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| Speakers for Small Room Look into Fischer & Fischer SN 70's, 170's or 270's. | |
| SHUNYATA RESEARCH VRS CARDAS AUDIO VRS SYNERGISTIC RESEARCH Coincidentally I've been looking at the same lineup for power and tonearm cables. I think I'm going with Shunyata Sigma QR power cables with the KIPP break in for some components and the Cardas Clear Beyond's for my Jeff Rowland amps. And the CCB... | |
| Upgrading pre amp advice. My "advice" is to buy an Audio Analogue DAC for $5k with an analogue volume control and pull out your preamp and its interconnects(and sell it all!) from the chain. A DAC with a very good analogue volume control removes the need for a preamp, wh... | |
| DAC recommendations under $7K Audio Analogue DAC. It has a very good analog volume control which allows you to not use or need a separate preamp. $5500. Best DAC for the money. And you lose gear in the chain for better sound. https://www.11stereo.com/product-page/audio-anal... | |
| Interconnect suggestions for Audio Research Ref 5SE? Townshend Audio F-1 Fractal interconnects. Best bang for the buck and they are neutral and excellent. | |
| Upgrading streamer transport Lumin U2X Vs. Aurender N20 Yes. Look into and consider Playback Designs. Their streamer, the MPS-X and DAC MPD-8 are beyond compare. Even to units costing much more. Andres Koch INVENTED D to A technology. And the above use a glass fiber cable link for zero noise. Amazing... | |
| End Game(ish) Speakers - Help Deciding Fischer & Fischer SN 470's. Best value for a top end speaker. Best sound for the price over any speaker at that price. https://www.11stereo.com/product-page/fischer-fischer-sn470-3-way-passive-loudspeaker-bi-wired | |
| Your oldest gear? JM Labs Mezzo Utopia(and Sub Utopia) speakers from 2008. So 17 years. JM Labs was using Focal drivers but black oxide Titanium tweeters for the Utopia line then and not Beryllium tweeters which I am happy to say. | |
| We Vinyl Ultrasonic or Vacuum Cleaner? @dogberry Dang. That thing looks like a Roomba for records! Do you use that after every record cleaning? Or in between? Or both. Ever see that DS Audio Ionizer? It shoots ozone out over records. $1700. Crazy. | |
| We Vinyl Ultrasonic or Vacuum Cleaner? @dogberry Makes sense! How do you handle the complete drying of the record. Seems that you're getting into 30 minute territory per record? | |
| We Vinyl Ultrasonic or Vacuum Cleaner? Thanks @willy-t What do you think of this idea- Use the Degritter Mark II first then, instead of a rotisserie dryer, use the Loricraft to suck the grooves dry. Would that accomplish the best of both worlds for cleaning and drying? The Loricraf... | |
| We Vinyl Ultrasonic or Vacuum Cleaner? @willy-t Have you ever tried the Loricraft machines? In your experience, does the Elmasonic P60H clean records to the point where there are zero clicks or noise and as good or sounding better than the best vacuum machines like the Loricraft? Do... | |
| We Vinyl Ultrasonic or Vacuum Cleaner? @dogberry Thanks! I've been using Sleeve City's Diskeeper Audiophile Inner sleeves. Which do you prefer. I never thought about continually replacing inner sleeves. Replacing the sleeve after each cleaning is really going for it! Expensive but I... | |
| We Vinyl Ultrasonic or Vacuum Cleaner? @dogberry I too have a Loricraft. Never thought about an ultrasonic clean after as I thought that the Loricraft 4(pre SME version) with its hospital grade pump was good enough. I guess that you notice a big difference using the Degritter afterward... | |
| DAC's Streamer and Preamps For DAC's- Audio Analogue. $5k and it has analogue volume control so no preamp necessary. Plus has analog inputs for a phono preamp. |