o_holter
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| Good carts with SME V tkr, nkonor, invictus005Thank you. Yes, a Koetsu is certainly an idea. I have never tried one. After I got the Aesthetix Io back from repair a year ago, with new JJ tubes selected by Aesthetix, the noise level was much lower. I also like the Steel... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Just an add-on, further illustrating my point of amp and speaker matching. After giving up on improving the Krell / Dynaudio system, I sold the Dynaudio’s, and used the Krell for a period with easier-driven speakers, before I sold it. The speakers... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! roxy54 - agree - amps certainly can be "separate but equal" and system matching is a main issue - including the room - in my experience.In my case, I went up the Krell line in three stages some years ago - KAV 100, 250, and then to the flagship at... | |
| CDs Vs LPs Vinyl wins - usually. My vinyl setup is 'very good', my digital medium 'good'. It often depends on the album, production and recording, of course. Some CDs can sound very good indeed (Dr John plays the Duke comes to mind). But usually, SACDs sound... | |
| Why are my woofers pumping? I thank you all for all suggestions in this thread. My problem of woofer pumping is 'solved'. No diamond, no pumping. No woman no cry. Maybe, it was mainly a result of usage. It has 1200 or 1300 hours use, in my estimate. I will try to fix the Atl... | |
| Good carts with SME V How so? | |
| Good carts with SME V Two ways to check your cart-arm resonance frequency:1 Add weight of cartridge plus 1 g for screws plus tonearm effective mass, into the vinyl engine resonance frequency calculator. 2 Test with Hifi News or similar test record - side B track 2 on t... | |
| Why are my woofers pumping? Nothing so bad it isn’t some good also. I am trying to find a way out, how to repair it for a reasonable cost. This should not happen, for a moderately used (not misused) cartridge. Such things - diamonds falling off, cantilevers breaking, cantile... | |
| Why are my woofers pumping? Oh no. Worst case scenario. Trying to fasten the lead clips to the Atlas, to get it back on to the arm, something has gone wroing. Cartrudge first gave strange distorted sound, we adjusted some more, but then it just sailed across the record. Caus... | |
| Why are my woofers pumping? Thanks. Trying to get in touch with Lyra. | |
| Why are my woofers pumping? Since I am testing mainly for subsonic woofer pumping the sonic impressions may be less relevant, but the experience is clear and maybe interesting for some of you. Listening in "retrospective" to the Clavis DC, allthough it sounds good, I have tw... | |
| Why are my woofers pumping? The observant reader may ask why I did not try the Clavis and the Titan before, since I had them at my loft. That would have saved us a lot of speculation in this thread. The answer is that I thought they were broken, due to many hours on the Tita... | |
| Thorens Turntables I had a Thorens TD125 for many years, with Stanton, Pickering and Lyra carts. Sadly it is not around anymore. Should be possible to buy and upgrade. It could be interesting if you want to run several turntables. I only use one. I switched from the... | |
| What makes a speaker sound great at low volume? My former Krell 600 - Dynaudio Consequence combo was hopeless on low volume. It would have been better to listen to a small bookshelf system. It was only on higher volume that the wolf came out of the lair, so to speak. Music started sounding grea... | |
| price of Oppo players threw the roof I have no idea if a new Oppo is the way to go. Maybe the following is relevant. My Oppo 981 plays CDs quite ok but no more. SACDs are better, lively and large soundscape. Yet it is still beaten by vinyl rips made on my Tascam DA-3000, played back ... |