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| adapter plate jelco sa-370h tone arm technics sl 1200mkIII install Does it have to be metal? Get a round piece of wood and drill holes? How about an acrylic disc? Those can be laser cut at a plastics fab place. | |
| adapter plate jelco sa-370h tone arm technics sl 1200mkIII install I have seen some Jelco adapter plates on ebay for the SL1200. Your arm seems to have the same mounting distance as a | |
| VPI Scout or GEM Dandy PolyTable I wouldn't discount the Polytable because of it's weight or use of polymers. You get a great tonearm that makes cartridge swapping easy. From an engineering standpoint, a non-metallic chassis is not necessarily a bad thing. | |
| Denon to Parasound Cardas has a good write up on room setup. www.cardas.com/room_setup_main.phpI had the F12's a few years back and I never felt the need to use a high powered amp, your set up with no back wall might be adding to your problem. Try some nearfield li... | |
| Current NAD integrated amps, what are your impressions? Nad amps are a bit of a mixed bag. The current lineup does have QC issues from what I can tell. I had a C375BEE that had to be serviced after 30 days of use. I like the C320BEE a lot so I am sure your amp is very good for the money. I currentl... | |
| Denon to Parasound I find the f12s to be flat with fatiguing highs with my denon. I bet the parasound amp alone makes little to no difference. These speakers are quite sensitive and don't need a lot of juice, so it is not a power/current issue. Maybe placement o... | |
| Prima luna Pro Logue intergrated amp.... Will it make my Martin Logan's sing? Matt, the Primaluna is not Class A but that has nothing to do with the ability to drive the Logans. Even though they have powered woofers, the panels are not an easy load for low powered tube amps. Having owned Martin Logans, I say use a robust ... | |
| SS pre sounds like tubes "SS pre sounds like tubes" There is no such thing as far as I know and when someone says his/her amp sounds "tube like", I usually assume he/she has never owned a tube amp. I would love to hear specific examples like abc ss amp or preamp sounded j... | |
| Are marantz power amps any good? Nesto, you would connect your front AVR preouts to the HT bypass input of an integrated. When you watch movies, the integrated then acts as a power amp for the front speakers. You would connect all your music sources to the other integrated inpu... | |
| integrated or separates...on a $1200 price point? Consider Yamaha A-S1000 or a used A-S2000. Really refined and with exceptional build quality. I used to have a Musical Fidelity A3.5. It was not bad sounding but the parts quality was mediocre at best. Jamicon caps and such. | |
| Suggestion used tube amp between $1,500-2,000 Another vote for Quicksilver and there is always Rogue Audio to consider in this price range. I do disagree slightly with people recommending higher power tube amps though. That will depend on your room size. My speakers are 90 db sensitive in ... | |
| Vandy or Maggy? In my quest for speakers that could do classical well I did try the ET LFT-8B for a few months. While the highs very polite I could never get tight bass from the woofer in my room. The biggest drawback was they could not play loud. With bass heavy... | |
| Clearaudio Concept MM cartridge The cart output and coil inductance are virtually the same as is the recommended load capacitance. I doubt there is any difference internally but believe what you must. I am merely suggesting you can get the electrically equivalent AT95 with an up... | |
| Clearaudio Concept MM cartridge Since it's basically an AT95E with a better stylus why not just get the AT95E with a Shibata or HE tip and save some money? | |
| Lateral move or real upgrade? Gosthouse, I still think the Bifrost with the Vlink will be a lateral move. The Vdac II would be a slight upgrade. Try to upgrade the power supply of your Vdac if you have not already. Bifrost is not a bad dac, I just don't think it is a step up f... |