ts0711
Responses from ts0711
| Decent preamp to match my modest system? @stereo5,The 3B is truly a work of "Art"... I've got the JC gold board in mine and have been loving it for a few years now. If you want better you have to break into the >$5,000 price range. I've got the original VPI Aries with a Rega 300 incog... | |
| Inexpensive Transport Second hand Mac mini.... < $ 600, playback software cost about $50... And your well on your way to a fine digital front end. | |
| Decent preamp to match my modest system? A used AI mod 3 with the mc phono board will smoke the mapletree.... No disrespect intended but I bought a mapletree 4 se when I had my modulus upgraded. It's OK for the price but you can do much better. | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Dude,Get the Lightspeed thing and put the other $9,500 into your 401k or lap dances.... | |
| My tube amp sounds darker now. Have you checked your Bias? | |
| VPI Traveller I guess that why they stopped making the original Aries... No upgrades were needed :/) | |
| Cardas vs. Harmonic Technology I can't comment on the Cardas, however I had the HT pro 9+ and they were easily bettered by my current Crimson Musiclink.Tony | |
| Wadia 121 Dedoding Computer? Very disappointed it still uses a wall wart power supply... | |
| How will you split $3000 between phono and cart ? $300 for a Denon 103r, and the remainder on a Parasound JC3 phono pre... That's the way I would go. | |
| Audible Illusions 3A MM or MC phono board? I have to second the setup transformer recommendation, and I had Art upgrade my 3B with the JC Gold MC board. I sounds great and Arts a really nice guy but you won't see your preamp for months and months and months.... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? That's funny George... Every so offen I switch between my Audilble Illusions 3B and my Bent... One day I'm going to breakdown and buy a Lightspeed. But I'll go with the stereo unit cause having a dual mono can make you nuts, especially when you ar... | |
| Amarra = no sound after Pure Music installed Check your midi setup... It may have changed or you made need to set each device for sound output. If memory serves...Tony | |
| Impedance Matching - Tube Amp/Speakers I believe I'm using Electro-Harmonic EL34, that were sourced from VTL. In my experance different brands of tubes (in the same family - i.e. EL34) will have an impact on bass, but not speed. For my main stereo I use NOS Mullard XF2's (EL34's from t... | |
| Impedance Matching - Tube Amp/Speakers Youre safe Back in the day, I had Duntech Marquis and had lots of fun using QuickSilver Silver 60s (KT88s) and the Silver 90s but those were big 3 way, time aligned speakers that really needed solid state to sing. They sounded very good with t... | |
| sub $600 DACs: MF vs Music Hall vs Schiit I use the Bifrost in a second system and I'm very happy with it. I really don't think you can go wrong there. I've got the USB option for the Mac mini, optical for the old Roku soundbridge, and spdif for a cal Della transport. Plenty of bass, nice... |