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Responses from stringreen
| Portable Player Recommendation I have a 400 dollar Sony Walkman with top Grado in ear phones. It sounds stupendous......maybe better than my super hi end components | |
| Buying used vs new speakers from a technology perspective I remember going to someone's house who demonstrated an Electrovoice 12 TRX speaker installed in his home built bass reflex box.......great sound. | |
| Warning for Revel lovers I have a Porsche with the extra coinage Burmeister sound system that sucks as well. | |
| Headphone amp? Do you people listen to your equipment or to music?? | |
| Speakers with a slightly warm midrange Vandersteen.....pick your price | |
| Power Conditioning on the Cheap Im with the farmer......if you get a conditioner be sure you can return it. | |
| VPI Fatboys versus others in its' tonearm weight class. My VPI is mounted on the base with screws .....there is no cutout. In all the arms I've worked with there was a cutout in the table to acomodate it. Another arm would require you or someone else to cut it out. | |
| VPI Fatboys versus others in its' tonearm weight class. Gimbal, 2nd pivot, pointed.....they sound different from each other but not by much. Harry himself said that the 2nd pivot addition is between the sound of the others. That's what I did | |
| Hana Umami Red or Lyra Kleos? I'm using an Ortofon Winfield cartridge with my VPI . I installed the 2nd pivot on the 10.5 which was an improvement....not a night and day, but certainly worthwhile. I heard the bearing VPI which to me was not an improvement, but a lateral mo... | |
| Bi-amping Biwire...good. Beamping.... no good | |
| 50 hours on Monitor Gold 200's enough? listen to music rather than your speakers. You're not evaluating you're enjoying. | |
| Question about Rotel RA-1520 pre out my guess is the preout means preamp out which should be plugged into a power amp. I don't know the headphones you use, but in my experience, you need to put lots more money into your system to get the same experience as you get from the earphones... | |
| Question about Bi-Wiring no | |
| McIntosh -- good for show, not for sound, says dealer I remember in the old days, Mac reps would come to local events to test their Mac equipment and compare the results to any who would bring their equipment in to compete. My Citation amp and power amp had much better numbers by far than Macs. ...... | |
| Power Conditioners after you get one to try,.....a week later, remove it and listen. I dumped lots of them after hearing that the best one is none. |