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| Living Voice for Shindo? A friend of mine has LV speakers (I think OBX's) as a 2nd speaker pair for a smaller room. He used to have a Montille as well and now uses them part time along with a Altec Valencia coupled with a 10W Cortese. His opinion, as far as I interpret hi... | |
| Cary 805s or Atma Sphere M60s? I had M60's MKIII for a couple of weeks. Partnered with Cabasse Iroise 500 speakers (4Ohm, 91 db) often referred as tube friendly. First the clarity of these amps where impressive but over longer time I missed body / substance and the "it's just r... | |
| Tubes for Shindo Aurieges L I have tried several brands of NOS tubes in my Shindo Monbrison and they all had different characters. So why don't tube roll and be delighted to "taste" the differences between the different tubes. In a good system it should rather be fun than st... | |
| EMT 297 or 309 new produktion vs. Shindo Meursault I have the EMT myself and can give only 2nd hand information regards the comparison, of a friend who has the Mersault and has listened to both. As far as I remember, he said that the EMT has a bit more drama and is a little more involving. In the ... | |
| Shindo Monbrison balance issue? The potentiometers Shindo uses are most likely one puzzle piece which contribute to the "Shindo sound". Also the well known ALPS Pots can have some imbalance in their lower range, one more one less...+/- 10 or 20 % tolerance are not untypical for ... | |
| Shindo Monbrison balance issue? I strictly would use a power amp with input volume potentiometers on a Shindo preamp. Since Shindo preamps usually have a very high output, combinations with power amps without volume potentiometers can be a mismatch since you don't come up in the... | |
| VAC amp and Shindo Pre Hi...my answer might be a little late...I run a VAC PA60 with a Shindo Mazeris Bellevus preamp (something like a older version of the Monbrison, old chassis version). This combination is very nice. The one thing you have to take care of is that th... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Dear Raul,"Dear Ron: As I posted I made a little of research on your audio items just to " imagine " what are you hearing but for what you told here your music/sound reproduction is far from what I can " imagine ", good."To this posting I can only... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Dear Raul,"I prefer like you that an audio system be " emotional " ( just like music is. )but I like at the same time that have at least to other " vitues " : neutrality ( not analytical ) and " credible " whole tonal balance from top to bottom."T... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Dear Raul,"There are two areas ( frequency extremes range ) where the SUT degradation are totally audible ( very special on bass. )"I experienced this also in comparison with my Gryphon Phonostage which had a deeper bass than some transformers via... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Dear Raul,"well you don't know every one and certainly not the best integrated units"sure my notes are made out of my experiences and I cannot have tried ALL high class units. The mentioned ones have been the ones I was living with for a longer ti... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Dear Dougdeacon,I havnt said that all solid state mc stages are bad, Im sure that there are a lot of good sounding units out there. I was really happy with my former Gryphon Orestes which was solid state. But besides things like dynamic, resolutio... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? A lot of people never heard a high class step up transformer when they talk that transformers are no good...listen to a Kondo KSL-SFz and into a high class tube phono stage in an appropriate set up and they will forget about their high end solid s... | |
| Fidelity Research FR66 You might want to look at topclassaudio.com under "used" product.If they have them they usually sell them for far more...actually they sell a Fidelity Research FR-66S for >6000$Im sure that this will sell soon (somewhere to asia ;)) | |
| Ortofon SPU Synergy The SPU G has a "stream lined" body which makes alignment, VTA...less easy than a regular cartridge with rectangular body shape. For instance, it is harder to tell if the body of the SPU G is parallel with the lines one the alignment tool than wit... |