jperry
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| Who makes great active preamps ? Tube or solid state or hybrid. Shindo, Luxman, Nagra all make excellent preamps.CAT also makes an excellent preamp.I have heard all in a system I am intimately familiar with or my home system.What is your listening experience with Pass, Rowland and Lamm? | |
| Who makes great active preamps ? Tube or solid state or hybrid. Shindo, Luxman, Nagra, Leben all make great preamps | |
| Best speakers in the 50-60k range ? A good pick if you like hornshttp://www.auditorium-23.de/Hommage/Cinema.html | |
| What is they best album out there for showing off the sound quality of your system. Blue by Joni Mitchell Black DubSusan Tedeschi - Live at Austin City Limits | |
| best tube preamp to pair LM 518ia Better sound plus a phono preamp. I have heard LM paired with Shindo frequently and very good results. | |
| best tube preamp to pair LM 518ia I don't think any of the suggestions above have a remote control, and no Shindo preamp, which I would suggest, has a remote control either. Maybe a luxman cl-38uc? It has a phono section and a remote control for volume | |
| Best Inexpensive Platforms Auralex | |
| How I would measure cables My experience is that in addition to your ears you also need a tape measure. They don’t work at all if you can’t connect at both ends. | |
| Opinion on SME 15 I spent the weekend with a friend who has a SME 10 with Sumiko Pearwood II cartridge. The SME 10 sounds great in this system. He used to have a VPI TNT with VPI tonearm. Definite improvement | |
| Opinions about upgrade Another consideration if you like your Proac speakers is to move up in the line. The D-30r with a ribbon tweeter is a big move up from the D-18 | |
| Looking for the best Preamp with a phono circuit built in I would look for a used CAT preamp. | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Let me help with this@whitecamaross "Keith,although I respect your opinion, can you tell me if you’ve personally owned or demoed Nordost Odín cables in your one home to arrive at that conclusion? "@keithr No | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! You are on to something good. I have a system with primarily Nordost Valhalla 2 and I have tried Odin 2 in my system. It is really something great, but I wish less expensive.@whitecamaross"No powecord has ever made such a big difference as the nor... | |
| Digital Microscope advice SRA I bought a digital microscope and tried this.Far more trouble than it is worth. Better to start with the headshell parallel to the record and adjust by ear from there.If you want to do this you will be able to see and get better focus resting the ... | |
| Phono Protractor. Recommendations? lewm6,705 posts+1The absolute cost no object best is the SMARTractor. The next best and much easier to use and cheaper is the Feickert. For one tonearm only, the Mint. -2Commentary from a person who knows little about turntableshttps://forum.au... |