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| Review: Yamaha CR-840 Vintage AM/FM Receiver Amplifier I understand what you say about the HK460i. I think it sounds exactly as you describe it. I'm sure your Yamaha is much better.The slight superiority of a previous generation of HK receivers--the 930 especially--was audible in the bass and visible ... | |
| Good cd player and a great DAC or great cd player? Thanks for the kind word, Conscious. Your question required me to get my own ideas together, and I enjoyed my shot at that. I see that you have already done a great deal of good research. Your upgrade path makes sense, certainly. May I say, though... | |
| Good cd player and a great DAC or great cd player? The upgrade plan makes sense in principle: buy a player, then a DAC and a digital interconnect, then sell the player and get a good transport. Along the way you might try an aftermarket power cord.But is this the best way? Reliable generalizations... | |
| Biamping towers with tube/SS combo--am I nuts? Gain matching is the problem, I say too. You may have to have a tech adjust the output level of one of the amps.The experiment is probably worth a try, IMHO... unless it takes money you could use for simply upgrading your amp. One great amp will o... | |
| TT interconnects and power cords If this P3 were my table, I would be thinking about a cartridge upgrade as a next step. I would be planning to buy the very best one the arm could take, as a prelude to changing my TT, which I would sell with the _old_ cart. I would then mount the... | |
| Shipping Speakers, watch out Another Canuck here, who just wants to mention that a pair of Shearwaters, 65 pounds each, made it to him just fine via Canada Post. The gentleman carried them in on his shoulder from his truck, one at a time.I've never shipped speakers internatio... | |
| TT interconnects and power cords Rewiring the arm is a possibility but I am guessing that this is not a DIY project for you. Ian should be able to explain your options. I can vouch for the Expressimo Heavy Weight, it makes a very nice difference.I take turntable mat swaps with a ... | |
| Linear tracking arms Leep--hi, yes I meant the SL5. It's in UHF's Alpha reference system, seehttp://www.uhfmag.com/reference.htmlThanks very much for the benefit of your experience with it.Toby | |
| Upgrade Path: CDP or Preamp I agree that the CDP is the thing to change first. Changers are sonic compromises in my experience. The precision of the transport is hard to maintain when joined to a changer mechanism. This means the correction circuits work extra hard in a chan... | |
| Where is my weakest link? I second the thought on placement. I have been trying different ones over the past three years and have only just found what I consider the best so far. The second-last try imaged well but had a midbass hump and no low bass; a new placement took c... | |
| I'm trying Shanling SP-80 monoblocs at home... I use my preamp's ( Klyne SK-5A ) volume control. I set the CD-T100's volume at max and the SP-80's at, get this, -30 dB.This setting was arrived at after experimenting with higher and lower ones. Do try it yourself; in my own setup, the sound is ... | |
| I'm trying Shanling SP-80 monoblocs at home... ? Nealhood's post is certainly good advice and worth following, but I wonder if it wound up in the thread he meant it to. | |
| I'm trying Shanling SP-80 monoblocs at home... The Shanling tube amp and Dared tube amp designers are one and the same gentleman. | |
| Best Values and worst values in SS and tube amps ? Your taste in speakers is much like mine, I would guess. I would love to have Parsifals or Sonus Fabers, although I don't know the GP Home at all. I will remember that you think Sim and Aronov amps are a poor combination with these, next time I ge... | |
| Best Values and worst values in SS and tube amps ? It's very hard to tell how an amp will sound in your system, even if you've heard it with other equipment. The best guide is still listening, though, even if you can't do it at home.Just to prove that YMMV, I loved my Sim Celeste W-4070Se, right u... |