sandthemall
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| The two stages of audiophilia Two stages?1) spend as much as you can building the system of your dreams.2) read about how to get great sound out of your system and room.3) ...but completely ignore everything you’ve read about how important the room is.4) thinking that all that... | |
| Tannoy Speakers without grills... So Upscale delivered. I’m already listening to the new replacements.I checked the quality certificate and the missing grille/cabinet inspection box is signed. The grilles are included. There is not a flaw on these Turnberry GRs. Sure it was a hass... | |
| Why so many tubes? @ghasley Yeah, you gearheads are too deep in the weeds on this.The point...the general point...is that you can run a bunch of small tubes softly (small piston v-12 jaguar) vs fewer big tubes (big block American V8) run really hard. " Depends on th... | |
| Amplifier upgrade The Luxman will definitely be a step up. And if you change your mind down the road...you will get most of your money back. The others do not have that kind of brand power. So you can’t go wrong.Point to point vs pcb arguments aside, just look at t... | |
| Why so many tubes? @musicfan 2349,No it’s a totally valid comparison. You can take 12 el34s and run them conservatively or you can take 8 kt150s and run them hard in dual mono set up.A V12 top fuel drag car (if they existed) will walk away from the V8 top fuel drag ... | |
| Tannoy Speakers without grills... Any Tannoy owners here?If so, on your Quality Certificate, is the ‘cabinet and grille inspection’ section signed?Would be good to get a confirmation so that come Monday, I can make my case to Upscale Audio. I can’t seem to find any images of this ... | |
| Tannoy Speakers without grills... I picked them up myself. Luckily Upscale Audio is a 40 minutes drive from my house.My experience of Upscale Audio has been very good.Sorry to hear about your experience. | |
| Tannoy Speakers without grills... That's great advice.However there are other considerations:I found a few blemishes. All are on the top of the cabinet...all are on the corners. Which makes sense if you consider this speaker made its long journey from Scotland to Upscale entirely ... | |
| Tannoy Speakers without grills... @chorus,I guess I need to "unbuy them"... | |
| Tannoy Speakers without grills... Yeah, definitely returning them. And yes, they look great without the grills. | |
| Sugden/Allnic or Luxman L-509X? I think you are correct about your rig being mid-fi. My rig is certainly not hi-end by any measure either...but definitely hi-fi. Digital is difficult to screw up...so 9 times outta 10, it's going to sound great off the bat. But analogue (LP) nee... | |
| Turntable versus tonearm versus cartridge: which is MOST important? @ mijostynExcellent point! | |
| Turntable versus tonearm versus cartridge: which is MOST important? This makes more sense:Take the $500 for the cartridge/turntable and order a nice bottle of wine.Then take the $10k and buy a $4k turntable, a $4k tonearm and a $2k cartridge.I didn't say it was the right answer...just that it made more sense. | |
| Help wanted spending money and improving my system. All good stuff but nothing stellar and maybe this is why you have the upgrade itch. Maybe also integrate and simplify. Maybe get a really good preamp with a stepped attenuator. The Primaluna, while being a decent preamp, has a Alps attenuator. Whi... | |
| Power Down Sequence for Amp / TT to Avoid Speaker Pop I use 2 different techniques: 1)Change the input selector in my preamp2)Use the mute switch on my phono preampIt keeps the switches in good operating order. I also have a Technics tt...which stops the platter in an instant with a brake (torque tha... |