williewonka
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| Have you ever tried a pair of speakers and said this Is the last thing I will ever need. I used to live in Richmond Hill, Ontario and there were three stores that carried high end systems within a 30 minute drive.When I was bored, i’d go around to them all and try systems and speakers just to get an appreciation of how good my system ... | |
| Cartridge for Rega Planar 3? Greg makes a valid point, but if the Denon DL103 is a little low on the output side, consider the Denon DL110 - another top performer. Should be a great match for the Mani, but you will need to add a spacer to increase the mass to be compatible wi... | |
| Cartridge for Rega Planar 3? Mtrot - from reading your posts - you have a MM input and would like to use it.But having been down that route, I would still recommend you to consider the Schiit Mani phono stage. It is more likely to provide much better SQ and give you full MC c... | |
| Cartridge for Rega Planar 3? Erichsh - .... Willie, did you have to shim your Rega arm for the Denon DL103? if you are referring to shims under the arm post to adjust the VTA...If I recall correctly, I already had shims under the arm post for the previous cartridge.It's pre... | |
| Cartridge for Rega Planar 3? I’ve tried several MM carts over the years on my Rega, including one of the Rega offerings and compared to even my stock Denon DL103 MC cartridge, they paled in comparison.I switched around 5 years ago to a Denon DL103 MC cart and the improvement ... | |
| $500 USB cable First - the function of the USB cable depends on what component it is plugged into.1. If the component DOES NOT utilize he power from the USB port, then all the cable is doing is passing data - better quality conductors will improve sound quality2... | |
| Do you find battery supplies inferior to well designed power supplies? Battery supplies are no different from mains supplies when it comes to being able to provide sufficient "power" to handle the most demanding transient spikes.Where battery supplies tend to fail is in theri ability to deliver enough current.If they... | |
| interconnects vs speaker cables vs power cords - which make the biggest difference? WRT to Power cables - I have observed that the components in my system with the "lowest quality" power supplies tend to benefit more from a power cable upgrade than components having a higher quality power supplye.g. - my Bifrost DAC performed no... | |
| Should I upgrade to XLR interconnects? SJTM - Just an FYI - a friend that had an Ayre system with balanced IC’s throughout.As an experiment, he replaced the Kimber Kable silver XLR's between the DAC and the amp with my my KLE Innovations gZero3 single ended IC’s .He found the the singl... | |
| Anticables Madavid0 - the two things in your system that may be SQ bottleneck...The generic HDMI cables - I use Belkin cables and they outperform the other cables I've triedThe USB cable - I used the following cable.http://www.ebay.com/itm/Power-supply-and-U... | |
| Rega and ProAc: Bad? I visited a high end audio store and listened to a pair of $35k horns in a 70k (in total) systemThey sounded awful - out of focus sound stage - lacking in bass - so I suggested the sales person check the polarity of the speaker cables.Yes - they w... | |
| Anticables I would like to hear what gear and other cables you are using - asMitch4t requested. madavid0, please tell us what kind of equipment you are running.Amp?Preamp?Speakers?Cd player?DAC?Turntable?Cartridge?Phono preamp? And add to that list...- Power... | |
| Getting good sound from MacBook via DAC. Jetmek - I had an iMac connected to a V-link192 via USB, connected to a "tricked out" Bifrost DAC and streaming content from a NAS drive. Sound quality was great! But...I had to install Audirvana to bypass all the silliness that Apple deems necess... | |
| Power cord replacement suggestions I've found that (in general) components that have lower quality power supplies can show more discernible improvements than those with extremely high quality power supplies.Today's electronics are capable of pretty good resolution, but the more "co... | |
| Cartridge Recommendation +1 on the Soundsmith Carts - I have the Denon DL103 with the Contact Line profile.I found the MINT Best Tractor to provide the most accurate alignment and best perfromance for this profile. Much more accurate than the free tractors on the web.This... |