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| Genesis digital lens IMHO, money would be better spent updating your CD player. There has been a lot of digital advances since the launch of the Digital Lens some 25 years ago. Also, the Digital Lens is limited to Redbook 16 bits 44.1kHz sample rates. | |
| Insurance values My buddy wanted to insure his record collection and was told by his insurance company that he would require a professional appraisal to establish the insurable value. IIRC, the appraisal was quite costly and required updating at the insurance com... | |
| Audio Research Ref 10 vs 40th Anniversary preamp My buddy owns the 5SE and has a dealer demo ARC 6. In his system, I have a VERY hard time telling the difference between the two pre-amps. Perhaps a longer time with each would reveal the subtleties. He loves his 5SE and was hoping for more of the... | |
| Monoblock power amps same dedicated outlet? The guys at Reno HiFi told me that Pass Lab amplifiers do not employ a ground reference at the speaker terminal which makes them "less" susceptible to ground loops. Therefore, if you are running the big Pass mono block amplifiers, they recomme... | |
| Charisma Audio Cartridges Charisma Audio is a very small Canadian cartridge manufacturer, therefore, there may not be a lot of samples in use. | |
| Insurance values My understanding is that if your policy is for replacement value, you base the insured value on a similar item available today. I would consult your insurance broker to make sure, since that is his/her job. | |
| Can anyone explain in laymans terms why your gear sound better after warm up >>>>Do you have an explanation for demagnetizing CDs, too? I’m interested in both. Demagnetizing stretches the O and I so they can be more easily read as 0 and 1 | |
| Perfect Path Solutions Total Contact Mega Review Has anyone compared TC with Stabilant 22? | |
| Which Preamp Would You Choose? @adg01 The SF Line 1 with Sovtek or new production tubes is not what I would call SS or if so it’s very good SS, but again I would not go there. You are right, I didn’t mean to imply that all SS pre amps are poor sounding. What I was trying to con... | |
| PSA: Be Careful Dealing With Uptone Audio I am not sure that the credit card company will side with the buyer as long as he has the replacement LPS-1.2 in his procession. | |
| Has anyone tried Brass cartridge mounting screws? @bdp24 wrote I’m with @best-groove: brass is too soft. Are you having an issue with the brass threads stripping or do you not like the sound of brass bolts? | |
| Which Preamp Would You Choose? Have you listened to a Sonic Frontiers?? The most solid state sounding tubed preamp made. I would expand my search. | |
| Has anyone tried Brass cartridge mounting screws? From Reference 3A's website " Driver frames are fastened with softer metal brass screws to avoid resonance noise potentially generated by similarly hard metals" Perhaps that theory holds true for cartridge bolts. | |
| Subwoofers is 5 is the Magic number? IME if you cross over subs at 60hz or higher, running them in stereo will benefit the sound stage assuming that the subs are place in a complimentary arrangement with the main speakers. Very Low frequencies are typically summed into mono during t... | |
| Do you prefer tidy room to messy one with better sound? I think that we would all agree that no one appreciates a "messy" room, as messy implies untidy, dirty, and items oriented in a nonsensical manner. In a common living area, I appreciate a more minimalist approach and in some instance, style and d... |