westcoastaudiophile
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| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @mglik "What is the “World’s Best Cartridge?” - "best" does not exist! :-) There are good carts, fancy ones, to impress, professional-robust, and tuned for specific vinyl, etc. "cartridge and a speaker, by far, contribute the most to SQ.” SQ st... | |
| Cartridge recommendations try to find Audio Technica AT-ML170 or AT-ML180 used in good condition. I have tried (too) many AT carts, including 160ML, 150MLX, AT24, ART7, ART9, and recently found as ML170 beats most, and does sound very transparent and “airy”. I run ML170 a... | |
| What’s Voodoo power cords signature sounding? @carlsbad +1 the best post on the topic! would be cool to see posts on "blind test" results from ppl who "can hear power cables". | |
| Power Cables - Stock vs. Budget "to maximize my system's potential " good luck! | |
| Power Cables - Stock vs. Budget "Considering upgrading my stock power cords" is there any specific problem, you’ve identified, with stock cables? | |
| How good does my system have to be to realize an improvement with cables? "If you bought your gear at WalMart” - you can get good-n-bad gears everywhere these days. nice and therefore expensive cables are just “nice”, not necessarily improving anything technically. I upgraded cables to make my whole system to be elegan... | |
| Accuphase dac 60 "In my opinion, AKM is sonically superior to ESS" agreed 100%, the best DAC I have is dual AK4499EQ design with class A discrete bal/unbal outputs | |
| Upgrading @jemmer01 what was the length of your speaker cables? also, what pre/amp/spkrs do you have? | |
| New Dedicated Line - Almost No improvement +1 @mijostyn with unlimited product price target I can design power module for pre/amp/etc to take care of all possible AC power supply issues affecting SQ | |
| Phono stage options - balanced with XLR both input and output... Teac PE-505 | |
| 100V Accuphase/Luxman with transformer?? there is no need for sd transformer for accuphase, those can be switched easily internally to US/EU voltages. | |
| S/N ratio Balanced input vs. Unbalanced input since hiss is not volume cntrl dependent, you may deal with EMI issue. adding "Cable Clamp Clip RFI EMI EMC Noise Filters “ to analog bal/unbal cable, close to the amp inputs, sometimes helps. | |
| accuphase a36 vs p4500 A48 consumes 180w idle, while P4500 “only” 62W.. thats the main reason most of time I use P4500. | |
| Dynaudio - Made in China vs Denmark If the concern is a resale value in the future, it could be the issue, because for sure there will be more China originated speakers than made in Denmark ones. Floor / display pair should have discount, you may try to negotiate. I’ve seen very g... | |
| What cause tweeters hiss ? @auronthas have you tried another DAC? Using in my sys Gustard A-22 DAC, which has discrete ckt sound path, I think it is class-a, no op-amp ICs, all noise incl. hiss I had with previous DACs disappeared, dead silent! |