rauliruegas
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| Cartridge recommendation for classical listening Dear @rvpiano : I agree with shubert on the Nagaoka and inside your budget you can 't go wrong with the Nagaoka MP-500 and it's a hard cartridge to beats and a true chalange for any other today cartridge: http://v2.stereotimes.com/post/nagaoka-mp... | |
| Running signal from balanced outs and single ended at the same time Dear @benzman : Normally those output are independent in between and then you can't have any problem.Now, it depends of that Cary DMS600 desdign. The easy answer you already have it: test it and you will now about.Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT ... | |
| BEST HARMLESS/SIGNATURELESS SPEAKERS CAPACITORS. Of course that I already ordered the input caps for the amplifiers that I will set up at the end of the overall evaluations and after the Powertron/Vishay resistor tests.R. | |
| Is a Lyra Kleos good with a current-mode phono preamp? Dear @lloydc : You don't have any problem with your Kleos, go a head but if you still have a doubt then ask directly to Lyra and not Agon.Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,R. | |
| BEST HARMLESS/SIGNATURELESS SPEAKERS CAPACITORS. Dear friends: The main subject in this thread is exactly its title.In the past I already tested almost all the very expensive " snake oil " caps to know which is better, unfortunatelly all are more colored than a true cap.Today I’m using my first ... | |
| BEST HARMLESS/SIGNATURELESS SPEAKERS CAPACITORS. Dear @grannyring friends: Following your advise and as I posted I soldered the Wima caps in parallel instead using one cap with the capacitance need it value. So two caps in parallel to achieve that capacitance value. If I remember you told that t... | |
| Caps for crossover upgrade for Opera Grand Callas Loudspeakers Dear @grunter : " audio have to be tried out. "I agree and was what I did with out take in count what the experts or any one could say about.Many times problem is that we all audiophiles, some way or the other, are " followers " and we just d... | |
| Jupiter Caps in tube preamp application Dear @jimbones : Accuracy can means several things depending on what we are judging and accuracy is only one part of an overall audio item design.Accuracy with out a good item design is useless. Accuracy must comes along good design with good pass... | |
| Acoustic Suspension sound in 2020? Dear @aainpb : Not from the 70's but I own and am the original owner of a marvelous ADS L2030 ( heavy tweaked by me, you can read here: https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/3080 ).Those are acoustic suspension and exist other two models: the L1... | |
| Near Field Listneing Dear @arvingcastro : I agree with @teajay that avoiding room self reflections/resonances always gives us and put us nearer to the MUSIC.In the other side almost all the recorded MUSIC was made it by recording microphones " seated " at near field ... | |
| Caps for crossover upgrade for Opera Grand Callas Loudspeakers Dear @grunter : " the most upgrading mod is sobstituting the 100uF electrolytic cap... " crossoveragree, I experienced the same in my system where the woofer speaker came with an electrolytic 100uf.I can see and read that you took the road/path ... | |
| Jupiter Caps in tube preamp application Dear @jimbones : I used too REL caps years ago and I can say for sure that in my first hand experiences today no other cap can beats Wima.As I said you can't lost anything with.R. | |
| Jupiter Caps in tube preamp application Dear @jimbones : For years I was using caps as Duelund, Mundorf, Jantzen, V-caps, Sonicraft and the like suddenly I made a " crazy " change and a few months ago I " discovery " that WIMA caps are the true path to go. It's a non-audiophile cap but... | |
| Jupiter Caps in tube preamp application Btw, Tidal 250K speakers uses boutique caps as tone control using at each speaker crossover a blend of five different caps: https://www.tidal-audio.com/technology-crossover/ https://www.tidal-audio.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/x-over.jpg @m... | |
| Jupiter Caps in tube preamp application Dear @jimbones : " I wouldnt classify it as a tone control. I dont hear any shift in tonality or any emphasis is any one area except maybe a bit stronger in the low bass region. "Again, all high-end/boutique caps are way colored and we like th... |