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| HELP Rega P-7; VPI Classic 2; Scout 2 or ? I had the Clearaudio Performance SE with the ceramic magnetic bearing and Satisfy Carbon arm. At the time I had the Clearaudio Talismann V2 cart. A great little kit for $5k. Clearaudio tables are very dynamic and transparent with great bass slam. ... | |
| Amps for Maxx 2's Pass Labs XA-100.5 Pure Class A monoblocks. 200 watt's into a 4 ohm load. They drive my Watt/Puppy 8's as loud as I would want w/o breaking a sweat. Solid class A sound with a firm grip on the bass unlike tube power amps. | |
| How important is the tonearm? 02-05-11: Mj908it's all gimmick. For below $500 each, you can find a table, a tonearm and a cart and enjoy music, [b]spending more than that is just for your ego[/b]LOL, you must be speaking of your system. News flash: All systems are not alike. I... | |
| Best phono stage balanced under $3000 used 05-20-06: Onhwy61The Clearaudio Balanced Reference fits your needs at used prices. The K&K and Ayre list new for less than $3,000. All of these will give you excellent, but not state of the art performance.The clearaudio Balance + for $2,500.0... | |
| Gruv Glide Good to know. Time to make my RCM decision... | |
| RCM recommendations are you talking about their new double matrix Professionalfor $4k ? Are the Clearaudio's up to the task ? | |
| RCM recommendations In the VPI 16.5 price range, the OKKI NOKKI looks pretty good. I like the idea of a float in the waste tank that prevents overflows inside the machine, metal construction material.Demo Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXXlxL0v78s&feature=pl... | |
| Tubes Through Solid State I liked tubes for the pre-amp, especially with edgy 16 Bit digital. I find no use for them with analog. I replaced my old Cary SLP-94 tubed with NOS Telefunken's with a vintage Mark Levninson 380S Solid State pre. It kills the tube pre-amp I had, ... | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Dailey driver: 2010 Porsche cayenne GTS. Bose surround, universal disk player.Fun Car:2004 Porsche 911 GT3. System is stock standard and can hardly hear it in the car. The music is the car's exhaust note. | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE Had a pair of Aerial Acoustic 10T's since 1995. Just sold them a few months ago and picked up a pair of lightly used Wilson Audio Watt/Puppy System 8 speakers. I expect them to last just as long in my system, if not longer. | |
| Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use? I use the PS Audio Perfect Wav system (trans & dac) for my digital playback. | |
| What CDP gets really close to vinyl? The best digital front end for $6k I have heard is the PS Audio Perfect wav system. You can burn hi-resolution wav files up to 24/192 and play them back natively via the PW transport on DVD or via the music server option in the DAC alone (The Brid... | |
| Shelter Harmony cart... a touch bright ? Thank you Ttbolad for your response. I have to admit that I was a bit concerned about the load disparity between my cart and the phono pre you mentioned, which is clearaudio's top of the line phono stage...The Balance Reference. My phono-pre is th... | |
| I NEED YOUR HELP with a turntable purchase I should mention my other associated equip:Clearaudio Balance + Phono stagemarke Levinson 380S pre-ampPass Labs XA 100.5 class A monoblocksWilson Watt/Puppy 8I am very happy with the analog rig. | |
| I NEED YOUR HELP with a turntable purchase My $15k analog rig:Clearaudio Innovation Wood CompactClearaudio Universal Arm with VTA liftShelter Harmony cart. |