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| Canary Audio Is it not prudent to ask for opinions on a a product before your buy? | |
| Tonearm for Technics 1200GR The beauty of the 1200GR is that it is an one stop complete solution. Add a cartridge and play records. If you want a more an a la carte approach, I would recommend to look elsewhere. | |
| Where are Conicident Speaker Technology electronics made ? @bigkidz wrote I am just wondering when people say built like a tank or great build quality what do they actually mean? Are they familiar with audio designs? Do they make their own equipment? Just how do they know this? What makes a great ... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Why not send Triplanar an email requesting the thread pitch/count utilized on their VTA tower? Conversely, if you can unscrew and remove the vta tower, you can count the threads per inch and that will allow you to calculate the change in height p... | |
| Speaker recommendation thread (Organised by tiers of price) Isn't this what you are attempting to achieve?? https://www.stereophile.com/category/recommended-components | |
| Best Values In Speakers To Pair With Coincident Frankenstein MKII Monoblocks? Try to find a pair of Coincident Total Eclipse speakers. They are tough to find and tough to beat for low power amplifiers. | |
| Turntable Advice? Turntables are very basic and easy to fix. SOTA has excellent customer service and sells parts for their legacy tables. | |
| What brands tend to have the worst resale value? Any component that is technology based like a DAC, music streamers, DSP etc. As new technology is released, the older tech gets devalued. | |
| can you add tone controls to a primaluna HP integrated amp Unfortunately you bought the wrong amplifier. | |
| What are the advantages to a Class A amp & what are the trade offs? Typically more expensive per watt of power, higher energy consumption, hot running and requires adequate ventilation, can require more maintenance due to the internal heat build up. Class A amps tend to be big and bulky.As for the difference in s... | |
| Anyone here with Magico A3 driven by Bel Canto Ref600's? To answer your direct question, yes the REF600 will drive the Magico A3, but I agree with Audio Troy's assessment regarding the dry sounding nature of the REF600 which may become more evident with the hyper detailed Magico. | |
| Balanced Tube Preamp Recommendations for $2000 It will be tough to find a true differential balanced tube preamp for $2,000 used. | |
| 2019 300B tubes that are worth the money? Aren't Sophia tubes just rebranded TJ Full Music tubes in which Sophia claims to cherry pick the best for the US market? | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? Any manufacture or dealer that offers a 90-day no questions asked return policy is okay in my books. Why trust the marketing spiel when you can try it yourself. | |
| Dealers and exaggerated treble @testpilot wrote...Perhaps one of the upstream components inverted phase. @kenjit wrote...does not matter where the phase was inverted. It should be immediately obvious unless you have bad hearing or it was deliberate. Sure it does. A lot of ... |