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| Cartridge, Preamp advice: Bottlehead Seduction? Okay, this will fully reveal my ignorance: what precisely IS a soldering "station?" | |
| Cartridge, Preamp advice: Bottlehead Seduction? Mofimadness:Cool! How hard is it to build for somebody who hasn't tried to solder anything in a long, long time? ;-) | |
| Cartridge, Preamp advice: Bottlehead Seduction? Thanks for the information, Dan_ed. I'm a little concerned whether my soldering skills are up to the task of building this kit, but my dexterity is good and the company and user community seems to be very strong on support, so I may give it a try. | |
| Best budget phono preamp for Unison Unico? Mingles,I contacted the folks at Bottlehead. I was very impressed by their friendly, helpful attitude. I'm thinking more and more that I may get the Seduction and just take my time building it. It seems I'd be well rewarded for the effort. | |
| Best budget phono preamp for Unison Unico? Mingles,Hmmm..... there's a Jolida JD-9A with Underwood Level 1 mods for sale right now on A'Gon for an asking price of $495. I wonder how that compares to the Seduction (given the fact that the Jolida will accommodate a a wider range of cartridges? | |
| Small room, "budget priced" speaker advice, please Knownothing,Thanks a lot for the links. I'll use them as a starting point. I know I'm still not at the "That What I'm Talkin' About" position! ;-) | |
| Small room, "budget priced" speaker advice, please I'd like to get some help here from somebody with better ears than mine. The dealer who sold me the Arro's offered to come by and help me with installation, and I may very well take him up on that. Besides, this was the first pair of Arro's he'd e... | |
| Best budget phono preamp for Unison Unico? Mingles,Yes, I've seen that option. Thing is, opinion on the JD-9 here on Audiogon seems to a little mixed. | |
| Small room, "budget priced" speaker advice, please I haven't yet tried mass loading. Been too busy messing with placement. | |
| Small room, "budget priced" speaker advice, please Folks,Snuck the Arro's out from the rear wall another 6" when nobody was looking. ;-) Yowie!! The soundstage firmed up by another degree and the bass response deepened radically. I don't even think I've scratched the surface of what the Arro's can... | |
| Best budget phono preamp for Unison Unico? Mingles,Well,the consensus here seems to be, "Get your hands on a good tube preamp and don't even mess with the Unico board." The bottlehead seduction looks cool, but I've never soldered anything in my life, so I'm a little intimidated. | |
| Best budget phono preamp for Unison Unico? Christopher_h,That cool to know... I'm a tube noob, myself, so the information is valuable.You don't happen to be using the Unico phono stage, do you? | |
| Best budget phono preamp for Unison Unico? I was wondering about that, but since this unit would be feeding through the Unico's tubed front end, anyway, I thought it might be okay.Hmmmmm.... | |
| Best budget phono preamp for Unison Unico? Hey!It turns out that I can order the phono preamp plugin (it comes on a single circuit board) from the US distributor for $250, which is certainly reasonable. Question is, does anybody know how good the Unico phono stage is? | |
| Small room, "budget priced" speaker advice, please Upon reflection, I think that some of what I'm experiencing has to do with the extent that the Internet (both retail and sites like Audiogon) has changed how you shop for high-end audio.When I bought my first good system (PS Audio Amp, Vandersteen... |