theflattire
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| Moving to Tube Separates or Tube Integrated + Phono I run all tubes and for sure you can tell the difference between a SS phono stage and a tube one. That doesn't mean you lose the tube sound, it's just more pronounced with the tube stage and only discernable if you can get then side by side. Tha... | |
| How Much to Spend on Turntable, Cart., Phono Pre @inagroove Flexible for sure! Actually I would try to go 1/3 cart, 1/3 TT, and 1/3 phono stage. I'm sort of close to that but I got my Koetsu Black used. I just wrote it that way to show how important I think the phono stage is; it's the hear... | |
| How Much to Spend on Turntable, Cart., Phono Pre Without knowing your budget: 35% TT 45% phono stage 20% cart that's about my breakdown I have an older VPI Prime. | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback Phono stage first. Everything else has to go through it. Not sure why folks don't see the logic behind this. You can have the greatest TT/Cart ever but running it through a mediocre phono stage only gets you mediocre. A great phono stage will ... | |
| Thoughts on swapping out Audioquest and Transparent cables for Duelund I used 16g Duelund as speaker and IC. I would call them dark compared to regular copper. Everything brightened up when I changed it out. | |
| High Performance Moving Iron Cartridge Candidates? There's been talk going around about a new Nagaoka MP-700... | |
| How to find local audiophiles I went to the local high end shop and met a couple of guys. I also met some while buying stuff on CL or USAM and seeing they were local to me. | |
| Will a high quality preamp really make a difference in sound?? Also speaker cable My logic says if a pre is making your system sound better, then there's something wrong either upstream or downstream. I'd rather have a good sounding amp and source with a passive pre. | |
| I'm curious. What is your "normal" listening volume? +/- 75 db | |
| Some people actively participate but rarely if ever start a thread. Most of my questions can be answered via the search function. | |
| Recommendation for phono stage Zesto Andros for one box | |
| Unipivot tone arms I have a VPI, the arm doesn't bother me. I rotate carts every month or so and it's like setting up any other cart like on say a Rega. Now that I use a unipivot, it kinda bothers me that a gimbaled arm can only track in two axis, while the unipiv... | |
| Okay, that's it -- I'm done (unless I win the lottery) Congratulations! | |
| Phono stages: Hagerman and Sun Valley 1616 possible giant killers @rivinyl I would definitely give Zesto a look/listen. Never heard but almost went with a Andros II. I have an EAR 834 clone and its warm sounding so maybe the newer EAR like the Classic or 88PB? Warmest I've had was the Tavish Adagio, but its... | |
| Phono stages: Hagerman and Sun Valley 1616 possible giant killers No experience with the Trumpet. I have built a Bugle and Cornet. I fully expect the Trumpet to compete with next level phono stages. If you are not set on tubes, check out Darlington Labs. |