wrm57
Responses from wrm57
| Modular LP record storage suggestions Modding the Kallax, as others suggest, results in a stable unit. I screwed a long 2-in tall strip of wood across the middle of the openings on each row. This provides plenty of sheer support and a back-stop for LPs, too. QED. | |
| Getting a Divorce and can now buy floor standing speakers As others have suggested, Soundlabs and high-watt OTLs or solid state, or humungous horns with low-watt SETs. Either way, you’ll be in bliss. Permanently single, but in bliss. | |
| Do you prefer tall speakers @asvjerry , she puts up with 4 systems and a near-constant barrage of weird-ass jazz, so it’s the least I can do! 😄 | |
| Do you prefer tall speakers My wife is short. She likes speakers that are not taller than she is. I like my wife. Ergo, I like short speakers. | |
| What are you using to clean LP album covers? @lewm +1, same here. | |
| Tweaking Your Speaker Placement @tony1954 , perfect! Like aesthetic graph paper! | |
| Tweaking Your Speaker Placement Herbie’s Giant Gliders make it easy on hardwood. My flooring boards run parallel to the front wall, giving clear points of reference for front to back and toe in. I put a piece tape on the center axis to measure side to side placement. All three p... | |
| MoFi "Mobile Fidelity" Master Phono. @superhonestben I had essentially the same experience. I let it burn in for 100 hours using the Granite Audio inverted RIAA CD, as always, before I listened critically. Then I returned it. Like you say, nothing especially bad, just nothing much to... | |
| What preamp with both line stage and phono? +2 on the VAC recommendations. The upper models (with 12 db gain) all have essentially the same phono circuit (6 x 12ax7, transformer coupled with top Lundahls), albeit with varying refinements in execution. They are genuinely excellent phono stag... | |
| Solid state amp that tube fan can be happy with? Were I looking today my first stop would be Coda. That said, I’m a tube guy (with 5 tube amps) who lives happily with two SS class A amps for variety: a Plinius Sa-103 modded by Ralph Abramo at Plinius Repairs, and a 25 yr old Reference Line Silve... | |
| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! I suspect some of the LPs that I was able to revive were casualties of bad prior cleanings, rather than kludgey tone arms on changers which caused groove chew. Hi @whart , I completely agree. There’s a well-known vinyl store in Oakland CA that ... | |
| What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record? Play it—unless it’s warped, in which case I clean, flatten, and then play it. | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode +1 @ozzy62, you said it all. I’ve owned 4 amps switchable between triode and UL, still have 2, and have auditioned a few others in my systems. Each is better in UL. This is true on all 6 pairs of speakers that I currently own, ranging from 86db to... | |
| Streaming/DAC Upgrade I bought that Auralic G2.1 deal and I’m quite happy. It’s my third Auralic streamer/dac; the other two (Aries Mini + S-Booster LPS and an original Altair) are still playing in secondary systems. I love being able to control all three from my iPhon... | |
| Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all? I'm not sure my experience will be all that helpful but here goes. I have three Auralic streamers in three different systems: an Aries Mini plus S-Booster LPS, an original Altair, and an Altair G2.1. These were purchased over the course of some se... |