sibelius
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| Best high-efficiency speaker under 10K I'm suprised more people don't try open baffle designs when looking at HE speakers. A good open baffle speaker can provide a large soundstage similar to planars while also being tube amp friendly. You remove the coloration of having an enclosure a... | |
| Add Bob Devices CineMag SUT to EAR834P Deluxe I own both a EAR834P (standard model modified with upgraded parts) and a Cinemag based SUT. I don't currently own a Shelter but have used both products with a Koetsu RSP and Benz Ebony. I prefer the EAR over the Cinemag in my system. Unless the Ci... | |
| SUT shootout All - points well taken. Now that I've brushed myself off from the pumelling :) I want to at least mention that none of the SUT implementations were done by me. Just for the record:The Cinemag and both Hashimoto SUT's are finished products purchas... | |
| SUT shootout Dougdeacon:I agree with you 100%. Post was not meant to be authoratative. I needed a SUT and had the opportunity to test drive a bunch in my system. I had a blast doing it so I thought I'd share my subjective opinions with the board. That's it. I ... | |
| SUT shootout Dertonarm: The whole purpose of the "shootout" was to determine what SUT worked best in my system. I never implied otherwise. However, I think the post may be of some help to those folks who may have similar equipment. | |
| SUT shootout Gadfly: The Cinemag has nothing to be ashamed of. My second system pairs the Cinemag SUT with a Denon 103R cartridge and the music flows wonderfully. The Cinemag may not catch all the micro details as well as some of the more expensive SUT's but o... | |
| SUT shootout Stringreen: I prefer the Koetsu to the Benz. I love the tone of the RSP. Some may think the Koetsu's as overly "colored" but it hits the right emotional chord for me. I also find that the Platinum Koetsu's do a more than adequate job on the low an... | |
| Tonearm wire selection When I got my SME312S tonearm it came with Vandenhul wire. I thought there was something wrong with the SME until my dealer strongly recommended I swap out the Vandenhul with a Graham IC-70. Huge difference (This coming from someone who is extreme... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I stand corrected in my Morrison ELAD comments. Thanks for the clarification Georgelofi.I agree with Pubul57 that for many the straight wire with gain approach is as much a philosophical stand as anything else. I was once one of those folks. Then ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? For those of you who have been around the boards a long time, this looks very much to me like a much hyped passive preamp of old called the Morrison ELAD. I remember the buzz - the ELAD was the closest to "straight wire with gain" that you could g... | |
| Who makes a GM-70 based SET? Has anyone here listened to any of the GM-70 amps from SAC Thailand? They sure look interesting and the price is right. I'm guessing support may be an issue but it sure is tempting. | |
| What Step-up transformers are best value? If you want a great value check out choiraudio dot com. They have a Cinemag based SUT for $349. It's in a nice enclosure with star grounding. Unless you build one yourself I have not seen a finished Cinemag based SUT at this price.The usual discla... | |
| Shindo amps vs. preamps I spent some time with Matt at Pitchperfect audio last weekend (San Francisco Shindo dealer). His recommendation is to get the best Shindo Preamp that you could afford and then whatever amp matches up best with your speakers. I went in looking at ... | |
| Blue Note reissues For the Music Matters Blue Note web site go to musicmattersjazzThe website lists where you can purchase them. | |
| Blue Note reissues Yet another recommendation for the Music Matters Blue Note Series from a very happy subscriber. Uniformly excellent sonics with first class packaging produced by people who clearly love what they are doing. Several of these are already out of prin... |