gundam91
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| Power conditioning for digital gear AND tube amp? The story on PurePower, from what I've read, is that there are now two companies claiming the right to the name. I think some disagreement happened in house, and the marketing guy left the company. He started his own operation selling units made i... | |
| Rack of Silence, how good is it for a Turntable ? It's hard to compare racks. But I've been using ROS racks under my entire system. I would say that the design lean towards lively, dynamic, and open sounding, especially if utilizing the "spring" upgrades to the reference level.All their footers, ... | |
| Graham Tone Arm/Orbe Turntable He is correct. The only Graham arm that will work is 2.2. Phantom is just too heavy. I currently use a SME V, but there are several owners that are very happy with Graham 2.2. I've been contemplating about adding a 2.2 as a second arm....I saw a p... | |
| dedicated power line for audio equipment I just rebuilt my house from scratch, added a dedicated listening/HT room as well.I have two 20A (w/ 10/2 romex) dedicated lines on the sidewall for the source, two 20A dedicated lines to the front for the amps, one 20A line for the A/V equipment,... | |
| Pass Aleph 5 vs. Pass XA 30.5 / 60.5 I still have my Aleph Os in my secondary system. I moved it to my primary system for a few weeks to try out these bookshelf speakers. As good as the Aleph was in those days, the X- and the XA- series are just in a different league all together.The... | |
| Consonance Opera Cyber 211 mods I have two headphone amps from Opera Consonance. It seems that in their design, they utilize the chassis as a conduit to channel ground from various parts to the ground connection on the powercord. One of the amps had developed some issue andvI ha... | |
| The Best Way to Clean Records They were at THE Show at Newport Beach last weekend. I am glad I didn't pick up anything from his stash.FrankC | |
| E&T spider rack knock offs - how bad are they? Unbelievable! What's next? Fake Symposium bases, fake BDR cones and platforms, fake Graham tonearms, fake Koetsu cartridges, fake PS audio AC receptacles.Stanwal, you were thinking of Solid-Tech racks, which I own...quite a few. I can assure you t... | |
| I got the USB DAC per everyone's sugguestion BUT.. Thanks Audioengr, for the confirmation and recommendation. I had started out using EAC to rip .WAV files into my network server. Later on, I used MS Media Player w/ error correction option turned on. I had a Cowon i5 portable player, and I could t... | |
| Shun Mook Record Weight I have the Harmonix TU-812 as well. On some music, it sounded pretty good, much more airy and clean on high frequencies. But on others, it seems to be taking away some of the lower frequencies. It had similar effect as the DIY African Ebony, but j... | |
| Cartridge for JA Michell Orbe Se with Technoarm Countingbackwards,Which version of the Graham 2.2 are you using? Does it have the Graham base or the SME base?FrankC | |
| Shun Mook Record Weight Just saw an ad in a Hong Kong audio mag, Audiotechnique, that there is a distributor in Hong Kong for Shun Mook products - www.wiwitubes.com. I know that Shun Mook was operated by a few guys from Hong Kong here in the SF Bay Area. But I also recal... | |
| Cartridge for JA Michell Orbe Se with Technoarm There has been many good feedbacks regarding this cart. I think you just need to make sure that the cart and the arm work well with each other. What is the gain on the Burmester? Check your manual to see if they have a recommended minimum output f... | |
| I got the USB DAC per everyone's sugguestion BUT.. Thanks for confirming, Timlub! I can't wait to get my system up and running.FrankC | |
| I got the USB DAC per everyone's sugguestion BUT.. Hi all, spent all night last night trying to find a specific discussion on this exact topic without any success. I have a Benchmark DAC-1 USB and it will take 24/192 signal. So I have downloaded some 24/192, 24/176 files from 2L and dCS. The compu... |