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| Spin Clean seems to add noise to records? I've found that TTVJ's Vinyl Zyme Gold does a much better job than AIVS. It's also a lot cheaper and can be bought in concentrate form and mixed with distilled water in varying levels of concentration. When I used AIVS on my record cleaning machin... | |
| Phono cartridge grading I've always wanted to hear the "base" of a cartridge. I'm sure it's much nicer than the "bass." | |
| Lawrence Audio I currently own the Violins. Superb speaker with incredible cabinet finishing. The ribbon tweeter extends to around 40khz. Bass is solid with good impact overall. I'm currently driving them with Rogue Audio Tempest III amplification in a second sy... | |
| JM Lab Nova Be or Eggleston andra 3 ? anyone? I much prefer the beryllium tweeter to the esotar tweeter. Regarding deep bass, if you have the right amplification, the Novas will go very deep indeed. | |
| Esoteric K01: What are the best settings for CD? The first thing that struck with me about the K-01 was how mammoth the soundstage was--wall to wall, front to back. It was giving my vinyl rig a real run for its money. | |
| Esoteric K01: What are the best settings for CD? Yup. Guido up there turned out to be right, but I came to the same conclusion not after a massive break in of that particular setting but after the break in of the other setting. I think using the K-01 over a period of time with one setting does p... | |
| Esoteric K01: What are the best settings for CD? I've just changed my settings on my player. As I reported above, I started with Slow Delay1 plus no upsampling. I became dissatisfied with the sound after awhile and I've now switched to Slow Delay2 with 4x upsampling. this combination currently s... | |
| Upgrades by Ezekiel Randy does good work and is a good dude. His religious proselytizing gets annoying at times, but he has a lot of integrity. I will say that his upgrade for my pioneer tuner involved the addition of Vampire RCAs and putting them in involved the rem... | |
| Esoteric K01: What are the best settings for CD? From my experience and in my system, Slow Delay 1 with no upsampling sounds best. It was also the preferred setting specified on Arthur Salvatore's site. I tried all sixteen combinations, and my result concurred with that of his reviewers. | |
| Purist speaker cables re-termination? The local dealer is not in the position of doing this. Only rely on a factory direct retermination. | |
| Focal Utopia Micro BE setup help I use the Utopia series Be speakers as well. In my experience, they image and stage better in narrower rooms by firing straight ahead without toe-in. i've experimented a lot with positioning, and I'm finding that the Cardas method of speaker place... | |
| Jm Lab Alto Utopia what kind of amplifier ? I was using the Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista 300 amps on my Altos, which I still have and need to moderately repair. I switched recently to the ASR Emitter II Exclusive, which drives the Altos much better overall, but they initially sounded too brig... | |
| The Worst Speaker you have ever heard. Dali Helicon | |
| Focal Scala or Diablos with subs? I think that if your speakers have to be up against the walls, you should probably stick with the monitors. Large floorstanders up that tight against the walls will certainly get boomy and you'll have a lot of trouble with image and staging. The S... | |
| Attention Esoteric CD/SACD Players Owners I use Purist Audio Design and I like them a great deal. |