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| Amplifier Experience Gryphon Pass Lamm BAT Since you are in Europe, you should give Einstein pre a listen. It's tube, super dynamic and resolving, and has a touch of tube sweetness. I would pick Einstein over MBL or Burmester because Einstein is tube.I use Einstein with BAT 150SE, the matc... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Bravo Phil! What a well written post. | |
| Tidal Contriva Diacera or Aerial 20T V2 My view is opposite to Azjake. As good as Tidal is, ceramic drivers in general do sound much leaner and drier which translates to more hi-fi sound. Tidal does a good job in integrating fine drives with good crossover, but you can't remove the driv... | |
| Sonus Faber Concertino Domus vs. AE 1 classic I had AE1 Signature before, Concertino Domus for a brief period. I am a big SF fan, but Concertino Domus was a big disappointment for me. On the other hand, AE1 Signature was one of the best small monitor I ever owned, it was sweet, detail, airy, ... | |
| BAT VK-52SE VS Audio Research Ref 3 If your system is very revealing and transparent, you might hear the famous "whitish" top end often mentioned with Ref-3/5 so do proceed with caution if you decided to go for Ref 3. I certainly have heard it in my system and others and I am not al... | |
| Best 3 tube preamps under $18000? Einstein and Atma Sphere MP1. | |
| Nottingham service & arm setup Motnic, thanks for the pointer. My arm is the older Anna and that will explain why the headshell will not turn.I haven't had a chance to play with more anti-skate yet, I think I can center the image a little more with anti-skate but not sure if I ... | |
| Can Mac/PC compete with High End CDT?? "I doubt you would hear any difference with different computer based music servers serving up files to a network player"Very well said, Mapman! | |
| Nottingham service & arm setup Nottingham claimed their unipivot did not have the usual drawback of other unipivot and does not wobble, however they did not mention how to adjust azimuth.Even with slightly off-centered image, it's sounding very sweet AND dynamic. | |
| Nottingham service & arm setup If it is friction fit, it's got to be very tight because I could not rotate it w/o using too much force. Adjusting azimuth will be difficult if that's my only option. | |
| Lemo phono connector are you referring to female Lemo and male XLR, bypassing the junction box?I had the same idea, search all over the place and could not find any dealer selling the female Lemo connector to build phono wire straight to the RCA connectors. | |
| Experience with rewiring SME arm? I will be interested in the info as well.Rega is a very popular rewire candidate, SME also makes lower end arms like 309 which should be a good candidate for rewiring. If SME IV or V can benefit from a better internal wire and get rid off DIN to R... | |
| High end tube Preamp under $4k used that competes A shameless plug, I have one for sale right now.Sonic Frontiers Line 3 SE+I have compared it to many (email me), it came out on top. Replaced by an Einstein, 3X the price and 10% better. | |
| Any Thoughts on the Sonic Frontiers power 1? Jtinn, the importer of many fine audio gears, also like SF Power 2/3 over ARC VT-100/200 of the same era. SF gear is more transparent and extended, they are not too romantic sounding with stock tubes when compared to other usual suspects like ARC,... | |
| Any Thoughts on the Sonic Frontiers power 1? Shakey's experience is similar to mine EXCEPT with other tube amps, I thought SF Power 2/3 were too neutral overall and took me a while to "warm up" to them. but once did, I could not listen to most tube amps where were too colored.Power 1, if sim... |