vinylvalet
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| whole house surge protector +1 EP 2050 & 2750. | |
| recommended reading Get Better Sound | |
| Zesto Audio Customer Service. Outstanding US company. I love their products and service. | |
| Is Tidal messing up for you? Would you Choose Amazon over it? Neither. +1 Qobuz. | |
| What phono preamp are you using? @scm +1. I've heard that exact combo. Outstanding and tremendous value. Congrats. @gakerty Thank you. | |
| What phono preamp are you using? @gakerty BTW, you meant Tesla E83CC, correct? | |
| What phono preamp are you using? @gakerty +1. I also love my Andros Deluxe 2, the best among my several phono stages. Excellent description. Thanks for the tube rolling tips. Agree, should have 30k and 47k MC loading options. | |
| I miss my Loudness Button and Tone Controls.... @mirolab +1. Your use of the term re-master is perfect. | |
| I miss my Loudness Button and Tone Controls.... I believe it may have been deliberate. Yes, the loudness and tone controls us older folks used in the 70s were crappy circuits with crappy parts. So throw the baby out with the bathwater? Really the beginning of the sham that high end audio has la... | |
| I miss my Loudness Button and Tone Controls.... Another option, would be to have a DAC with a nice set of DSP options; continuously variable loudness control using a recent, advanced algorithm, full range of user programable equalization or even user programmable room correction (not an algorit... | |
| Hum from my Rega Planar 3 This will help (yes, I own one) if you don't want to modify your turntable. @noromance is correct though; his is the best solution. Humbucker | |
| Stay grounded Most of the audiophile grounding solutions available are grossly overpriced, IMHO. It's not rocket science. Basically the same thing a good designer would do inside a component; star ground. The most reasonably priced of these solutions and one ... | |
| Linlai E 6sn7 tubes I agree with @atmasphere that Sophia should be avoided. My experience with their customer support has been terrible. My Linlai tubes arrived just recently, haven't had time to try them yet. Thanks to @rocray for bringing these to my attention. | |
| Favorite Preamps without phono section +1 Zesto Leto II although Herron's Reference line stage would be the obvious choice. You don't describe what you mean by "wasted feature-sets". If by that you mean basically a remote controlled volume and selector switch then all the recommendati... | |
| Best Remote for Roon Nucleus+ Agree, the Kindle Fire tablet is the best value. I use Apple products and all work flawlessly. I know others with Window and Android. No complaints. |