yogiboy
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| Mixing 4 and 8 ohm speakers The center channel is a separate amp. You are not mixing the impedance with the main speakers. You won't have any problem. | |
| Advice on phono pre Check out Quicksilver Audio! I have the older model and I think it is outstanding ! IMO,nothing like tubes in a phono preamp. | |
| Getting the Upgrade Bug Again Check out Quicksilver gear! | |
| Cartridge/arm matching You should get a test record. I use the Shure Era 4 obstacle course(about 20 bucks on Ebay). It has a test for tone arm resonance to test your arm and cartridge compatibility. You can also get a Technics 3 gram headshell weight,if you need to add ... | |
| Parasound halo JC2 what a joke No pre amp should get that hot. Something is drastically wrong. You should ship it back to the company to have it checked out before you do further damage! It is better to be safe than sorry! | |
| Purpose of Dome on Tweeter... Tweeters come in many types: Cone,Dome,Horn,Ribbon,Electrostatic,etc.Why would the factory push in the Dome?Would you buy a watch with no lens?Like Mofi states,it's the design. | |
| For VPI Unipivot Owners, do you use antiskating? Sringreen, Maybe some day the anti anti-skaters and the anti-skaters will live in harmony together and the world will be a better place! | |
| JC1 upgrade to Lamm M2.2 or dartzeel 108B or Ayre? Harbeths better with SS? Not my experience! | |
| Parasound halo JC2 what a joke Glue? That must be real crap! I can't blame you for being pissed off! | |
| pairing 4 ohm speakers with 8 ohm speakers You are trying to do too much with too little. Since the Luxman has pre-out jacks,you should get a separate amp to drive the rear speakers. Another option is to get an AV receiver that includes a separate amp for rear channel operation. Why take t... | |
| What to pair with stacked Large Advents Since you have Advents, the Baby Advent should be a good match. | |
| First Turntable Advice Check out the SOTA tables! | |
| For VPI Unipivot Owners, do you use antiskating? Stringreen--- What can I say? Soundsmith the cartridge retipper is not correct? It works for me with my SME arm.Maybe the VPI is different! | |
| For VPI Unipivot Owners, do you use antiskating? Bill-Peter Ledermann of Soundsmith fame ,had an article about anti-skating. He said that almost every re-tip he would do ,the cartridge would be worn real bad on one side due to wrong anti-skating. He used the blank portion on the LP. He said you ... | |
| For VPI Unipivot Owners, do you use antiskating? Correct anti-skating adjustment is essential to any type of tonearm used.Get yourself a one sided record which is blank with no grooves on one side. I use a Donna Summer Disco Casablanca label that you can get on Ebay for less than ten bucks.When ... |