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| What is the Best Tool to Measure Cartridge Azimuth? To start it helps to set a zero reference and go from there. With a well manufactured cartridge, only tiny adjustments if any will be necessary from this reference to get correct azimuth. One should also pay attention to how the various parameters... | |
| Speaker placement Great thread; lots of good suggestions.Jim Smith's method should also be considered. In addition to his book, you can schedule a listening session at his studio (sets a reference to what's possible) or he can come to your home and do it for you al... | |
| Upgrade from Schiit Bifrost 2? Same thing happened to my Lyr 3, twice. Sold it after the second repair.One of the ways Schiit keeps costs down is compromised thermal management. I wonder how long before internal components start to deteriorate, causing a long, subtle race to th... | |
| klipshorn speakers He should just be sure to have two corners that will allow the listening chair to be centered and far enough back.Yes, these at high volumes might do structural damage to his home. | |
| What + experience have you had with an indoor FM antenna? They suck... | |
| New WIREWORLD Eclipse 8 series FULL REVIEW And, then you also have the, "my brand is the most neutral" response. Very much doubt these guys have auditioned the Wireworld cables being discussed in their system much less the 100s of other brands on the market.Of course, the million dollar qu... | |
| New WIREWORLD Eclipse 8 series FULL REVIEW Assuming WireWorld has continued to refine their decades old goal of maximum possible neutrality, if their cables do not work out in a system, a logical conclusion would be that the problem is something other than the wire. Rather than an expensiv... | |
| Speaker Recommendation The bad news: the Klipsch RP-8000F is a greatly flawed speaker.The good news: it can be fixed.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P8EjYgI510 | |
| Free in-home testing? Also judging sound at shows is for the most part futile. For years, best of show and runner ups rarely have anything to do with the gear but the set up skills of the manufacturer. The really smart ones hire the best, guys like Jim Smith.For exampl... | |
| Rega Planar 3: Is the Exact a significant upgrade from the Elys 2? The Ortofon 2M MM line's (Red, Blue, Bronze. Black) designer(s) appear to have had Rega in mind as their cartridge shape seems to almost exactly match the angles on the tonearm. I've mounted a few Blacks or Bronzes on Rega tables with excellent re... | |
| What speaker has the best tweeter? The best tweeter to my ears that I've heard are those made by ATC; used in their pricier speakers.I have not heard most of the ones mentioned above, so they may very well be better. | |
| Great Recordings, Sonically Speaking - and Why. Absolutely agree with Lee Shore; great call. Just thinking of that performance, gives me goosebumps.That entire 4 CD set, for the most part, is breathtaking.Yes, Crosby may be the biggest asshole in rock but what a talent! He follows in the footst... | |
| Great Recordings, Sonically Speaking - and Why. +1 David Crosby; that LP is on the TAS Super Disc list which fueled the vinyl resurgence and early heavy vinyl reissues. One of my favorite albums but mostly for content; the great sound quality is icing on the cake.In Jim Smith's Get Better Sound... | |
| Phono cartridge Sometime I like playing games. Recently I put a $275 Grado Opus3 cartridge on a $15k turntable/arm with an equally good phono stage. I ask audiophile visitors how much they think the cartridge costs. So far guesses come in somewhere between $600 -... | |
| Jolida Fusion DAC/transport: opinions or other DAC/transport alternatives? I just posted this in another thread:"One of the best sounding CD player / DACs I've heard (tube or solid state) is the Black Ice Audio Transport DAC (tube output stage). I think the retail price is very reasonable considering the sound quality. U... |