s23chang
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| Speakers for MC240/C22 Try the Joseph Audio speakers. It pairs welll with speakers in 84-88db sensitivity | |
| Preamp suggestions Cary SLP98 F1Comes with HT bypass | |
| Looking for warm sounding speakers Have you thought about moving to tube amp instead?they're pretty warm sounding.Aside from that, there are quite a view SS amps that's warm sounding as well.Instead of replacing the speakers, why not play with the amp first? | |
| A phono amp that beats the MFA Magus's phono? Audio Research PH5 is very good. This might work for you as well. | |
| STUPIDLY high resolution pure silver interconnects If you think you heard of all silver cables then you haven't hear them all. Silver is not neccessary brighter than copper as it is really down to the design. Shielding has a lot to do with impacting the sound as well. Most of interconnect are not ... | |
| CD vs. Vinyl I am not even referring to playback experience. It is true that bad press makes bad playback just like any CD recordings as well.A better MC can track way better than the low end MM. We don't need to open a can of warms here as you want to compare... | |
| CD vs. Vinyl The most important part prior to any playback is the source of the sound. I don't think anyone mentioned here.Vinyl has the least compression vs any digital medium.Assuming if you have the same master tape source, it is then remastered to output t... | |
| CD vs. Vinyl there are exception in digital that comes very close to vinyl. To my ears, Dvd-Audio by far the closes to vinyl playback.If you get a chance to hear Diana Krall's CD, SACD, DVD-Audio and LP ( since her albums are available in all formats ) then yo... | |
| Most Engaging Monitor? what is musical to someone can be too subjective.There are lots of dependency out there all the way from the source -> cd player or vinyl -> cables -> preamp -> amp -> cables -> spkrs -> ears. Anything mismatched can sound bad... | |
| MC240 HELP PLEASE Try vintage 7027a tubes. They sound great on the MC30 and MC240. | |
| Best Small Speaker System You've ever Heard ATC SCM10 with tube amp. After trying with over 1 dozen bookselves, this is still the best small speakers I have ever heard. | |
| MC240 HELP PLEASE Check if there are loose soldering joints. | |
| New analog system disappoints, please help Maybe your phono setup doesn't have enough gain.do you have a voltmeter to measure output from CD and from the phono stage ( while music playing )2v to 3v is probably what you get. | |
| Tube vs. Solid State Phono Stage You should post this question in analog forum. As from my experience, tube phono is still way better too me. The only one I am very curious is the expressive SUT-1 step up device. It is hard to avoid lower noise of J-Fet vs tube in the MC head amp... | |
| Counterpoint SA 5000 vs SA 5.1 I had both SA2 and SA5000. I need both to work with my low output MC. The SA2 is okay but a bit noisy and not enough gain for my setup since the amp and speaker sensitivity is very low.I modified my SA5000 with all vitaminQ oil caps as it gives a ... |