avanti1960
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| Dynaudio vs. Focal - Bookshelfs - Help me Decide! heard the special 40s extensively and they sound metallic and edgy, vs the contour 20 which sound smooth as silk. shame you have to spend $5K for them. focals do absolutely nothing for me. none of them, but this is my developed preference in so... | |
| Recommended phono stage to go with McIntosh match the phono preamp to your target cartridge in terms of gain and loading options. match your target cartridge to your turntable tonearm in terms of system effective mass, cartridge compliance and calculated resonance frequency. getting these... | |
| Phono Preamp Recommendations Sutherland 20/20. I love mine and it is so transparent as to make other changes easily noticeable. Price hasn't changes since its introduction in 2011 I believe and it should be a $3K phono by rights. Stereophile class A and it sounds every bi... | |
| Will fine tune adjustments with protractor help with "brightness?" Of course the Technics engineers know what they are doing wth respect to tonearm geometry and alignment. However it is a proven fact that different flavors of alignment have different distortion characteristics over the arc of the record surfaces... | |
| What makes a speaker sound great at low volume? You may be barking up the wrong tree. HE speakers are specialized and have compromises that not everyone warms up to. All other speakers of normal to low efficiency will come alive at lower volume with proper amplification. Class D amplifiers t... | |
| Will fine tune adjustments with protractor help with "brightness?" @ericsch again, i just guessed that the mint protractor was lofgren because it has slightly more overhang than the technics gauge~ 2mm. if Yip's design is true stevenson, then technics is something different. Regardless the mint sounds better an... | |
| Will fine tune adjustments with protractor help with "brightness?" @erichsch i have read that technics tables use a stephensen alignment and assumed that the mint best tractor was lofgren because of the increased overhang compared to the technics gauge. whatever flavor either truly is, the mint alignment sounds ... | |
| Will fine tune adjustments with protractor help with "brightness?" brent,bummer about the cartridge, thankfully it wasnt a moving coil. | |
| Will fine tune adjustments with protractor help with "brightness?" @chakster The Technics alignment gauge does not make it as easy to be accurate with alignment as a precision protractor does. Especially sighting the cantilever to be parallel with the gauge because the gauge does not have any runway lines. I w... | |
| Recommended cork platter for my SL 1200 GR Technics TT the herbies way excellent II mat for technics , 4mm thichness, sounds great and will not collect static. | |
| Will fine tune adjustments with protractor help with "brightness?" brightness and MM cartridges can be a function of the capacitance in the phono cables from turntable to preamp, vertical tracking angle, vertical tracking force and the cartridge characteristics and break-in. it can also be affected by the alignm... | |
| Phono cable recommendations - high performance good value cable may seem ridiculous to the price perception proposition but i have not been able to find a phono cable (turntable to preamp) that sounds better than this one-The ART POP ($12 for 0.5 Meter)https://www.kabusa.com/frameset.htm?/wirewin.htm I have n... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... mine is for sale on a popular place. current bid 199, someone's going to get a steal. low hours and perfect. | |
| Is a GREAT turntable under $2000 possible??? hi brent, hope things are sounding great! just a few comments about some of your questions- some LPs can sound crackly even after being cleaned- but very few. if you have lots of LPs that sound noisy something in the cartridge setup might be off- ... | |
| New KEF Reference 5 speakers I listened extensively to the REF 1 (well broken in) and it was a big disappointment, especially since I loved the KEF LS50s. The REF 1 come off as metallic and un-natural. If the REF 5s are voiced similarly I can understand your hesitation. Th... |