yoyoyaya
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| Is it the gear or the ears? @wolf_garcia +1 to that. @OP - budget has nothing to do with whether people are happy with their hi fi system. I know people with ultra high end systems who are absolutely "music first" listeners and are not constantly chopping and changing. Equa... | |
| Turntable Quandry @OP - ideally you should upgrade both TT and Cartridge. A Technics SL-1200Gr2 would be a good choice at not crazy money. A Hana EL or SL would be a good cartridge. Depending on the state of the bearings in your old TT, you might want to check low ... | |
| Mac MA 352 vs Pass INT-60 @OP The Pass is a much better sounding amp than the Mac and I hope you will be very happy with it. Most of the heat it generates is via the heatsinks but you really should have a couple of inches at least of air circulation space above the top pla... | |
| Declare the correct value on the Customs form? What I'm still unclear about is whether duties and taxes were paid on the album when it was imported into the US in the first place - and what the seller valued the album at when they shipped it. | |
| Nearfield Low-Level Listening : New Speakers or EQ? Thoughts? @OP I don't think the placement per se is the cause of the issue you are experiencing. But it does seriously compromise soundstaging. Unfortunately, it also means that the Devore O series won't work as their front baffles are too wide for the avai... | |
| Nearfield Low-Level Listening : New Speakers or EQ? Thoughts? @OP. I have no experience of the Totems but it is certainly the case that certain speakers do not sound right at low volume levels and sensitivity measurements are not always a perfect guide to that. You could try something like a pair of DeVore O... | |
| Declare the correct value on the Customs form? @OP Did you pay duties on receipt of the album and if so, did the seller declare the full value, i.e the price you were paying them, when they exported the goods to the US? | |
| Would I be wasting my money to get a turntable? @OP If you don't already have a large record collection the answer is absolutely not. It's not just a question of whether the TT will be as good as your existing streaming system but also the opportunity coast. For what you will spend on the analo... | |
| Stereophile review of the new Wilson Watt/Puppy @OP. Mr Colloms has long been a fan of Naim equipment. As you can see in the review, he started listening to the W/P with his Naim 250 but couldn't drive them with it. If you are familiar with Naim type sound it will explain why Mr Collom's was sl... | |
| What should I look for when purchasing a quality album? @OP - Sorry for the delayed response, my computer was down when you posted previously. Regarding new records, yes, there is mould release agent in new pressings. And I don't know if it is inferior quality vinyl or manufacturing defects in the stam... | |
| Audiohifistore.com is a SCAM There was a scam hi fi equipment site purporting to operate out of Ireland a couple of years ago. They had an address published on their website but when I checked out the location on Google Maps, it was a brass plate operation - no physical prese... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS Where's Jason Bourne when you need him :)) | |
| What should I look for when purchasing a quality album? @OP - Invest in an ultrasonic record cleaning machine. Use streaming to identify recordings you like and then go tracking down the vinyl. I have heard vinyl recordings that don't sound good on CD but not vice versa. There are differences between d... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room @OP - the volume of your room does not indicate whether it will or will not benefit from acoustic treatment. Your room is bigger than a lot of the control rooms in small studios, which, if they are commercial, will be treated. Sound on Sound magaz... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room @OP - a lot of what advertised as bass traps are broadband absorbers that have some attenuation at lower frequencies but aren't optimised for that freqency range. If you look at Vicoustic or Gik's websites, you'll see cylindrical and triangular co... |