sandthemall
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| I miss my Loudness Button and Tone Controls.... I once had the NAD 162 preamp also. These are pretty good preamps. It didn't have a loudness button but had very good tone controls that operated at the frequency extremes so were not heavy-handed at all...subtle yet effective. Anyway, I've found... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Bullit Soundtrack / Lalo Schifrin Sounds AMAZING! And I have never seen a more perfect looking record surface. Not a wave of distortion: a perfect black mirror disc. And apparently rare: #737/1000. Just happened to find a new one at the record s... | |
| Schiit Freya + Class A in Stereophile I remember a Freya thread where a Freya owner also bought a Don Dachs Model 2 preamp and admitted that it was, in fact, a better preamp. He got a lot of grief for that... even though he praised the Freya’s performance. The most outspoken criticism... | |
| Speaker positioning: why do audiophiles neglect this so much? I tried the ’nothing between the speakers trick’ and it works. I mean, it really does amazing things. I can’t do that in my current home. But I know what I’m missing out on. But I try little things...every few weeks to get a little closer to what... | |
| Does carpet deaden the sound too much? If you’re going to err on one side or the other...to me...over-damping is preferred. At least you’ll have some coherence. In almost all cases, carpet is good to have. Only time it’s not...is if the room is overly damped...which in most cases is n... | |
| Amir and Blind Testing Measurements are great. HOWEVER... We measure what we think to measure. There are so many things going on that we don't have a measurement for. Yet some will put way too much weight on measurements. We need both. But I weight my senses as the f... | |
| Turntable - The Next Step I don’t think you need to spend $6k to get to a much better place. It’s possible you can spend double that and end up with terribly mismatched components. I think you can do it for less than $4k. But, yes, spending $6k+ can make it less challengi... | |
| Turntable - The Next Step If you’re gun-shy about MC cartridges, it may be because you’ve operated one with a wall wart. I did this with a Project Phono Box RS and it was terribly noisy. I bought an LPS for it and this did help overall quietness with MM cartridges but I st... | |
| Turntable - The Next Step How about: 1) Hagerman Trumpet MC phono stage 2) AT33PTGII cartridge 3) Technics 1200GR I have the above with the only difference being a Technics 1200G. This is a great combo...goosebumps on great recordings. Please don't listen to the non... | |
| Frequency Response My last speakers were Salk Songtowers. In this room bass was good...really good. For me, no need for subs. They were fine...let’s just say...I worried about other things than if subs were needed. But my last house. Holy smokes! The mid bass wa... | |
| Most beautiful turntable under $5k I remember wanting to get a 'statement piece' for my final turntable...but I had such a great ownership experience with my original Technics 1200mk2 that I decided to double down and get a 1200G. It's more beautiful and sophisticated in person t... | |
| Paul Klipsch was right - What the world needs is a good 5 watt amplifier My old 6 ohm salk songtowers were 88db and also dipped momentarily into 3ohm territory. A Primaluna Dialogue Premium @ 35w was way more power than I needed. Never ever got into trouble driving those speakers hard. Truth is 88db is not so tough to... | |
| Speakers with a slightly warm midrange Salk Sound | |
| Please settle a bet! Guess what I found under my Tannoys? A pair of Bose 901s! I guess they completely stomped them... That was a terrible comment. I take it all back...I got no horse in this race... | |
| I need help regarding tube phono preamplifiers I have struggled with noisy phono preamps when it comes to MC carts. I recently purchased a Hagerman Trumpet MC. It is outstanding for a little bit over $1000 ($1090 I think). Can’t afford or find a Heron VTPH-2A? The Hagerman, I’m hearing, can ... |