viridian
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| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy Not sure what "legendary status" means, but you said the following, "It came down to the modern designers post 2000 after vinyl resurgence to come up with serious phono stages for high end systems." So there were were no serious phono stages befor... | |
| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy There were plenty of great phono stages in the last century. The Vendetta SCB-2c of the 80s and the Mares Connoisseur spring to mind. Not everything was based on the RCA Receiving Tube Manual, not that that is a bad thing. And now we have lots of ... | |
| Vinyl Me Please...well, not anymore You have to hand it to the management team that drives a record company into the ground during the great vinyl Renaissance. | |
| How many times can u visit a hifi store before it annoys the store if u plan on a purchase OP, is there a reason you would simply not ask the proprietor of the store in question? | |
| Amps.. Is Odyssey worth it? Thank you. Anything is only good for the cost if you like the sound quality and the component fits sympathetically into your system, so an audition or blind buy is probably required to determine that. Last year, a friend of mine was selling his S... | |
| Amps.. Is Odyssey worth it? Worth what? | |
| PS Audio BHK300 didn’t work this morning. Jim, thank you, and best of luck for a speedy resolution. | |
| PS Audio BHK300 didn’t work this morning. Sorry to hear of your issues. When you say that you checked "everything" did you physically remove each fuse and test it with the continuity function of a multi-meter or similar? Visual inspection is not reliable. | |
| DIN Phono Cable DIN refers to a variety of connectors originally designated by German standards, what you are looking for specifically is a JIS connector. Japanese standard. | |
| Ortofon carts are too hot for my phono preamp? Excessive capacitance with a MM cartridge will cause a peak in the audible range before any roll off at the top of the range, and this will be perceived as added brightness. https://www.hagtech.com/loading.html | |
| What is a "reference" system? Dekay, thanks for that! Well, if it’s good enough for James Mason, it’s good enough for me. What kills me is that I have visited the homes of some of the old codgers...err members on this board, and you know what? They have all of this scratch bu... | |
| Ortofon carts are too hot for my phono preamp? Well in MM mode the Avid has 48db of gain, which is very high for MM, which is typically around 40db, and the Ortofons tend to measure high output, so what you are hearing could be a mismatch. In which case the only options are to live with it, ch... | |
| What is a "reference" system? No, I mentioned it, "Richard's", short for Richard's Wild Irish Rose. You need to get some better hooch and become more conversant with the finer things in life. | |
| What is a "reference" system? Thanks to all who played. This morning, I just cracked open my second bottle of Thunderbird (hey, it's a holiday), and it hit me. Thunderbird is my "reference" hooch. The one that I judge all other hooch by. Otherwise, I would never know how good ... | |
| Desperate to Get Back to Horns Yes Wolfe! Thank you for the correction, appreciated. |