yeti42
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| How deadly is transformer hummm... Naim amps have a reputation for humming too. I’ve had a couple of complete system from them and some transformers have hummed whilst others haven’t. A couple have even stopped humming after a while but it’s never done any of them or the music any ... | |
| Simaudio Moon 600i v2 VS Naim Supernait 3 for Dyanudio C20s So you’ve used the services of a couple of dealers to hear the amps but still can’t make up your mind and have no intention of buying from either whichever you decide? | |
| Path of signal from turn table to speaker The CXA81 contains a built in DAC, it will take a digital input and convert it to analogue, the amplification is in the analogue domain. There are also other purely analogue inputs that will accept a line level analogue signal such as that put out... | |
| Path of signal from turn table to speaker There are turntables with inbuilt ADCs and a USB output but these are generally not taken seriously. There are also phono pre amps that digitise, I think Linn have one and Devialet do this too, the wisdom of doing so is debatable. Most modern reco... | |
| New Turntable Direction A friend was a long term Linn fan and had got up to a Radikal but still with an Aro holding his Ortofon Cadenza Bronze. Next thing I knew he’s sold it all and was extolling his new Well Tempered Versalex, admittedly with a DV DRT XV1t. The Versal... | |
| Anybody want a laugh? SG110D-08 is a Cisco small business model, £56 on Amazon so not an audiophile model. just a bit of enterprise on E bay. | |
| ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE QUESTION TO ANSWER ... I’m going to take disc 12 of the Sandy Denny 19 CD box set. It’s of early home demonstration tracks and the recordings are very basic and sometimes distorted but if handled well the importance of the recording quality fades behind the emotion that... | |
| Focal sopra 2/Gryphon Diablo 300 not good match I had a similar experience with some lesser Focals (profile 918) a few years ago. I picked them in a shop demo room over everything else I heard that day and I’d even taken my own amp and CD player in for the demo. Got the Focals home on loan for ... | |
| Seeking advice on Speakers that create an intimate 2 channel listening experience Logans ask quite a lot of the amp, Quads might be easier to match, particularly the original model as long as you don’t need loud.On another tack the Eclipse TD712zMK2 single driver speaker has its own unique style, another that has limited loudne... | |
| Ultrasonic: should I do it? Another Degritter here, I tried an Audiodesk but was expecting too much at the time as it didn’t clean one of my test records down to 17D3 depth, my cartridge at the time and having a particularly fine microridge stylus and then read I about the ... | |
| Gender bender Starless, original by King Crimson, cover by The Unthanks on their album Last. OK maybe not better but nevertheless an interesting alternative take on a classic. | |
| Is there an ideal (ish) cartridge output? The most noticeable noise I get when replaying vinyl is from the record surface, the phonostage noise doesn’t seem to intrude. I looked up the specs for my phonostage and it claims a SNR of 82dB for a 0.5mV output and a gain of 64dB. I’m actually ... | |
| 70’s rock pressings. Witch equipment deserve? You want something that can carry a rhythm but get that right and the it’s worth it. The recent Well Tempereds or Regas fit the bill, Linn as well if you don’t mind spending. I’m not as convinced by the Technics as some but I’ve only heard one (a ... | |
| What, in your system, have you owned the longest? A NAD 4020A tuner, bought new in 1981. | |
| Degritter brand ultrasonic record cleaner I’ve been using a Degritter for about a week. Some of my older albums had some mould growth and it didn’t entirely remove that, even on heavy, so an enzyme cleaner and my existing VPI are still required. Apart from mould the Degritter seems to be ... |