s23chang
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| Best Vintage Speakers? Be very careful on selecting vintage ribbon speakers when they get old. Especially if they came from high humidity environment. | |
| Best Vintage Speakers? It all depends on size requirement of the speakers that can fit your room and the amps you have to drive them.Vintage high efficiency speakers from the late 50s and early 60s are extremely desirable.12" ~ 15" Tannoy, Jensen, Lorenz, Altec, Western... | |
| Looking for a good tuner with AM too Accuphase Made one too | |
| Anyone tried the 29ga. 5n Pure Silver wire? For long ICs, the home brew cable might not work well. Proper shielding needed. Aside from that, 29ga is too thin for this application. Personally, I wouldn't use anything longer than 6 ft for single-ended ICs.As far as purity claim and cryo claim... | |
| Best amp for Rogers LS3/5a + AB1 subwoofer? McIntosh MC-240 and Rogers Ls3/5A is one of the best combo. | |
| Best way to hear sonic signature of a cable? "try to listen on the most efficient set of speakers possible- you will hear more of the differences..."This is not always true. One can argue that high efficient speakers has lower requirement. Therefore, you can't hear as bigger difference becau... | |
| Understanding phono stages/What to look for? Many of the low end SS phono stages sounded more compressed than the tube gear version. BC isn't that great when it was compared with all my full function tube preamps. It is nice and quiet but very harsh and distorted highs. Even the the bass got... | |
| More output from Analog set up, MC Transformer? My VDH black beauty is 0.5 mV. It was not enough gain with my ARC SP-11 MK II in my power hungry system (80db speakers.) However, it is enough for my friend's lower setup. You probably need more gain. Something like Audio Research Reference phono ... | |
| Buy an Audio Research SP10 MkII or an SP11 MkII ? put the tubes on the floor and roll... which tube goes further wins : )What sirspeedy means is swapping different brand and model of tubes (like tires on your car) and you'll get different performance. Some do better in (wet, ice, dry pavement, sa... | |
| Idler wheel drive vs Belt The EMT930ST is a whole different experience. I can safely said that it was an excellent plug and play setup.It was a very solid and extremely smooth table.I never own TNT Vs but the Oracle, VPI and SP 10 IIs are no match for this beast.Just remem... | |
| MM vs. MC Assume you have good table and arm combo, shopping cartridge and phono stage can be tricky.It's that a matter of price rather it is a matter of taste.Matching is quite important | |
| How do I eliminate FM interference and low hum? Put a small capacitor like .47uf/50V from RCA output gound to the body of your preamp chasis.This the ground loop problem in your preamp. Probably bad grounding point somewhere.This should do the trick. | |
| am/fm tube tuners Bryanhod, unless you have many good stations or you are super loaded, jumping on expensive FM-tuners is a money loosing investment. There are many good internet radiostations out there but not as good sound quality as the FM tuners. Most of the au... | |
| am/fm tube tuners I'm perfectly happy with my vintage MR71 with Richard Modeferri mod/upgrade via audioclassics.I've done some comparison with some other top SS performers and MR71 sounded more musical and transparent to me. The SS tuners sounded thin and light. Ho... | |
| am/fm tube tuners Eldarford, you forgot the Magnum dynalab MD 108 tuner. It uses 2 12AX7 tubes for output stage. |