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| Please Recommend Cable Between Innuos Zen Mk 3 and Merason Frerot DAC Supra USB cable, the most you can afford. | |
| Notice That There Are Not Many Survivors of the MC from the early 19080's or so? Like some other members here, most of my cartridges are of the 'vintage' variety, including MCs. Below are the notable ones. Coral MC-8X series - mine have the Beryllium cantilevers Dynavector Karat23'C' - which in my case has a cactus cantil... | |
| Vinyl vs Streaming Several things to take into account. My most recent comparisons brought to light that, for me, a tube phonostage and an R2R DAC are quite comparable, but then it comes down to preference in taste. The RIAA EQ sound from vinyl produces quite a di... | |
| What is a bad recording? For those who like non-amplified, acoustic music, bluegrass is an option. Alison Kraus and Union Station is a perfect example. Their "Live!" album is particularly well done. I will grant you that many male bluegrass singers have too much twang ... | |
| What is a bad recording? Chicago II is notoriously known to be a bad recording, or more specially, poorly mastered. "Make Me Smile" and "24 or 6 to 4" are two specific tracks. There are a couple of remixes that sound better, but even with those, you can still hear limit... | |
| Has anybody never been able to solve a hum static problem with a phono pre amp? I've had RFI issues with a few phonostages. Ironically, one was an original Schiit Mani; supposedly they fixed that with the Mani 2; the other was a Lehmann Silver Cube, which was a real disappointment for a unit at that price. I believe the roo... | |
| Open Reel Curious I inherited a lot of vintage audio gear from my dad, including over a dozen RTR tape decks...and fortunately, some tape to go with them. I've gone through most of the decks to some degree - a few pretty nice ones in the bunch, although no Revox o... | |
| Any modern rock recommendations? It can be tough nowadays since so much new 'rock' is 'indie rock', or 'singer/songwriter' stuff. But, I think even back in the 70's, etc., it varied quite a bit. You mentioned Steely Dan and AC/DC in the same list, but boy, those are quite diffe... | |
| Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps I have a DNA-225 that has a transformer hum, which (I think) is also seeping into the audio signal (i.e., coming through the speakers). This model does not appear to be subject to the troubled, double-sided input board issue. But, I recall readi... | |
| New Steely Dan Aja Very interesting! High praise, and actually cheaper than the CISCO pressings, so...I have placed my order IMO, this album (and some others from Steely Dan) are almost over-produced, so getting a good version can be difficult to find. Too much ... | |
| Did anyone return a PSAudio Powerplant? Why? I tried a PSA Stellar PowerPlant 3, but eventually sold it. I actually had an entire PSA Stellar stack. Anyway, I was looking for AC mains noise reduction, which the PP3 did not provide (as already mentioned by others here), so I let it go. Wha... | |
| New Steely Dan Aja The CISCO pressing has been a reference for many folks, so would be interesting to compare this new one to a CISCO. | |
| Your Ultimate Phono Preamp: Which One Would You Choose? https://forum.audiogon.com/posts/2698116 Seems similar to the Parks Audio Puffin. | |
| Your Ultimate Phono Preamp: Which One Would You Choose? I've tried several phonostages in the $6K and under class. I would say my current favorite is the CODA 06X FET, with the Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista Vinyl just behind it. The MF is technically a tube phonostage with the Nu-Vista tubes, but those a... | |
| You've run some pretty fancy MC's, but the _______ MM cartridge really impressed me - Grace F9 (Soundsmith makes replacement styli) - Technics EPC-205C* (the EPC-100C has already been mentioned; JICO makes replacement styli for the 205) - JVC/Victor X-1 (JICO makes replacement styli) - Audio Technica 150* (really any of the AT... |