swanny76109
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| Lightning Get whole house surge protection installed at the main supply to the house. Mine is Eaton, there are other brands. My electrician installed it for around 300 bucks (he did some dedicated lines too and I can't remember the exact breakdown). I live ... | |
| Speakers that do pianos really well MBL 101e are amazing reproducing piano. Von Schweikert does piano very well like the Vandys. | |
| Amp to Add Dynamics & Detail to 'Polite' Speakers Scott you might try some different cabling for speakers. I have the Satori (shotgun bi wire) as well and it leans to the more polite/recessed I would say. And I would also say it bumps the mid bass a bit. But it works great with the class D amps i... | |
| Experience with the Pass Labs XP-15 phono stage? PS, A friend of mine was over the other day and had never heard my setup before (and probably nothing approaching high end before either). We ended up listening to a bunch of vinyl for a couple hours while our wonderful wives tended to a play date... | |
| Experience with the Pass Labs XP-15 phono stage? Kennyb, I completely agree about tone and timbre. I always felt the earlier Pass stuff was to the cooler side of neutral having owned an X1 pre and moving to an XP10. I have heard the Xono and agree about the increase in sound quality with the XP1... | |
| Experience with the Pass Labs XP-15 phono stage? Tim, the XP15 is a wonderful phono pre. I run an XX2 with phenomenal results using the medium 66 db gain loaded at 100 ohms. I run balanced out. Very quiet and so smooth with amazing 3d soundstage. Phenomenal bass control. No grain whatsoever. I g... | |
| Allmans Brothers and Sisters24/96 on HDTracks Ha, that will have to wait til the 50th anniv I would think | |
| Daft punks RAM on vinyl Chrissain, in your OP you mention "original NASA tapes." What do you refer to? Thanks! | |
| Daft punks RAM on vinyl I agree this is a very good heavy pressing with a big wide and deep soundstage. Lots of good ear candy. I have the vinyl and have not heard the cd version. My guess, Jedi is that the vinyl is uncompressed and the CD is highly compressed (loudness ... | |
| starter TT moving anolog. I tried an entry level table (Marantz TT15) and an entry level phono stage (PS Audio GCPH) and then I sold it all after a year and upgraded significantly to a VPI Classic, Dynavector XX2 mk2, and a Pass XP15 phono stage. I can say that I fell in l... | |
| Tandberg 3000a series It's very good equipment. One of my buddy's parents in high school had a complete tandberg system in the 80s. Nice Danish look. Timeless and would look good today in a rack. | |
| VPI Traveler v1 vs v2 comparison Start up belt chatter on VPI tables can be easily addressed by putting the belt in a ziplock bag, pouring in some baby powder, seal the bag again, shaking the bag, then pull the belt out and shake off extra powder. Then put the belt back on. You h... | |
| Anyone try purple and orange with green CD edge? You people don't make any sense. Really? OK. | |
| Pass pre + Spectron Musician III - will this work? I have not heard the Spectron. I do however run a Pass XP10 in my system with Bel Canto Ref 1000 M class D amps and it sounds good. You do need careful matching of interconnects to be sure you get fleshed out presentation. Good luck. The Pass pres... | |
| Happy Record Store Day I was not able to go this year because of trying to cut my expenses in today's uncertain economic climate. Didn't get the same bonus I have gotten over the past few years, and have more household expenses I am trying to deal with. We cut our Direc... |