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| Which cartridge is the Imaging/soundstaging champ Shelter 501II, Zyx Airy2, and Sumiko Celebration should all be on your list. The Shelter is a good sounding match with your arm/table. I've heard the combo many times, and it clearly outperformed a Dynavector Karat 17D2 on the same table. Cheers,S... | |
| Shelter 501 II owners: how long is the break-in? 100-150 hours. Cheers,Spencer | |
| What is an Audiophile? Someone who is willing to endure the ridicule of his family & "normal" friends for hearing the improvements caused by :- raquetballs under CD players- metal spikes under speakers, - lifting cables off the carpet- cleaning stylus with Magic Era... | |
| Will Merlins be too much The TSMs sound great in rooms of your size. I've heard current production TSMs sound excellent with moderately priced solid state gear. Haven't heard your Nak. components, but if it isn't a good match, you can get good compatible amp for less than... | |
| Goin nuts deciding which Scout upgrade Ray,I think you'll be really happy with the arm upgrade. As another who has spent far too much time ;-) hanging out w/both Slipknot1 & Rushton, it was really interesting to hear the transformation as Slipknot made his upgrades. To my ears, the... | |
| Tube OTL amp for VAndy 5 Hi Michael,I heard the Vandy 5A with Joules, Elrod cable, & VPI Scoutmaster at the 2005 CES. It was by far the best I've ever heard any Vandersteens. However, IMHO it doesn't touch the sound of the Joules driving the latest Merlins, as in the ... | |
| please help with tube amp thks We need to know what speakers you'll be using. Any 300B-based amp will need a pretty friendly speaker for it to be a pleasing combination. The RM10 comes from a renowned designer, and might be better with more speakers. However, it squeezes 35w ou... | |
| Turn, turn, turning the table, REDPOINT that is. SEarch threads on Galibier and Teres and you will find more history on Redpoint. Their table in the Dehavilland room at CES sounded pretty sweet. Cheers,Spencer | |
| My Best of CES Bluebull,In the Aesthetix room, I heard the Rhea phonostage, Clearaudio megabucks table, Vivid speakers(not sure which model) and the amps were new ones from Aesthetix, I believe. I've never been a fan of the Clearaudio turntables, and haven't hea... | |
| My Best of CES Trelja,David is correct. It is the ARS Sonum. From what I've heard, it is a killer piece in its price range, it uses a EL34L special version of the EL34, proprietary transformers and silver-in-oil caps. Looks beautiful. Bobby said that they are se... | |
| Walker Audio Extreme SST Well folks, another happy ESST user chiming in here. I've applied it throughout my system from cartridge pins to tube pins, A/C plugs and cabling. A very noticeable improvement for me. Should have tried this one long ago. It creates a blacker back... | |
| upgrde to maggie 3.6 or i.6 with better amplifier You can do both. It will cost you about $2500 to upgrade to 3.6s, and about $1000 to sell the DNA1 and get a BATVK500. $1500 can be put towards upgrading the turntable combo and/or preamp. Of course all this is going w/used gear via Audiogon. An o... | |
| What are these on the speaker They look like Mapleshade products. I would recommend Walker Valid Points from walkeraudio instead. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Best power amp below US $ 20.000,00 ?? The best I've ever heard Eidolons is with Rushton's Atma-Sphere MA-2 MkIIIs. Perhaps an older iteration of the MA-2s would be in your price range? They'd be a great choice in the sense that if you like the sound of a SET, good chance you will appr... | |
| Where do you buy "NEW/Current" LPs? Bryan,James mentioned 2 of the biggest sources above, the other one is Acoustic Sounds. Since you mention blues, I strongly recommend that you check them out. They champion blues recordings in very high fidelity, and also do the best sounding jazz... |