speakermaster
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| If you don't have a wide sweet spot, are you really an audiophile? Your most exacting speakers are going to be for a small sweet spot when you try to optimize for a large area something always gets lost in the translation for sure. The lost focus and diffuse sound rob dynamics, focus, and tonality. | |
| Coupling/Decoupling Electronics All electronics produce vibration as well as speakers and there are a lot of schools about how to isolate decouple them from their environment but i can say that if you put your gear on a heavy all wood rack you can naturally let the resonances di... | |
| Phono Stage, How much do I need to spend, New or used. I think that you could buy a phono stage in the 1000-1500 dollar range that would bring out that vinyl magic the schiit is the limiting factor lol. | |
| Is a separate phono preamp worthwhile? Separate phono stages are a big improvement to built in phono stages for the same reason as power amp and pre amp are superior to a receiver. | |
| The Absolute Sound vs Pleasing Sound The best sound i have achieved is going for the microphone feed sound when you achieve a sound like that you never go back to a pleasing or euphoric sound you just hear the recordings and music so much better. | |
| Technics 1200G phono recommendations The most important part of a phono stage is accuracy and quiet tube or solid state does not matter but if you use very efficient speakers you will want solid state to avoid noise in your table and i would try a more warm cartridge than an ortofon ... | |
| Some interesting stats from Discogs It has been growing for quite some time now and i know why there is no personal relationship with a collection of music on a computer, or streamer, or hard drive, or ipod, or mp3 player. It is just not fun like analog and vinyl is. | |
| Open House With Audio Components You should pack it away you do not want it messed with or i would not want my stuff messed with you never know who will want to touch or mess with it. | |
| Dahlquist speaker models, question/experience and today The sleeper dahlquist is the dq8 it is an amazing speaker for the money for a small to medium sized room with a solid state amplifier tubes do not light it up so do not even try. | |
| Brand new Technics SL-1210GR platter wobble ... disappointed! The wobble is due to the machining on the side of the platter but the speed is consistent it may be within tolerance but it does not look good or right quality control issue i am sure. | |
| Straight out of the box doesn't work. wobbling tubes do not sound good do the tubes have bent or damaged pins on the bottom of them check the wobbly ones first but check all of them and make sure they all go where they came out of do one at a time but tubes should not wobble at all my... | |
| Cart adjustment, that moment when you nail it! Analog is definitely finicky but when you get it all dialed in you just sit back and relax because that is when the magic happens. | |
| If your were to assemble a vintage system ? Go for a used rega table with a dynavector 10x5 into a vintage integrated amp like a harman kardon or a tandberg with a vintage american speaker made prior to 1979 by a big maker jbl, altec, electrovoice, or dahlquist. | |
| Worst Concerts You Have Attended ?? The worst shows that I have ever been at always involved bad sounding pa mixes that you just could not listen past like pretty much all of the shows I went to at the mark of the quad cities. | |
| Spendor D9.2 vs. Harbeth super hl5 plus xd + REL Stentor III vs. Spendor Classic 100? The spendor classic 100 would be the best choice of the three but if you can find a good used spendor s 100 you would absolutely love them they would be great for your space. The other thing i will mention is that the large spendor monitors need a... |