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| Turntables: $10 - 12K -Suggestions Simon Yorke S7. I have not heard any turntable that enlarges the intelligence of the listener more than this one. | |
| Jan Allaerts cartridges Only a handful of phono preamps (the Progressive Audio Phono 1 when carefully set up, the Jeff Rowland, a few others) can successfully cope with the Allaerts cartridges. Be careful when purchasing these cartridges to be sure that you have an adequ... | |
| Best ever made & sounding CD transport ? Audiomeca just released a "state of the art" CD transport called "Mephisto II" (a thoroughgoing redesign of the old Mephisto). It features a very large clamping mechanism for the CD (the largest and stablest I have seen) with a modified Sanyo lens... | |
| Best ever made & sounding CD transport ? Audiomeca just released a "state of the art" CD transport called "Mephisto II" (a thoroughgoing redesign of the old Mephisto). It features a very large clamping mechanism for the CD (the largest and stablest I have seen) with a modified Sanyo lens... | |
| Best Budget HDCD D/A Converter? The Parasound 1600 HDCD DAC that Sfar mentioned is excellent value, although the CEC DX51 (which does not have HDCD, however) is better quality electronics and sound and should start appearing on the second-hand at discount market since CEC just r... | |
| Upsampling DACS: Take the Pepsi Challenge Carl, in your opinion, what DACs have well-designed analog circuitry? | |
| Is SACD really this lousy? Perhaps a way of putting it is that the SCD 1 makes good digital "conversions" but wretched analog "signals." It's impossible for it to grasp the movement of the SACD format without letting some of the sound escape. | |
| Speakers: all-time worst --Master: "The speakers of a GOOD STEREO are yoked together and in step." --Disciple: "Yes, Master. But what are the speakers of a BAD STEREO like?" --Master: "In the sound of a BAD ONE the sonics seem to veer this way and that as the speakers kee... | |
| BEST HEAVY METAL BAND Last Christmas I was visiting a friend--amazingly, he is head of personnel of a hi-profile consultancy agency in Boston--who is obsessed by "black metal." Eventually, the ceremonical exchange of CDs ("give the gift of music") took place. I gave hi... | |
| Small Speakers w/ Full Range Sound If you can find them where you live, Isophon Fuego's have the best bass extension of any bookshelf speakers I have heard. They are one of the few bookshelf speakers that do not need a subwoofer in addition. They also look gorgeous. I do not know h... | |
| Rega modification Thank you Abc. Your reference to the hotrod phono page was very useful and to-the-point. It made me aware of yet another possibility for wiring the cartridge to the phono preamp--namely, OUTSIDE the tonearm. I also like the advice the author gives... | |
| Best solid-state amp made anywhere Here are two manufactuers from two different European countries that make excellent solid-state amplifiers: --Germany: Lindemann (check out the website, and affordable!) --France: Lavardin (again, check out their website which has a nice descripti... | |
| NBS Classic -vs- NBS Monitor? Snowok's description of his Monitor IV balanced interconnects ("great bottom end and treble extension"--My God! Art Blakey's ride cymbals on an NBS!) sounds like a description of the King Serpent II interconnects I have in my second system (the Mo... | |
| Is SACD really this lousy? I attended the Sony SCD 1 exhibit at the last High End 2000 trade fair in Frankfurt. I also attended the Audio Note exhibit where they auditioned a DAC 5 Signature with all-out tube output stages and no brick-wall digital filter. Even at 44.1/16bi... | |
| Rega modification My phono preamp is the Lehmann Audio "Black Cube." The Rega RB 300 arm is mounted onto a Thorens TD 3001 BC suspended turntable. The cartridge is a medium low-output MC (the Goldring Eroica LX with output at O.5 mV at 100 Ohm). Because of the low ... |