vuch
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| Power Conditioners I have a Transparent Powerbank 6. I get some hum when I turn on the low voltage lights in the room since upgrading the turntable and cartridge to a TA Zeus MC from a Grace F-9 MM. I just bought an old Furman Elite 15 DM to see if there's any impr... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? @mulveling, thanks for your information. I just stumbled on your review of the Quadratic MC-1 SUT. As I've stated before I do love the way my rig sounds. However I have a lot of hum and at times notice some RF since adding a Triangle Art Maestro... | |
| Integrated Amps @rauliruegas Yes, I have upgraded my entire rig except for the CD player, which I really don’t use anymore but keep it in the rack for nostalgia purposes. The rest of my rig: NAT Audio Symmetrical Balanced Line Stage, NAT Audio Magma M mono block... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? @mijostyn, thanks for your thoughts/advice! I do love the sonics of my rig as it currently stands. I've tube rolled with my previous preamp and power amp. To my ears the VTPH-2a sounds best with the factory tubes. My buddy who suggested that I ge... | |
| Integrated Amps I resurrected my system five years ago by purchasing a Yamaha A-S3000 integrated amp. It was a huge sonic improvement over the Yamaha A-1000 integrated I bought in 1985. It was easy to discern because I had the same speakers, Infinity RS-4b’s. Th... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? @mijostyn, thanks for the response. I've tried the other tube configuration you mentioned. I spoke with Keith Herron and ordered the 12AX7 tubes he recommended. There was more gain but I didn't like the sonic signature as much with them so I put t... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? I have a buddy who tells me I need a STU. I don't know what to get. My gear is a Triangle Art Zeus cartridge, Herron VTPH-2 phono preamp, NAT Audio Symmetrical preamplifier. NAT Audio Magma M mono blocks and Magico A3 speakers. Any suggestions ... | |
| Listening Room Thanks guys, this thread has been very entertaining! | |
| ABX testing with AQ Dragon power cords Before trying a Dragon HC power cord on my preamplifier all of the power cords on my rig were the basic black power cords that come with new gear. I noticed a very nice improvement in sonics when I put the Dragon in. I kept it in the rig for a mon... | |
| Anyone listen to entire albums? Yes, I almost always listen to entire records during a listening session. I think it goes back to my childhood because that’s how I listened back then. I didn’t have a lot of records so I guess the listening experience developed that way because I... | |
| Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System? Great question! The more you go up in electronics, the more revealing your system becomes. Sometimes there are differences in SQ within songs on a side of a vinyl record but more frequently the differences in SQ occur on different sides of an albu... | |
| Worst Speakers Ever?? Panasonic Thrusters. Prove me wrong. | |
| Re: streaming recommendations for newbie I’m not aware of a less expensive high quality way to get into streaming than with the AudioQuest Cobalt DAC. It only costs a few hundred bucks. I also bought a quality AudioQuest cable for it. It plugs into your laptop. So for about 600 bucks you... | |
| 40+ watts SET, cost is not a problem @paradisecom, yes, the Magma’s are monsters! The transformers are about twice as big as the ones on the NAT Audio Generators. The chassis is 26" long. The Magma M’s transformers are almost one foot tall! The sonics are much more pleasing than the... | |
| 40+ watts SET, cost is not a problem I purchased the NAT Audio Magma M mono block amps from OCD Mikey in Atlanta. They are SET and have two power settings, 50 WPC and 130 WPC. Mikey demoed them with the TAD bookshelf speakers and The TAD’s sounded really great! After hearing them tog... |