yoyoyaya
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| Best Classical Labels for Sound I've always found Philips and Decca's 1970s recordings to be good. | |
| 300 Watt Tube Monoblocks Get a pair of Class A transistor amps. With the poor quality of modern power tubes, chasing failures in 16 or so tubes is a sure recipe for misery. | |
| If Bi-Wiring is an option, should I choose Bi-wiring over single banana with free jumpers As has been said several times above - one set of cables and same cable jumpers. One quality cable is better than two inferior ones. | |
| Best $10-15K bookshelf speaker? I generally don't mention things I haven't personal experience of, but the Thrax Siren sounds like a potentially excellent speaker in that price range. | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? @dwette - yes. I am very familiar with all of Clearaudio's lineup. If you have the opportunity, try to get to listen to the same combination with the Unity v the Universal - there is a significant difference. | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? @lewm, to supplement what dwette says above, the Master Innovation upgrade is pretty close to buying a second Innovation turntable with all of the parts count that goes with that and that is what the price reflects. The new Clearaudio Unity arm i... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade Fans of the Who - and Tommy, in particular - may have a rather different interpretation of the term "fiddle". Separately, the LP12 was also designed with undamped suspension - SME and modern Oracles have silicone damping for their suspensions. | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @daveyf. I am fully aware that the newer LP 12s are much better built in terms of materials and manufacturing tolerances. Fair point, however. | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade Linn and its dealers cultivated a mythology about the need for "fettling" of the LP12. God knows, I fettled enough of them to know, and to curse why the damn thing was so badly designed/toleranced in the first place. | |
| Are EL34 based amps more musical than KT series based ? Or it's purely a matter of design? Something from the guitar amp world. EL 34s have a different distortion signature to 6L6s - an evolved KT66. 34s clip more quickly but have a smoother distortion - think of a Marshall stack v a Fender Twin Reverb. However, we use Marshalls becaus... | |
| Perhaps the most annoying myth in audio of 2025? Talking about Loudness! The OP is confusing the use of volume in a/b demonstrations (where listeners will often prefer a subtly louder replay of a track) with listening levels in general. I have never seen in print or heard an assertion that a majority of people prefer ... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @daveyf Even if Linn have the cnc machinery, it probably isn't worth their while tying up a machine making those plinths given the volumes involved. More generally, very few audiophile hi fi manufacturers are vertically integrated - i.e make every... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @daveyf - btw, that price I quoted includes 20 percent EU sales tax! | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade In Europe, a Clearaudio Innovation is under €11,000. That gets you two panzerholz/alu chassis, plus ceramic magnetic bearing, stainless/POM platter etc. | |
| I should start with speakers. This I know. I’d like to establish a new system. @OP. If you don't already have the other system components, you should not start with speakers. You should start with the entire system. The speaker-amplifier interface is especially important because your room size, listening position, preferred ... |