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| Distortion with ARC Ref 150 and Maggie 3.7 I think, you overload your phonsection. Distortion has nothing to do with Antiskate, Azimuth or wrong alignment when you only can hear it in the upper frequencies when the dynamics start to rise. "This" kind of distortion in Phono is normally the ... | |
| WP 5.1 vs WP7 A few years ago I was interested to build up another System and I had the same question. I asked one of my favorite Dealers whose opinion I did trust. At that time WP8 was the current model I think. His opinion was interesting, he did recommend th... | |
| Record cleaning fluids It seems AIVS collects the vote of many who tried it.Well, it is like reading a review. All is great, all is fine but:AIVS is a multistep cleaning solution, that means, any owner who spends 30 minutes per record expect to hear terrific improvement... | |
| Record cleaning fluids Hannl VI 3C, my choice | |
| Getting ready for new cart I would buy a better Arm instead of another cartridge, | |
| what will be the best old CLASSIC amp to rebuild. QUAD 303 | |
| Your most disappointing purchase or audition? say the Pass Labs X 250.5. I used it in single ended mode, which I was told later was not optimum, although I never read that in all of my pre-purchase research. I bought it and auditioned it with 5 different speakers in my system, and in each cas... | |
| Magico S5 vs Tannoy Westminster Royal SE .... the sound of the Magico S5 is salubrious, exquisite, stunning, glorious and dazzling and the sound of the Tannoy Westminster Royal SE is superlative, smashing, magnificent, superb and impeccable... | |
| Audio research REF 5 SE / REF 40th Ann compared ? Quite a few times he does mention how close the Ref5SE is to the 40th - but each time he always indicates that the 40th does have the last word in most - if not all - of the attributes he describesAs usual, the more expensive unit is ALWAYS better... | |
| Best of current 12ax7? Tube rolling has one problem from sonics: It will show YOU what it can do in a given unit, with a given design, with a given layout, with given tube sockets, with the output range of a given preamp and so on. Change the unit and you can start all ... | |
| Meitner/EMM Labs Firmware Upgrade = Sonic Bliss That's what I like about digital Hardware. No matter what you/we own right now, no matter how expensive the unit was/is, the next upgrade is always a sonic revolution. A game changer. Something ultra terrific. Something which beams us back into a ... | |
| Back to basics A very source are the Virtual Systems here. A lot of inspirations and when you find something interesting, read the comments or try to get in touch with the owner for his opinion about it. | |
| Spin Clean seems to add noise to records? Most users think, cleaning (whatever way) is the way to go and forget the next step.I think, this is wrong, cleaning is more or less simple, the real - sonic - step ahead is the way to remove everything from the grooves. Here are the real differen... | |
| DAC Choice in 47Labs CDP system Wadia DAC from the 90's | |
| Recommendations for SS preamp for Pass XA-30.8 Try Klyne 7 Preamp, it closes the gap between Transistor and Tubes. |