fsonicsmith
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| Spendor D7.2 Pairing - First Watt F8 How loud do you listen in how large a room? (I’d recommend you use a meter or phone app to determine your listening level as one person’s "moderate" volume may be another’s "loud" or "soft".) If you are a 90 dB or 100 dB volume listener or using... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project @fsonicsmith I thought about aftermarket bearing and platter but my dealer suggested that I should hear ‘stock’ 301 first and then start tweaking the TT with aftermarket parts. The upgrade like bearing appears to be a no brainer. I do not know... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project I think most bearing are about the same size. the Shindo is very large. There is a stock v Shindo picture in my virtual system The Classic HiFi UK brass 301 bearing is also much larger, perhaps not as large but close and it is built to ha... | |
| Searching for a little more warmth I love my O/93's but your room is much larger than mine If you go with Devores (not "DeVores") my suggestion would be to go with the 96's and use Auditorium 23 speaker cables. Room placement is everything with Devores. They are not that picky but ... | |
| Stereophile review of the $30,000 tekton speakers @dayglow Speakers are the most flawed of all components. When building a system the electronics will mostly determine the potential of the speaker. An example is a Polk L600 at $3k with Burmester electronics will likely out perform a Magico A3 ... | |
| Stereophile review of the $30,000 tekton speakers In my view Tekton selling a $16,000 Moab with BE drivers and a $30,000 PA system is similar to when Morrow was featuring $12,000 interconnects prominently on the front page of the A-gon market page-an absurd desire to build prestige based upon an ... | |
| Mint Protractor. A Pretty Nice Alignment Tool I ordered two Mints from Yip way back in the day when I was using VPI decks. As Raul has noted, P-S was a critical measurement for Yip. He would not provide his custom protractor without it. He also needed to know the ID of the tonearm. Now that ... | |
| Stereophile review of the $30,000 tekton speakers But hey, the shipping is free! | |
| Garrard 301 - Project What I have been trying to say, particularly with my Harbeth speaker enclosure analogy, is that in my very humble opinion trying to make a 301 sound "airy, transparent, neutral, fast" et al is trying to turn the 301 into something that it is not. ... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project I have 3 TT s in PA slate and am very pleased with performance but I did not sample a wide variety of materials so would not claim slate is absolutely the best. So what do you prefer, fsonic? Hi Lewm. I would love to claim that I have tried a s... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project Slate is not optimum. Sorry but just true. Agree that having a concrete slab floor is preferable to being over a basement with floor joists. But most of us don't get to design our houses and listening rooms (though in my case I did) and many of ... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project Thanks for the mention lalitk. As the photos in my profile show, I favor a large plinth, as large in all three dimensions as your rack can accommodate. Forgetting about any thought process that a massive plinth absorbs vibration, the real estate ... | |
| Anyone tried Devore o/93 with Sugden a21 As I type I am listening to my O/93's with an ARC Ref 150SE (160 beautiful tube watts) and they sound mesmerizing. It is emphatically false that you need to worry about having too much power for a given loudspeaker so long as gain is correct. That... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms Why do so many cartridge manufacturers and after market modders (e.g. Zu) offer different cartridge shells? If certain pundits in this thread were correct that a tonearm can only be neutral or degrade the sound than what is happening when the wood... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms @mijostyn : " A tonearm can not improve sound quality. it can only degrade it. " I already posted something similar not only with tonearms but with other audio items and obviously that I'm in agree totally with you.Well the best that... |