roberjerman
Responses from roberjerman
| How best to sell my dad's McIntosh integrated amp, CD player speakers? List your gear here on Audiogon! Any dealer will only give you a fraction of what it's worth! | |
| Old Legendary tubes vs New Kids on the block Amperex/Siemens/Tele vs Psvane/TAD/Shugaung All today's expensive tube gear (ARC, McIntosh, Luxman, Jadis, CJ ...) come with current production tubes! | |
| Old Legendary tubes vs New Kids on the block Amperex/Siemens/Tele vs Psvane/TAD/Shugaung +1 mozartfan! Burn-in is a clever marketing ploy to cheat the neurotic and gullible! Along with cryo treatment, fuses, power cords and AC conditioners! | |
| Getting close to starting the upgrade process... I agree with millercarbon! Scrap the Linn AV system and start over with an integrated amp (Parasound) and speakers (Tekton). Add one of the new Technics TT's ($1800) for LP use, along with a Schiit Mani phono stage. | |
| Getting close to starting the upgrade process... A $1K Grado is at least as good as a $3K Soundsmith! | |
| Getting close to starting the upgrade process... Joe Grado invented MI cartridges back in the 1950's! Bang Olufsen were latecomers! Grado has an excellent MI cartridge for all budgets! The wood-bodied versions are particularly excellent and more affordable than the Soundsmith cartridges. | |
| SME 3009 II Unimporved -- "Thin" Sound The Hana SL has a Shibata-profile stylus - again a superior shape capable of better detail retrieval than an elliptical stylus. | |
| SME 3009 II Unimporved -- "Thin" Sound Avoid high-output mc cartridges. None of them sound as good as low-output mc's! | |
| SME 3009 II Unimporved -- "Thin" Sound For an SUT I can recommend a Bellari. I have one in my collection - $500 and USA-made. I always prefer a SUT over any tube or transistor high-gain phono stage for mc cartridges! Superior dynamics and far lower noise floor. | |
| SME 3009 II Unimporved -- "Thin" Sound Get a Hana SL mc cartridge and a good SUT (step-up transformer). This combination into the mm input on the Modulus will give you all the "life" and dynamics missing from your present rig! Nothing wrong with the Thorens/SME combination! | |
| Denon DA 307 and DA 309 I have a 307. I have used it successfully with the Denon 103 mc cartridges. An excellent arm! | |
| Should the Tone Arm be Removed When Installing Cartridge? You might damage the bearings if you use the tonearm as a hammer! Otherwise, no! | |
| ACDC Back in Black. ACDC's Stiff Upper Lip CD sounded REAL GOOD when heard through the Ohm Sound Cylinders/Carver TFM15cb! | |
| Shortcut or badcut? Buy a pair of JanZen D-130 electrostatic tweeters! These were used in days of yore to improve the treble of Acoustic Research and KLH box speakers. Unfortunately long out of production. I have a restored pair, along with vintage AR's and KLH's! | |
| Chain of command The signal source has the MOST affect on sound quality! You can't make a silk purse out of a ... |