my first one replaced tube Sonic Frontier Power 3's and the increased clarity was obvious from day 1. Over about 500 hours the amp settled in to become clear, open, coherent and... | |
| Tubed Pre match with a Spectron Musician IIISE? Don't want to go off topic, but last night I got the MONOBLOCK MIII's up and running with my tubed SF Line 3. I am sure there is a lot of settling down to take place as I have also had to add new Y-cables and different speaker connections and a ne... | |
| Tubed Pre match with a Spectron Musician IIISE? Dev, it is early days yet to report on the monoblock configuration - but as soon as I have a view I will post an update. Unfortunately I won't be in T.O., but on the slopes at Tremblant!As to the Ref 3 I am assuming it is purely an impedance miss-... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Lewm, the plinth is made of a combination of solid birds-eye maple and brazilian rosewoods. I did not weigh it, but based on my gym workouts, ha-ha, I figure around the 40lb mark +/- 5. My japanese lead plinth for my TT-101 is about the same at 20... | |
| Tubed Pre match with a Spectron Musician IIISE? I had an ARC Ref 3 for a while with a single M III and the bybee /vcap upgrades and did not like it at all - very bright and hard. I reverted back to my supped up Sonic Frontiers line 3SE++ and I am quite satisfied with the noise coming out of thi... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Raul, if you cruise around the vintageknob website you can see some great DD tables from Japan in the 70's and 80's. All of which attract horrendous prices these days if you can ever find a good one. As an indicato,r one of supposed greats is the ... | |
| What tonearm is recommended for the denon 103r "With the 103r?!? Wow! Amazing what some folks think they know"Probably more than you Dan ed - but then I never said it was lore, but physics and real life testing are valid. | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III I should also add some fuel to the fire here ... I forgot to mention that my SP-10 was outperformed by my Victor TT-101 in a very heavy japan designed lead plinth. Unfortunately when I went on a business trip I left the TT-101 on for a week and wh... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Lewm, my plinth would qualify as a CLD heavy plinth (50lbs) a la Johnnantais so I am not sure there would be much benefit from anything much heavier, but a slate job would definitely look nice - it is something I might think about.I believe if the... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Nice thread - I am the proud owner of the SP 10 that John "sold locally" that has the working strobe! The table came with this very heavy metal Mcurdy plinth and I have the table screwed into the top of that plinth, dispensed with the very large M... | |
| What tonearm is recommended for the denon 103r Forget Triplanar and the like, you have to go with an arm that has high effective mass. I have real experience with many arms and the 103R, including Triplanar, Audiocraft 4400, Micro-Seiki Max 282, Sony PUA 1600L, Lustre GST 801, SME V, and Fidel... | |
| How many use Vintage Hi-Fi systems? Great discussion! I have a "quasi vintage" system at our ski chalet. Yamaha 2010 amp _ cost me $250 and it has both mm and mc phono with variable loading etc etc. Very sweet and punchy sound. Sources are Micro-Seiki BL 51, ADC arm and Empire 750 c... | |
| Spectron Musician III - Can anyone comment on it? I have had so many amps, SS and tube, but nothing compares to the finesse, transparency, flow, musicality, detail, dynamics and life-like sound of the new Spectron amps. If you have one (or 2) of these in your system, you will never think about up... | |
| upgrade from Sonic Frontiers Line 1 to 3 SE+ ? Disclosure - I own an Line 3 SE!After having had many preamps in my system, the Line 3 has become my reference preamp. For the eagle eyed you will see I currently have an ARC Ref3 up for sale ..... I think that says it. IMHO you will never need an... |