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| Good idea to move from Akito 1 to Akito 2 ?? Sorry, haven't tried what you are asking myself, but I would take an RB300 over an Akito 2. Tweak the RB300 with a Cardas wiring harness, an Expressimo Heavy Weight and a height adjuster and you have a tone arm which will take a good MC cartridge ... | |
| Speakers for small listening room My own speakers are placed on a line drawn at an angle across one corner of the room. That is, the right one is about five feet out from the corner, along the long wall and about two feet away from it ; the left speaker is about eight feet out fro... | |
| Best speaker for medium to low power tube amps?? I got mine from someone who had been driving them with a 50 wpc tube amp in a room about 12 x 15. He had been very happy with that combination. ( Sold because of low WAF for multiple systems. ) Other sources have also been happy with the Shearwate... | |
| Need advice: repair CAL CL25--or buy new/used CDP? Only if the player won't run and you have no other choice. The best way to clean a CDP lens is with a high-quality cleaning disc like the Parasound, available from uhfmag.com and others. Run it every month or so and problems won't build up. | |
| First upgrade from Linn Classik? I'm judging from my experience with my father's Classik. It has just enough power. In a large room and with inefficient speakers, you can easily notice when it starts to run out of breath.The Classik's CDP is not bad--much better than the NAD L40,... | |
| Vinyl or wait for the new stuff?? Fun to read your reaction, Doug S. ; I have to say it was a bit of a chore reading through the spelling quirks but I understand it helps not to take all this too seriously.No commercial CD player for 12 years after the Linn, you say ? I don't know... | |
| Vinyl or wait for the new stuff?? My response has a historical turn to it, because I think the question is the product of its time.Vinyl was brutally attacked and discredited with lies by the CD's promoters when they needed market share to survive. The CD was only just good enough... | |
| Bedroom wars: NAD L40 vs. Linn Classik The Linn Classik is well ahead of the NAD L40 in sound quality, especially on CD. I know--my father has a Classik, I have an L40. You can find used prices for both if you search over a week or two on eBay or here.Linn output connectors look like m... | |
| Best acoustical guitar - any type music These guys are steel guitar pickers.Watson and late son Merle did a great live album on vinyl for Vanguard.Both Watson and Rice recorded with David Grisman ( " Dawg ", the mandolin player ) and you can get hear some of their work on CDs from Grism... | |
| Aussie Audiogoner's re:power cords UHF magazine ( www.uhfmag.com ) sells a kit power cord ( Wireworld Stratus ) in their Audiophile Store section.The kit includes 2m of wire, a Swiss-made IEC connector and a Hubbell NA-style plug, but I bet they'd sell it without the Hubbell.I boug... | |
| Linn Lingo switching power supply it will be a lot less subject to power line garbage. Lingos don't have the Brilliant AFAIK, unless the newer versions have been changed to use them. It's no surprise, though, that a Karik or Numerik equipped with a Brilliant... | |
| Linn Akito Question, Help Please? ... an "upgrade" to the Akito II. This second version was _much_ better than the first. The Akito I was said to be an improvement on the older Basik. The Akito II was said to be an improvement on the older Ittok up to its LVII version.If you pay t... | |
| If you knew then, what you know now... Spend the big bucks on the source. Go for the best even if the rest of the chain is worth only a few hundred. Buy second-hand and insure shipping for full value. Listen and read about others' experiences for a long time before buying. Then pay wha... | |
| Headphone Amp The NVA AP10H headphone amp is recommended by UHF magazine ( uhfmag.com ), although the review is not available on the Net. The amp is available in kit or assembled form from Peak Audio in Nova Scotia.http://www.peakaudio.ns.ca/cgi-bin/store/perls... | |
| Linn LP12. What tonearm and cartridge? I had an Akito 1 and an AT OC-9 on my Lingoed LP12. The arm got damaged and with under $ 1500 to spend I settled on a rewired ( Cardas wiring ) Rega RB 300 with the Express Machining Heavy Weight counterweight and VTA adjuster base. Cartridge is a... |