dodgealum
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| Anyone Heard the New Soundsmith Sussurro Cartridge I heard it at Soundsmith following an audition of "The Voice". The Serioso (sp?) was WAY better. In fact, it made "The Voice" sound pretty bad by comparison. It should, it costs three times as much. Not sure how it would stack up against similarly... | |
| Harbeth Compact 7s with Mcintosh MC225? You can really drive the C7's with ANYTHING and they will sound great. In my experience, 100-150 watts of solid state power is really ideal but there is a lot of wiggle room with these speakers and you will get really good results with many differ... | |
| Vinyl Front End Upgrade All: Thanks for the suggestions. I've emailed for further information on the Best Tractor. I've always felt uneasy about the VPI jig's reliance on the cartridge body as a visual reference and the Best Tractor appears to correct this by allowing al... | |
| Vinyl Front End Upgrade Elinor: I agree that $3K is not a lot of money when we're talking cartridge and phonostage combined--even used. But I'm hesitant to spend much more given the fact that all would be preceded by a Scout/JMW9, which is stock except for the 300rpm mot... | |
| Vinyl Front End Upgrade Thanks everyone so far. While the phonostage recommendations are helpful I'm really trying to think of this as a phono playback system and purchase a cartridge and phonostage that are particularly well suited together. I'd really be interested in ... | |
| Hybrid Audio Research? The SD135 is the latest model solid state power amp from ARC. I am not aware of a new hybrid model SD135 and doubt ARC would release a product of completely different design using the same model number as it would completely confuse everyone. As t... | |
| ARC vs LFD Have you considered using one of ARC's solid state amps with your ARC tube preamp? I ran an SP16 into both a 100.2 and later a 150.2 driving a pair of Harbeth Compact 7's with good results. The 100.2 sounded better but used more energy and gave of... | |
| Switch from Parasound JC-1 to Bel Canto Ref 1000? I would recommend trying the Bel Canto's in your system not only because this is the only true way to decide which set of monos works best in your application but also because you would gain some genuine insight into how amplifiers of similar spec... | |
| Daedalus Rrsclyde--glad to hear you are enjoying the DA-RMa's. I've had my DA-1.1's for over a year now and the love affair continues. Lou--I was intrigued by your comparison of the different models since I did not get a chance to comparison shop within th... | |
| Mothership - The Inspiration The problem is you started at the top. Like someone without any knowledge of what two channel stereo can do walking into a demo of a $250K system and then wondering what can I get that sounds like that for $3K. Many of the bands folks have listed ... | |
| Daedalus In case people have not seen it there is a nice review of the DA-RMa posted at Stereotimes. The reviewer purchased the pair--no better endorsement in my view. | |
| Daedalus "it was striking how the Ulysses' provided a window on what was happening upstream. The invidual characteristics of the amplifiers were easy to discern". Jazdoc: I couldn't agree more. In the past six months I've upgraded my preamp (from an Audio ... | |
| Music or Lyrics? This is something my wife and I go back and forth about. She is a words person and is much more interested in what the songwriter has to say. I'm more about the music and sometimes don't know/care what message the song is sending. On the otherhand... | |
| Dedicated phono-pre for MM only? This question is something I tried to get at in a prior post. I, too, am interested in hearing about really top flight phono preamps that are designed for high output coils or moving magnet designs. The benefits would be analagous (sp?) to going w... | |
| Daedalus Michael: Your membership needs to be updated! When are the new DA-1.1's arriving? |