strat1117
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| Totem Acoustic Forest Signatures Just poking around and happily stumbled on this great thread. I’ve had my black gloss Forest Signatures for about a year, and they are far and away the best balanced, most satisfying speakers I have owned in 40+ years in this hobby (including Wils... | |
| Lyra Kleos vs Koetsu Urushi I know I’m late to this particular party, but....All of these cartridges are hand made and, therefore, there will be some sample to sample variation. For example, I have an old Koetsu Black that sounds better than the several rosewood sigs and Uru... | |
| Spades or bananas connectors? Vandersteen used to provide only for bananas. Now, some of them at least, only allow for spades of a certain size. The only thing you don’t get is a choice. While theoretically there may be a difference, and logically spades appear to be a tighter... | |
| Speaker cables from same brand as interconnects? Happy to find this very old thread on exactly th point I was looking for, and even happier to find your conclusions support my observations. I have always bought into the primarily British idea of the cable loom, and throughout the last 30+ years,... | |
| Audioquest Earth interconnect review Just happened upon this old thread and I have to agree with theduke - if you are old enough to have owned an AR turntable, then AR will not register to you as Audio Research Corp. | |
| Current production EL34 tubes for vtl mb-125 Thanks for all the responses, gentlemen. I agree that the shuguang treasure/psvanes are great, but as I stated in my original post, I'm trying to avoid spending $100/tube. The JJs are certainly on my radar, but I wouldn't know how to choose betwee... | |
| Warm Sounding Preamp Suggestions Not familiar with the speakers, but in answer to your basic question, you can never go wrong with an audible illusions modulus 3 preamp. | |
| Amazing "tightening" of bass on cone speakers Thought I’d resurrect this worthwhile old thread. I have found this to be true on virtually every speaker I have owned. I disagree about doing it every two weeks as someone mentioned above, but once every 2 years is about right. I also don’t agree... | |
| Tightening Driver Screws Thought I’d resurrect this worthwhile old thread. I have found this to be true on virtually every speaker I have owned. I disagree about doing it every two weeks as someone mentioned above, but once every 2 years is about right. I also don’t agree... | |
| Totem Model 1 Signatures best speaker cables I am getting good results with MIT shotgun biwire speaker cable on my Model 1s, using VTL mb-125 tube amps. I do confess, though, that I prefer the amps in tetrode rather than triode with these speakers. I would also recommend Audioquest Gibraltar... | |
| Benz cartridge phase? I read the same thing over the weekend. It was mentioned in a review of the Glider which appeared in the November 2010 issue of HFNRR. I just sent an e-mail about this to Musical Surroundings, and I will let you know what their answer is.I will go... | |
| Proper loading for Benz Ruby 2 I'm getting great results using 470 ohms on my Ruby 2 into a Klyne SK-2A, going into the MM phono stage of an Audible Illusions M3A. My system is generally very "live" sounding (VTL amp, Wilson speakers), so I prefer the sound of most MC's loaded ... | |
| Sme arm "Bridge Removal" I have to agree with Rccc on this one. I tried it again and, to me, removing the bridge didn't change anything, except the looks of the arm. SME is not the kind of company that would continue to market a product for all of these years without reme... | |
| Sme arm "Bridge Removal" The bridge removal was recommended by Roy Gregory in one of the early issues of HiFi+, for all of the reasons mentioned above. I do not believe there was any mention of bearing tensioning, although he did mention that you need to be careful not to... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Timeltel -- Certainly, I agree with you. If my tonearm allowed for on the fly VTA adjustment I would probably do it for some if not all of my listening. Unfortunately, it does not, so I set VTA using a 180 gram LP, and I live with the compromise o... |