wspohn
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| New turntable: TW or Obama? Keep the arm - hard to better it.Upgrade the table to current model - costs a few thou but have heard very good things about it.I have a series 1 Cosmos with the same arm on it and have been toying with an upgrade (only problem is that it is in my... | |
| What phono preamp are you using? Main system uses a Koetsu Urushi/SME V/ VPI TNT V into a Vendetta SCP2D.Second system uses a Lyra Clavis/SME V/ Sota Cosmos/ into a Conrad Johnson Premier 15You can pay ridiculous money for a phono stage today, but if you look around there are som... | |
| If you don't have a wide sweet spot, are you really an audiophile? When we were setting up my dual purpose room for audio and video (only overlap being the main speakers) using some very nice computer analytics as well as our ears, we found that my main speakers (*large Wilsons) nailed the centre image even bette... | |
| Why would anyone want class AB amp when class A always sounds better ? Class A sound better? No, lots of factors to consider. You have first of all assumed Class A sounds better. Not always true. Exactly. I own four Class A amps so obviously like what they offer (aside from the heat and the electric bill), but... | |
| WILSON AUDIO.....BIG NAME, BIG PRICE........ARE THEY THAT GOOD? Pretty hard to advise on buying speakers without you auditioning them, and if you can audition them, you won't need anyone's advice.Having said that, I was never a huge fan of the Watt/Puppy in early iterations and haven't heard the 8s so can't he... | |
| Most rooms don’t need acoustical treatment. Not snake oil, but many people buy stuff that they may not need, blind and expect miracles.The only way to really assess a listening room is to have someone with the gear and software they need come and test the room, preferably with all the furni... | |
| Apogee Scintilla Power If you ever get a chance to audition the Classe DR3 VHC I mentioned earlier in the thread, do so (hard to find as less than 200 made). The pair I have were driving the heck out of Scintillas when I bought the amps.Run in stereo they put out 40 wat... | |
| If your were to assemble a vintage system ? Pretty easy (depending on what you mean by vintage).Pair of Spics TC50s driven by a NAD 3020 or Audiolab 8000A.Source could be an old Thorens TD-124 or a Rega RP1 or RP4. | |
| If you don't have a wide sweet spot, are you really an audiophile? No big deal. I carefully choose my seats for the symphony so I am in the sweet spot for the particular room, and I choose a optimal seating position in my listening room. I don't walk around when listening so what does it matter how wide the swe... | |
| CD or Streaming... am I missing out? From the point of view of cost, if you happen to own thousands of CDs and you don't mind ripping them to a server, all it costs you is time (I did mine while watching TV in the evenings) rather than fees for a music service (I ripped well over 400... | |
| Best cost no object tube phono I don't think that you want a tube phono stage for great sound. In fact I run an amplification set up that is entirely tubes, but use a solid state phono stage simply because it is better than any tube phono stage I have heard. (my tube phono sta... | |
| Open Letter To REL, SVS, Hsu, etc., et al I think the original question is a valid one, but including various manufacturer names in the thread title without checking whether they provided what was being referenced or not was an error. Failing to do a bit of homework doesn't detract from t... | |
| Acoustic treatment question: do you agree with Dennis Foley that $46k to $65k is required? It certainly doesn't have to cost that much to treat a room.I was lucky enough to have a friend whose profession is building home theatre spaces, and he owns many thousands of dollars worth of audio instrumentation and software and he was kind eno... | |
| Audio Lessons Learned - post your best advice for the newer members! 1 - if you don't know what music sounds like in person, before you start on your system, attend some live music performances - as many as necessary to embed the idea of what it sounds like.2 - accept that it is almost impossible to exactly replica... | |
| what are some of best tonearms you own or experience with. I also vote for the SME V - I use them on both of my tables. The Grahams are also excellent, and at the lower end some of the Regas give very good value .I have played around with things like the Mission Mechanic (good luck finding one) which wer... |