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| How do I pay? Don't do it. | |
| smaller speakers for critical listening? Difficult room in what way? Do you have a back wall to work with? If so try the Larsen speakers from Sweden. They use the floor-to-wall interface to give you great bass and accurate stereo in almost any room. Several price points correlating to ro... | |
| To venture back into vinyl or not,...that is the question. Depends entirely on how many vinyl records you own. | |
| ...bookshelf speakers that sound good at low volume... Tannoys or Fyne. Coax or dual-concentric speakers are more coherent at low volume and the higher sensitivity of such speakers also helps. | |
| Tubed Preamp recommendations? You had better check the input impedance of your Meridian amp (I don't see it published anywhere) to make sure it at least 10x the output impedance of the preamp you are considering. Unless by "warm and silky" you like rolled off highs. | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. Your Ortofon Black would benefit from a better turntable/arm. The new Technics tables/arms, as suggested here, definitely sound good with the 2M series. An added bonus would with the Technics is that it would allow you to swap out another headshel... | |
| purchasing US made speakers It's the size and shape of your room (and the placement in the room) that matters most. Don't buy a speaker you have not auditioned in your room. Try as many as you can before purchasing. I've had modestly priced speakers that outperformed much ex... | |
| Should people with no turntable or reel to reel be considered audiophiles? Yes, but they should keep it to themselves. No one likes audiophiles... | |
| Tube Preamp with Solid State Amp? Let's not forget about matching impedance here. Tube power amps typically have higher input impedance, like 100K or so, and will accept any sort of output from a preamp, whereas solid the A21 has only 33K, so you will need a tube preamp with a fai... | |
| SME Tonearms of Canada - Alfred and Company that sell new and refurbish SME He rebuilt my 3009II (unimproved) and it works and sounds great. Service was good and fast but not cheap. | |
| confused and don't know what to do Forget about how a speaker sounds at Best Buy. You need to try (borrow from stores or friends) a speaker to hear in your own listening environment, which as you describe, sounds like a challenge. The room is the biggest variable. Figure out where ... | |
| Help in putting together my system with used equipment on Audiogon and eBay. I'd work with what you already have and not sell anything, because you'll lose money. That said, in building any audio system (other than a headphone system) you need to start with your room: assess your room and pick speakers that effectively dri... | |
| Thinking about upgrading, but wondering about diminishing returns Three comments:1. You don't say what makes you unhappy with your current set-up, but you mention that "soundstaging" could be improved. This usually means there's something wrong with the speaker-room interface. Look there first. Most speakers sou... | |
| why do some turntables have multiple tonearms? If you collect records and like to have the original artifacts, you'll need to play 78s with a 2.7-3.0 mil stylus, a mono configuration and most likely a heavier tracking force. If you enjoy early mono LPs played back properly, you also need a mon... | |
| Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read his lyrics and his book, Chronicles Volume One and you'll see why. While his music helps put across his poetry (much as Elizabethan stagecraft helped convey Shakespeare's) his musical sensibilitie... |