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| What preamp between Burmester and Krell? What are you amp and speakers? | |
| Vandersteen 5A or Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage Excellent choice!!! | |
| Is a tube phono better than ss? I have been back and forth on owning tube or solid state phono preamps for aseverla years now and conclude that my personal tastes indicate that I much prefer a tubed phono pre over a solid state version. Smooth, grain free and midrange sweetness ... | |
| MOG to shut down, replaced by Beats Music Wow, and I just cancelled my Pandora account in order to start using MOG instead. So, yet again, another "once happy" customer is now disappointed.Must have been a licensing issue. | |
| Rush fans on the board ?? Oh c'mon, really. They are making and playing some of their most accomplished music ever these days. PW, while a fine classic Rush album, is not the end all, be all record they ever made. | |
| Manley Steelhead V2 as pre-amp I use it with my DAC and cdp via a Skipjack and it is a fine sounding a transparent preamp. Of course with either TT one MM and MC it is the cat's whiskers. | |
| EAR 834 standard vs Deluxe My understanding was that some of the components' quality of the Deluxe version was a bit higher grade. | |
| Lp labels that are cool, nostalgic? I always liked the original two-tone Atco label that I had on Disraeli Gears and Wheels of Fire, it looked so cool going round on the table. Why they changed to the all yellow version around 1970 I do not know. Maybe Ahmet Erdogan thought they wer... | |
| Turntable upgrade, tweaks, or stay put? I had an MM7 and once I changed out the stock Goldring for a Lyra Delos, this TT came alive. The MM7 is good enough that it will respond to and take advantage of an upgrade of cartridge. Recently, I bought an Ortofon 2M Black MM cart and this is a... | |
| Solving the THIEL CS 5i's - vs- CS 7.2 Debate The CS6s were reported to be Jim's favorite speakers I can hear why. I have owned a pair now for ten years, and reluctantly have to offer them for sale due to a downsize. They are dynamic, smooth and extended, but beyond that, they conveyed all th... | |
| Anti-Cables speaker cable impressions: Mapleshade single or double Helix, I have both. After ownning and demoing most of the major manufactureres over the years, including Audioquest, Tara Labs, Harmonic Technologies and others, Mapleshade has all the coherence and detail I could ever ... | |
| Vandersteen 5A or Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage Apples to oranges: The 5As are time and phase coherent with a bass response to 20Hz. The Sonus Fabers are neither of these. For me, the choice of Vandersteen over Sonus Faber would be easy. | |
| Amp suggestions If you have balanced outputs from your preamp my Krell FPB 400 cx is for sale at less than your price range. Superb amp. | |
| Rega Planar P25 question RB600 was the stock tonearm that came with the P25. | |
| Phono Cartridge advice Either cartridge would seem to be a good choice; having said that I have no experience with the Dynavector but I do own the Ortofon Black and, after a listening session last night with audiobuds, and with that cartridge finally fully broken in, th... |