retiredaudioguy
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| TU-8600S I borrowed the Harbeth P3ESRs and a BluOs box from my "kitchen" system, inserted the three NOS input & driver tubes, and a pair of WE 300Bs, hooked it up with Kimber PBJs and 4TCs and turned it on. Given its location streaming did not work so... | |
| TU-8600S I finished the build, I think it took about 15 hours overall. This kit is significantly more challenging than the TU-8600R. There are many more components (about 300 solder points) and there are a number of components whose leads must be bent ra... | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound Rockport speakers have outstanding transient response. There is a pair of Rockport Technologies Cygnus for sale on Audiogon - this is a $65k speaker on sale for $36.5k. i have the Atria IIs, two levels down from the Cygnus, they are totally tran... | |
| TU-8600S I would say 6 out of 10. Nothing too difficult but it does require care to not get solder bridges between soldering points as they are often very close, and there are a few large joints to be made, there are large solder only (no mechanical conne... | |
| TU-8600S The kit arrived - but was missing the PCBs for the Lundahls. An Email to Jon at Tubestore and the parts were shipped immediately. This kit is VERY different from the 8600R, it appears to be a completely new design, with many more parts and a ver... | |
| Looking for a more solid-feeling turntable (and maybe a new preamp) @bbilings Agreed about the arm lifter. I slowly lower the arm with the lever, the built in damper does not work. My JMW arm is unipivot and was a pain to get level. I also use a Koetsu black, and THAT was a pain to install, separate nuts and s... | |
| Looking for a more solid-feeling turntable (and maybe a new preamp) I have had my VPI Scout Master, with the JMW Memorial arm for about 20 years - zero issues & great performance. The Scoutmaster is massive enough but can still be lifted, an increasingly important factor to me as a pre-boomer! Sutherland d... | |
| Considering switching to XLR cables, Be very wary of XLR<->RCA conversion. XLR to RCA is often "ignore pin 3". RCA to XLR is often Live to pin2, Signal Ground to pin 1, GROUND PIN 3. Thus the rest of your amplification is single ended as a balanced input signal bypasses the p... | |
| Anybody ever dealt with Safe and Sound audio I made the journey, Mike & Aaron had set up their listening room ready for me. We installed the new K-01XD SE and my K-01XS and my Aurender. After an hour of intense critical listening I was totally convinced of the value of the upgrade. So... | |
| Vinyl playback - lack of bass? I did a quick comparison of the first few minutes of Scheherazade, between the SACD and the reissue Vinyl. I adjusted the volume so that the opening (bass heavy) chords were within a dB or so. The levels of the violin entry were subsequently som... | |
| Vinyl playback - lack of bass? It is tough for LPs to have loud, deep bass as it required large displacements (L-R & Up-Down) of the groove. No such limitations in Digital. If you have an LP and the digital remaster it would not surprise me to find that the CD/SACD has lo... | |
| Anybody ever dealt with Safe and Sound audio Thanks to everyone for their info. I spoke with Mike and Aaron on the phone, they will have a K-01XD SE for me on Friday. I'll take my K-01XS to compare, and my Aurender for auditioning tracks. Now that I am in VT gone are the days when I could... | |
| Anybody ever dealt with Safe and Sound audio Has anyone been to their physical location? | |
| And the biggest influence on sound quality is... One thing that we cannot fix is the quality of a recording, and I would, perhaps, argue that a good system might make a bad recording sound worse than a system with certain limitations (e.g. a soft system top end taming a hard recording). Also,... | |
| Volume level of commercial CD's. Another oops: those posts should have been in response to the "How Loud" discussion. Getting old! |