vuch
Responses from vuch
| CD's or Vinyl? Vinyl for sure because of so many reasons. Top three are that it sounds much better than my digital set up, artwork & the nostalgia of it all. | |
| Cardas or Nordost for Simaudio/Magico I would definitely go with Cardas Clear. I own the A3’s and have an authentic Clear unbalanced interconnect between the phono stage and the preamplifier. Before I bought it, I listened to it in my rig. The overall sonics convinced me to drop the c... | |
| Has anyone had problems getting their money refunded by The Music Room? I've sold a couple of amps to TMR. The transactions worked flawlessly. | |
| What does you reference rig do better than your vintage rig or vice versa? @dover, @jsalerno277, Yes, my mistake. It definitely was loudness feedback rather than flutter. I moved the speakers towards the front wall 1 foot, they're still almost two feet into the room. I’m able to listen now still with great sonics. Now ... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? Comparison is the thief of joy. Nothing wrong with generally comparing similar components or brands as you build your rig. However when you reach your happy end, then do what Rick James said, "ENJOY YOURSELF!" | |
| What does you reference rig do better than your vintage rig or vice versa? @dover, I’ve got an AKAI AP-A50 Linear Tracking tt with an Audio-Technica DR250 cartridge. Unfortunately, my room is less than stellar for hifi playback. I’ll mess with speaker placement and consider adding bass traps. I’ve added a thick, heavy ... | |
| What do you do when you get a bad vinyl record pressing? @tablejockey, your inclination also occurred to me as well. Other records do sound great but there's no harm in checking tonearm/cartridge set up again. I'll do that when I get back to the main rig. Right now I'm just in heaven with the vintage ri... | |
| What do you do when you get a bad vinyl record pressing? @lewn, @tablejockey, @kennyc +1 Yes! donating a record gives you a great feeling. Seeing the enjoyment on a person’s face is priceless when they find out you are giving them the album and don’t want anything for it. Donating to a vinyl store is a... | |
| What do you do when you get a bad vinyl record pressing? @mikelavigne, I concur with your digitally sourced pressings paragraph. I don't seek them out but in several cases I've crossed that line in search for the best sounding. The last two I recall are Steven Wilson remixes of Aqualung and Songs From T... | |
| What do you do when you get a bad vinyl record pressing? We didn't notice bad pressings as much in the '80's and '90's because we all had processors. We prided ourselves on getting the music to sound as good as we could make it sound with all of the levers on the equalizer. I also had a dbx 3bx III whic... | |
| New vs uses in your current setup Current rig is 80% new 20% used of the major components; tt, phono pre, preamp, power amps, speakers. | |
| Sound right before song begins on vinyl, what is it? Audible pre echo, cool topic. In the afore mentioned thread I was wondering how long it was going to be before somebody referenced "Whole Lotta Love?" At this point it would seem artificial if we didn’t hear it. Less organic not authentic. Our b... | |
| Why so many AQ Hurricane PC's for sale? @marco1 Good to know. Yes they're balanced, NAT Audio Magma M monos coming from NAT Audio Symmetrical Balanced Line Stage. | |
| Why so many AQ Hurricane PC's for sale? I’ve tried lots of different PC’s and IC’s. I just put a new XLR between the pre and power amps last night. Cardas Parsec from a dealer sold as authentic, used. I had pro XLR’s in there because it’s a 6 meter run. My initial thoughts are I’m not s... | |
| How close are you to being to your endgame? My system outline and I'm almost there. I’m there. Maybe add a second tonearm and mono cartridge down the road? Perhaps a different power conditioner someday? A six meter XLR run of Cardas Clear from the amp to monos might be nice too someday? But yeah definitely got the rig at the endg... |