speakermaster
Responses from speakermaster
| Is my anti-skating too strong. All i can say is that your table needs further refining if you have the stylus moving during alignment and distortion on tracks from test albums but yes disengage anti skate for aligning and make sure the table is level when you align. | |
| Best integrated for my purposes - help me choose 1 of 3! Of the three the parasound would be the best but for straight i would go with a true vintage top notch integrated and you will get better sound and for less than three thousand dollars. | |
| LAMM M1.2 - Feedback - Advice - Please - anyone heard these? Go to an awesome pair of full range large size vintage american speakers made before 1979 and all your problems will be answered and you will better hear your gear choices. | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear Any quality album on command records you do not hear about them but they sound absolutely awesome try a tony mottola album or one of their percussion albums first to see if you like them but you will love the sound almost nothing ever recorded lik... | |
| If you hopped into your time machine and brought back audio gear- what would it be? Altec lansing a1x and the warehouse to play them in lol. | |
| Upgrading phono stage You should be able to find a great phono stage that out does the built in rogue stage for less than 1000 dollars but the rogue triton 2 is an excellent choice at 1400 dollars. | |
| Open Letter To REL, SVS, Hsu, etc., et al I use the stereophile test cd 2 to setup a system in the bass with an spl meter you can really dial in the position of a sub or speaker with the tones on it and also a spl meter with a and c weighting helps because you can blend the bass to the tr... | |
| What 50wpc or higher amps have a totally different sound from Pass Labs, in a good way? I know that the pass labs 250 watt amplifier is the one that they say is the workhorse of their line because it is the most load tolerant aka designed to drive anything. | |
| FTC may end amplifier rule! ACTION NEEDED I thought that it had already been done away with years ago because you do not see ul listed or ftc power ratings on anything anymore and most gear does not list impedance or power consumption anymore either and i can tell you that the power ratin... | |
| Is Luxman a poor man's D'Agostino ? Luxman is an amp that i would want to listen to d agostino is an amp that can take a hike. | |
| Why is there so much separation between the professional audio and audiophile worlds? The question is why because if you look back to the golden age there was no or very little separation between the two the best stuff was the best stuff period pro or home. | |
| Are your current amps and other gear the best you've ever had? Most definitely they are but we all have had some pieces that we should have not let go i am inclined to keep just about everything i buy now because there is always something you miss about a good component and all components work better than oth... | |
| Who else is using old cables/interconnects, and is happy? Some old cables especially silver ones are better with age also i can tell you that companies have changed how they make interconnects are wires over the years and top of the line then may be way better than top of the line now. | |
| What are all these metal cans/pods sitting on top of electronics? They are a tweak for vibration and resonance control in components. | |
| Need speaker advice I would go for a true high impedance vintage speaker with a twelve watt amplifier like an electro voice or an altec lansing you will not find many new ones that will be anywhere near efficient enough or that will sound like a good 16 ohm vintage m... |