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| Upgrading my Linn set up HELP advice please Again great advice from Lugnut IMO. I agree that Aktiv is the way to go eventually, and I agree preamp first. When I listened to various combinations of Linn components, active and passive, that really stood out. The active setup let me hear all t... | |
| Won't preamps become obsolete? I listen to vinyl on a Linn LP12 and to digital on a TEAC VRDS T1 / Apogee DA1000E. My amps are Shanling SP-80 monoblocs with built-in electronic volume control. I could run CD playback straight to the amplifiers but I choose not to because there ... | |
| Upgrading my Linn set up HELP advice please I second the preamp advice. I sort of hate to, because I think the Pretek, Powertek and Intek were three of Linn's best value amplifiers, but your system looks fairly well balanced now. I don't think a Mimik would be any improvement at all over yo... | |
| Decca cartridge experiences All my experience with Deccas is very old. (But by George, this thread is tempting me... agh!) I too remember it did well in the Keith Monks (you hardly ever saw one of those). It also worked in the ERA tt's stock arm, a plastic girder-shaped devi... | |
| Good automatic TT's I'd go for1) my fave idea, an Expressimo lifter. I wouldn't want to give up the resolution of my high-end TT just to save getting up. When I think I'm woozy enough to let the runout groove play for an hour, I try to put on a CD so I can drift off ... | |
| speaker placement.. Ttrhp & Ozfly, I was glad to read this since I have first-order XOs and a similar room feature, though not so big. BTW Ozfly, what Thiels are first-order ? ( Just curious. ) | |
| Decca cartridge experiences I paid attention, and I want to thank you for the benefit of your experience and research. I don't ever expect to be setting up a Decca again, but you never know.I did see a couple of years back that someone in Europe had NOS Decca International a... | |
| Advice on system with Aurum Cantus vs.PSB/Paradigm Nobody knows it really. It's a solid state amp, made in the Shenzen region I think. I got a good deal on it but I don't think it has a distributor in NA any more. It's a basic, 4-input amp with a remote, in a heavy aluminum case (Chinese factories... | |
| Advice on system with Aurum Cantus vs.PSB/Paradigm Oh, I think it's not much of a review and I'm hardly an expert but thanks for the kind word. If I do a review it will be based on how the ACs sound in my main system.Sound characteristic is, I would say, balanced. I thought of saying dark but that... | |
| Advice on system with Aurum Cantus vs.PSB/Paradigm I know the PSB Image 4t but not the 5t. I am listening to a pair of Aurum Cantus Leisure 2s at the moment. (My bedroom is less than half the size of yours but that's where I'm listening to the ACs.) Note that my AC's are a version with upgraded cr... | |
| Klyne pre-amps, any experience out there? Are " they " worth it ?Thomasheisig has mentioned the current series. I can speak for the one before it.The SK5A is a great-sounding preamp and usually a great buy. Like the current series 7 models, it is a (transistor) unit that tends to make you... | |
| Saw the thread on Xindak, what about the Shanling? I have heard comments about Chinese audio products which I thought amounted less to lucid perception than to a kind of sour grapes. It's as though Chinese labour costs and working conditions gave these products an unfair advantage in the market. B... | |
| What to upgrade next? Your speaker cables look like the next step, as everyone says. I like my Ensemble Voiceflux cables for the money, but you can pay more and get better. I agree power conditioning needs a look if you haven't done that already, and also good power co... | |
| Need DA convert Oooh, it seems to me you need a lot of information. I'll try to deliver the basics. The transport reads the digital signal off the disc. This signal is in the form of numbers. ( The numbers happen to be in binary format because we have no better w... | |
| Review: Shanling CD-T100 CD Player Maybe you heard a CD-T100 from an early production run. I listened to a newer version and heard a great improvement over the unit I owned myself. If this is typical then you get a _lot_ more for your money now than youdid initially. |