wrm57
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| Manley remote control users experience I've used the remote on my Steelhead and found it gradual enough for fine adjustments. I'm not sure if the Shrimp has the same system but I think it does--a motorized pot with a large phenolic knob. OTOH, I have a Stringray II that uses a electron... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? Mulveling and Alonski,Have you guys checked out the Miyajima Kansui? Like the Bronze and Kontra C, it uses an aluminum cantilever with an advanced stylus shape, in this case Shibata. The Kansui has great slam and a liquid, dimensional midrange you... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? Alon, that's a great recommendation for the Bronze and confirms what I'd imagined. The Replicant 100 stylus, of which I'm a big fan, on an aluminum cantilever suggests exactly what you describe--great detail combined with lots of body and tonal ri... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? I recommend calling VAC to find out about the differences between the RenIII and SigIIa phono stages. I might be wrong, but I think the line stages themselves are pretty different, with the SigIIa being lower gain. Another question for VAC. And as... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? Loading varies with the phono stage, the overall system, and one's taste, of course. And like anything in vinyl, it can always be optimized by fine changes, IMO. Whether one really needs to is another question. Playing with this VAC, I find change... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? As Clio09 said, the K&K Maxxed Out is terrific, especially at its price point. I owned one before I got the Manley. It's a little leaner but does everything well and is very flexible. Kevin Carter is a prince. The Zesto is also supposed to be ... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? Alonksi,I've come to prefer the VAC phono but it's really a matter of splitting hairs and I wouldn't say the VAC is "better" than the Manley. In some ways, like dynamics, the Manley brings more. The VAC is a little more organic. Different presenta... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? From what Brent at VAC told me, their stand-alone phonostage will be a two-box, four-input affair retailing for around the price of a current Sig mk IIa preamp without the phono option, so it'll be pricey. It will integrate into the Sig mk IIa as ... | |
| PMC FB1i's Congrats on your PMCs, a great and undersung brand. I'm extremely happy with Acoustic Zen speaker cables on my IB2i, which are tri-wired with Holograms on the woofers and Satori shotgun bi-wires on the mids and tweets. Having experimented with sil... | |
| Recommend a Tube Pre & SS Amp Combo The new Bryston SST2 amps are really nice--powerful, transparent, sonically balanced, grain-free--and have excellent synergy with VAC (especially the top models that are lower gain) and Aesthetix (especially Calypso Sig) preamps. You'll have to mi... | |
| Class A amplifiers - which are considered the best Reference Line Silver Signature from the late '90s. 100 watts into 8 ohms, doubles all the way down to 2 ohm loads. Designed for passive preamps and runs hot, so you have to be okay with those features. Top quality internal components. Built to la... | |
| Ads 1290's I paid $425 in a local sale six years ago and thought it a good deal. If they're near-mint, including the grills, jump on them. | |
| ANY EXPERIANCE WITH PASS LABS AND MONTANA EPS2? Hi John,Are you using them with the spikes? I found them to warm up considerably when placed flat on the floor (concrete slab, in my case, covered with linoleum) but the imaging suffered and the bass bloated a bit. I do like the big, screw-in spik... | |
| ANY EXPERIANCE WITH PASS LABS AND MONTANA EPS2? I had a somewhat different experience than other posters when I owned these speakers. I liked them quite a bit and thought they did most things very well, but I also found them to need power in order to fill in the low frequencies. At first I used... | |
| High grade tube pre with digital display I'm not sure it's the equal of all that have been suggested but it fits your bill: Aesthetix Calypso Signature. |