samhar
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| Rickie Lee Jones "Pop Pop" I have the ORG version and there is some distortion on "I'll Be Seeing You" at the start of the words ...morning.., ...park..., ...always... and...day... It sounds as if she moves slightly closer to the mike and loads it up or ( put proper termino... | |
| Experience of Mundorf S/O or S/G/O in Merlins VSM You might ask Dgarretson or Sns they should have some imput for you. | |
| Recommended interconnect phono to preamp FWIW Brooks Berdan told me to use 1.5 meter I/C, nothing less, from TT>phono. | |
| First Annual " Whaddya Get? for Xmas " MacBook for the listening chair!!!! | |
| Which tube monos? So many choices.Very intimidated It's worth a lot!! I've shied away from Watt Puppies and others thinking the Joules would have problems. Thanks for the information/education. | |
| 12ax7's to roll I agree with Andr 5751's would be the closest to the tele's clean detailed sound at reasonable $'s. The 5751 is a very low noise tube,less gain than 12AX7, but if your preamp has plenty of gain you will be OK. | |
| Which tube monos? So many choices.Very intimidated The impedance of the 8's drops to 2.2 ohms at 77Hz; the Joules don't like to see anything below 3ohms. I think this might eliminate the Joules as a good choice. | |
| Cartridge loading for Pass Labs Xono At the suggestion of Dlenslem, who likes to set up his Koetsus 0.4mV at 1K with a VTF of 1.92-1.94 gr, I tried 1K and 1.92 gr. It was apparent immediately there was more energy/dynamics and much better imaging but I was unable to get enough timbre... | |
| Joule Electra VZN-100 Marquis Question From the front(closest to you) back:First 6DJ8, second 6DJ8, third 12AX7 and to the left and right of the 12Ax7 6350's | |
| Phono stages belong to which tier? AceboympkI was going through a similar search and finally pulled the trigger and bought a Pass XOno. Many say it's over analytical and cold I haven't found this to be true. When the impedance was set correctly for my cartridge the sound became ful... | |
| Cartridge loading for Pass Labs Xono I'm using a Koetsu Urushi Black, 0.4V output. The gain is set to lowest level and the loading is "now" set to the Koetsu recommended 30 ohms (listed on Elusive Disc specifications). When I dropped, after reading Peterayer's post here, from 71.35oh... | |
| New TT-- new problem Go to Vinyl Engine and download The AccuTrack Universal Protractor it's a good starting place. | |
| What is more important source or preamp? I've always bought the best pre-amp I could afford first so I could evaluate any upgrades, when it finally gets exposed as the "weak link" I upgrade it and start over again. While working on improving the source/sources it's helpful to have a fami... | |
| What's a good power cord for conrad-johnson CT5? I landed up running the stock cord from an Act 2 into a Exact Power EP15A everything else thinned out the sound when playing digital, as the sound stage expanded the sound became more hi-fi'ish IMO. | |
| Help. Wife says Teres 340 Is too bright. Couldn't let the last post just sit there!!!! It seems you have a great wife with good ears, your very fortunate. My wife has good ears but doesn't listen with me much except when I ask for an opinion. On the other hand she really likes the looks ... |