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| Acoustic/Classical guitar. Who is your favorite? Martin Taylor.Wes Montgomery.Ali Farka Toure.John Williams. | |
| Phonostage for Jan Allaerts MC 2 Finish Gold. I had Steve at GNS modify the loading of my ARC Ref Phono2 for this cartridge and it works beautifully. | |
| Dee Dee Bridgewater - To Billie With Love Great singer with a lot of albums released. Though I do think that some of her material was not best chosen for her.As Ray Charles said of her, "Their will only ever be one Dee Dee". | |
| Holfi Battriaa better than Levinson No 25 S ?? IMO; It would not be difficult to find a SS phono stage which betters the 25S. I always thought that it sucked the life out of the music, and that was after persevering with it for several years and the dealer telling me it would get better with m... | |
| What phono preamps are balanced I own both an ARC Ref 2 Phono stage and a Clearaudio Balanced Reference. I feel that the Clearaudio has been 'voiced' for use with their cartridges, which suits me fine, as I have both a Titanium and an Insider Reference. Plus it can be used witho... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? Itll count the bars and tell you when The basset-horns coming in again Itll see you right while youre trading twelves With a synthesizer played by elves Wear this watch and youll keep in step With Ornette Coleman and Archie Shepp Why be a lon... | |
| What phono preamps are balanced Tdaudio wrote, "ARC Ref 2 is fully balanced input to output it just has RCA connectors for the input since that is what most people will have. I bet one could special order XLRs for one or both inputs. Either way, electrically, the positive and ne... | |
| ARC Ref phono 2 vs ASR Basis Excl 2010 Some of us are also the type of audiophiles for whom the pleasure remains long after the price and warranty has been forgotten. | |
| Air Bladders Chayro, I do. Had some friends around a couple of days ago, they and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to every Coleman Hawkins record that I own, from some 1950's EP's to 'The Hawk Relaxes' onto the 'Hawk Flies High' on the latest heavyweight 45 rpm... | |
| ARC Ref phono 2 vs ASR Basis Excl 2010 Apart from collecting records, I love modifying or having modified every piece of gear that I own. Nothing is wrong with the standard ARC Ref 2 Phono, just that I think it can be improved upon, in my opinion. | |
| Air Bladders Assuming you mean on VPI T/T suspension?Very Soft: Too much Bass.Very Hard: No depth and a few problems with vibration transmission through stylus to the arm.Middle: Just right.My advice: Stick with paddle balls. | |
| ARC Ref phono 2 vs ASR Basis Excl 2010 Like an unmodified ARC REF 2 phono :) | |
| ARC Ref phono 2 vs ASR Basis Excl 2010 Hi Stickman, what Mike Fremer said back in January on 'Gon was, "I have only heard the Ref 2 at CES this past week. I found the bottom end a bit fat and out of control, which is what I found on the PH7 too. I know because we brought the admittedly... | |
| Cartridge upgrade, something warmer Some good advice posted on here. To which can I add; try to find an original ARC Ref phono for its warm, tubey sounds and cartridge wise add a Koetsu Rosewood to your collection. | |
| ARC Ref phono 2 vs ASR Basis Excl 2010 Stickman, agree not cheap, especially when I add shipping to & fro across the pond to GNS. But hey, to me performances sounded better than the Ypsilon VPS 100 Phono stage that I tried recently and cost less. |