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| Biggest impact on you? Musical Fidelity kW linestage: gave me both what I liked best in passive and active preamps, and so much more. Well-Tempered Amadeus: even with it begging for a cartridge upgrade. | |
| Advice on switching to separates Whether or not you experience much improvement of a separates over an integrated may also depend on how the preamp stage of the integrated is implemented. Poor implementation of a preamp stage could mean separates or an integrated with a better pr... | |
| New 'Vinyl Flat' flattener? Anyone tried this with *really* warped records? | |
| Turntable / Arm combo for around $2000. new. For a budget like yours, your desire for simple set-up and desire for a new table I'd look into the Well-Tempered Simplex. It has great reviews as does the higher priced Amadeus. An ingenious design, no need for separate arms or temptations for to... | |
| Speakers that are RAP music proof "Rap is not music"? C'mon. Let's not go there bashing on musical styles you don't like. | |
| Preamp for Pass Pierre, What do you want out of your preamp? What isn't the ARC giving you? Any musical genres you prefer. | |
| For real bass freaks?? Other recommended must-do's for true bass freaks. 1) live Sunn 0))) concert 2) Pan Sonic live. And if you want to really give your system a bass workout and push it to its bass limits, grab albums by either, turn it up and press play/drop the need... | |
| Budget DAC Not out yet, but the Schiit Bitfrost specs certainly got my attention. Not to mention upgradeability down the road. | |
| Review: Shunyata Hydra 2 AC filter Well, it is often the case that folks find that everything except amps benefit from power conditioning. When I was investigating this, I found that to be the case with every power conditioned but the Running Springs Haley. Try your sources into th... | |
| Oppo Nuforce BDP-93NE The most-recent TAS has a comparison of the Nuforce mods and mentions a comparison to the 95 as well. 95 was preferred over NXE for 2-channel, but NXE preferred for multichannel output. | |
| Headphones integrateds with XLR preouts? I would recommend against an all-in-one solution that includes a DAC. There is so much progress in the DAC field right now, especially in sub $1000 DACs. Some DACs are even being designed with boards that can be swapped out when improved chips or ... | |
| First Watt: current vs voltage Liguy and bombay walla, Have you actually looked at the details and reviews of the F1 and F2? These are unique designs that do not work with speakers with crossovers. If you want to contradict Nelson Pass, fine by me. But take a look at the design... | |
| First Watt: current vs voltage F1 and F2 are the two current source amps. I would recommend reading the 6moons reviews to get a good feel for each model. A First Watt dealer can also be of great help. Mark at Reno HiFi is a great guy and has an excellent return policy so you ca... | |
| 5+ years old $5k player vs. current $2k player I'd go current or 1-2 yrs old. You might also want to consider going to computer audio with something like a Mac Mini as a transport to a newish DAC... | |
| Phono pre-amplifier The P75 does do MM, and has the PE mode that can be used with suitable LOMC carts... |