vuch
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| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? I appreciate and am interested in what somebody has created with their rig and discography. I'm definitely up for a listening session. It's always nice to hear another rig no matter the value of it or experience of its owner. | |
| New Speakers under consideration - but I’m afraid My advice is to do if you're gonna do it. How bad do you want the best sonics? Go large on the reserve funds to get other equipment after the speakers. | |
| Magico speakers too clinical and fatiguing? @willyht no doubt! I also greatly enjoyed @deep_333 and @rforddaddyo's takes. The Room! Speaker placement to listening position are the cheapest, fastest way to getting there with whatever you've got. I've found matching the triangle set-up by h... | |
| Magico speakers too clinical and fatiguing? Unless you hear Magico speakers in a dedicated listening room where every detail has been addressed you're probably not going to hear their potential. The first time I heard them was at dealership listening room in Chicago. I couldn't believe th... | |
| Magico speakers too clinical and fatiguing? It is true that Magico speakers expose the weakness of gear up the chain. After hearing an incredible demo of them and deciding to purchase them you must be committed to addressing the gear up the chain and your room. Many audiophiles stretch to ... | |
| 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... |