tonyptony
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| A new player in the quality Mono cartridge game Like a few who have posted here I've been looking for a mono cart - so I've been following this discussion about the AT33MONO with interest. I wonder if anyone has a handle on how it compares to others in the price range of up to $500 or so. | |
| How often do you upgrade your turntable? I changed from my AR ES-1 after 30 years. During that time I tricked it out with almost every improvement ever made for it, but as the rest of my system gradually improved over that length of time the day came when I felt like it was time to move ... | |
| Experiences buying used cartridges I had one very positive and one very negative experience buying used. The bad one was for a cart that (sounds like the stock description) had "low hours" and "functioned perfectly". It couldn't make a clean sound to save its life. I made the mista... | |
| Clear Day XLR Vito, I got one of the first pair of Paul's XLRs last year. They replaced by AZ Absolute Coppers, but that doesn't mean in my system they do everything better. They are slightly smoother and have more extended highs. The mids are great, but from t... | |
| clearaudio turntables vs vpi Hiendmuse, thanks for that. I'd love to get your impression of how a Prime set up that way sounded next to a Classic 3 (if you could make that comparison). | |
| clearaudio turntables vs vpi Hiendmuse, what else did you hear at Harry's? I'll be going up to see him this Friday. | |
| Acoustic Zen Silver Ref. II vs Absolute IC's Barto, what did you move to, and did you find something that kept what the Absolutes do well but give you more air and openness? | |
| TUBES: Telefunken EL84 & ECC801 Chakster, the answer depends to some degree on the kind of sound you're looking for. If you like what the TFKs are doing, then IMO Montytx is right - the ECC801S and the Valvo 6201 is as good as you can get. Other well regarded tubes - the Sylvani... | |
| Madrigal Proceed PCD3 remote control... HELP Luca58, two things. First - I've had this happen in one or two remotes I've owned. If you haven't tried it yet you might want to take apart the remote and carefully scrub away the residue. Use caution when doing this, but sometimes the remote can ... | |
| PS Audio Direct Stream Agree with Ozzy regarding the inputs. But IME the output (XLR in my case) is very sensitive to correct IC matching. | |
| Transparent Cable Upgrade? The reference mm2 balance inter. cable was a little disappointing. It was a improvement not as big as the speaker cable was. Had a interconnect cable that was about one fifth the cost and it only slightly better.68pete, I'm curious - what less exp... | |
| PS Audio Direct Stream But, if PS Audio didn't make claims about it needing no burn in time, I wouldn't be concerned.I don't recall if Paul claimed no burn in for this DAC, but with all due respect to him and some others who've become virtual friends on the forums, I th... | |
| PS Audio Direct Stream I don't see how anyone could think this unit is great straight out of the box.I noted the things the DS did "better" when I first turned it on, but I wasn't ready to throw out the parts to my PWD Mk.II. Believe me it took as long as I indicated be... | |
| PS Audio Direct Stream Matt, IME you will need most of that 30 day trial period to get the final sense of the DS. In my system it took somewhere after 3-4-500 hours before the high end came into its own. Just make sure when you're not listening to it to keep running mus... | |
| PS Audio Direct Stream Ozzy, they are shipping but as Pmotz indicated no one has yet raised the "I got mine" flag. PS Audio did indicate the first units off the line had been sent to a number of reviewers, so maybe that means we'll be seeing something in electronic prin... |