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| Those of you having experience with Manley Shrimp First, power up preamp, then power amp/amps. When shutting down, do the opposite; shut down power amp first, then pre. As for amps, knowing what speakers they'll be used with might help w/good recommendations. Personally, I've always liked Pass La... | |
| Best Albums of 2008 on Vinyl Which of all the great musical recommendations above have demonstration quality LP sonics to go along with the great performances? I love much of this music, and would like to add Vampire Weekend to the list(for the music only), but sonically, hav... | |
| Audio Desk Vinyl Cleaning System If you want quiet, get a Loricraft. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Zu Presence vs. Devore Nines Agree that you should listen if possible, especially since these speakers are both more idiosyncratic than many other speakers. From my experience, Zus excel at dynamic contrasts, & quick transient changes. I agree w/comment that they present ... | |
| How to eliminate FM RF coming thru turntable? Are you using a tube or solid state phono stage? I had similar problem and after trying many great tube phono stages, eliminated the trouble only by switching to ss phono stage. Cheers,Spencer | |
| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? I beg to differ with the last couple of responses. If you'd really like to get the best sound possible from your setup, you really need to make an attempt to gain a solid understanding of how your gear, room acoustics, speaker placement and seatin... | |
| Air Tight ATM-2 vs CAT JL2 with Avalon speakers You probably need more power. I'd be careful if you can't audition together. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Assessing room response One thing to note is that the Radio Shack meter has well documented errors at lower frequencies, and most of the test tones don't account for that. So, you can print a chart of numerical adjustments that take into account the errors and let you ad... | |
| Looking for tabletop ideas for VPI 16.5RCM Get Walker Audio Prelude Quartet. You won't need to scrub, you won't need to steam. You won't need a bigger area or stand to scrub. Your regimen will be faster than ever and your records will be cleaner than ever. More importantly, they will sound... | |
| Best Phono Stage within 2000 $ The used Klyne 7 just listed is a rare steal. A used Vendetta if you can find one was what I hunted for and eventually found. In the ss camp, these are IMO far ahead of the others mentioned. In the tube camp, phono stages need a relatively RFI-fre... | |
| Walker Vortex Vacuum Wand for VPI Chad,Not so sure that the food coloring would prove anything. I'm no chemist, but since food coloring is made to adhere color to other things(e.g. cookies), it seems like that happening in your experiment just would show that food coloring does in... | |
| Amp for Amati Homage?? They use Bernings at SF's HQ. The new monoblocks are probably pretty awesome. Cheers,Spencer | |
| iPod Commercial/Reading Music The song you are probably referring to is "Bruises" by Chairlift, featured on the new Nano spots, which are getting heavy exposure. There have been plenty others including Feist, but that was on the "Fatboy" squarish ipod that hasn't been sold for... | |
| Solid State Preamp recommendation for $2500? The Dehavilland and the Herron are both great, and should be dead quiet. The Herron is as quiet as most ss preamps. I'm glad to see you are doing better now w/the Ultraverve, but it still seems strange that you have been having a problem with any ... | |
| Aerial Acoustics 8B VS Von Schweikert VR-4 jr They sound pretty different. Audition if possible. "Better or not?" is a silly question. Cheers,Spencer |