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| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? BTW, if doing testing be wary of relying on the mic built into your phone, as they are focused on picking up midrange and won't pick up low frequency with any accuracy. Any simple test tone cd and a decent mic will have you on your way to measure ... | |
| Rogue audio amp thoughts Mark and the Rogue team are really high integrity dudes in it for all the right reasons. They will give you advice like a friend and offer good value. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Turntables @luvrockin , Your new cartridge is certainly going to new some break-in time, probably about 50 hours before it's at its best. After 10-20 hours it should start to improve. Remember it's got a moving suspension and needs to loosen up. So don't pan... | |
| Turntables @sns Start a thread about your new setup when you get it. I had great success w/ SP10mkII. One concern, is the compliance match a good fit between the 103R and the Jelco? I've heard widely varying results for the cart depending on the arm. One sug... | |
| Recommendation for DAC needed. @jburidan Ever compare the Hugo or DirectStream to the Gumby multibit or the Yggy? I did a side-by-side of Hugo vs. Gumby in my system and decided to buy the Gumby. I have a friend who owns both the PS and the Yggy; he prefers and uses the Yggy th... | |
| Nottingham Spacedeck vs Rega Planar 8 vs Technics SL1200G If you ever needed parts is Nottingham in business with their owner/ designer now passed? When I owned a Spacedeck I had trouble with the very fine tonearm wiring on the Spacearm. Most of the local dealers were afraid to touch it to rewire, even O... | |
| Music Rendering & Management Programs - Your Opinions Please I tried them all & like Audirvana+ the best soundwise. Jriver has nicest interface/experience. However, I can't say my Audirvana experience was a great one. Plenty of bugs with library files ( some of which are "hidden files" on Mac. Drama, s... | |
| VPI Classic 3 or SME 20/2 Not sure if this will help, but my local audio club of 80 members had more owners of VPI tables than any other brand, everything from original Scout to HRX. About 2 years ago, about 6 or 7 of 15-20 all sold their VPIs and went in varying direction... | |
| How good is the Technics 1200 Mk2 with all the KAb upgrades? @chakster Great deal there! Doubt too many of those pop up at that price. I paid $3k for my SP10mk2, but that was fully recapped / restored and included terrific EPA250 tone and a cheap Technics cart. A sizeable budget gap vs. the KAB even with ma... | |
| Relative component value to overall SQ. @elizabeth On the role of room acoustics as related to this topic, I would encourage @N80 and others that for a beginner it doesn't have to be complex and in some ways, you don't even "need to know what to listen for".Most beginners choose dynamic... | |
| Turntables @luvrockin Here's a modded 1200 that is a great step towards 1200g performance well fitting your budget. Read theartofsound Techiepedia for many enthusiastic comments about why this would make lots of sense for you both now and as you can invest a... | |
| Who is next?? In the intended sense of the question, Mike Moffat is the first that comes to mind. He's bringing the next generation of listeners into the world of good reproduction.If you want to broaden the question to overall impact on listeners, I'd consider... | |
| VPI Classic 3 or SME 20/2 Following @testpilot 's logic, if you ever decided to go back, there will always be a bunch of VPIs available used, including models where the motor is decoupled, which I've found to be a decent improvement over the alternative. Cheers,Spencer | |
| How to pre clean a very dirty LP before Ultrasound Machine? Question for the chemistry crowd out there. Regarding enzyme cleaners, I have read that they have a very short life span(i.e. ~24 hours). That's why Walker Audio's enzyme is a powder that gets mixed with fluid to activate it for each cleaning sess... | |
| An audiophilic music lovers Christmas! My wife bought me the Tom Petty - An American Treasure 6LP box set after I begged for it. I also got the Applewood Road LP which is a great record with great sound; been wanting that one for a while. With a gift cert for a local store I will be he... |