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| Any Herron VTPH-2 Phono Stage Owners out there? Think about what Keith Herron did in my case: He took a used pre-amp that was discontinued ten years ago and reengineered it to meet my specific and unusual needs. Knowing I would want as much headroom as his design was capable of, and that I woul... | |
| Bob Weir documentary on Netflix Okay, upon reflection, I take your (plural) point and admit to deserving it. How embarrassing! But lemme 'splain: I was actually startled to see the sentiment of not being a huge fan of The Band in print. Where I come from, The Band are so signifi... | |
| Bob Weir documentary on Netflix The Band were the antidote to all the crappy hippie bands and psychedelic hogwash and excess of the late 60's/early 70's. | |
| Sound Lab vs Magnepan 20.7 True Ralph, but most serious junkies use a specific amp with a specific speaker anyway. Change one and you most likely will have to change the other. When an engineer designs a speaker/amplifier combination, he can tailor each to the other. | |
| Any Herron VTPH-2 Phono Stage Owners out there? Lew, Harvey recommended 10k to 15k resistance, and 1000pF to 1mF (!) capacitance, using .33mF himself. But every Decca was different. There was a device named the "Decade Capacitance Box" that would allow capacitance to be adjusted; with it you fo... | |
| Sound Lab vs Magnepan 20.7 Roger Modjeski (Music Reference) is making an ESL speaker with a direct coupled tube power amp. He claims a substantial increase in transparency in comparison to a transformer coupled version. | |
| Beautiful Classical Smaller Pieces, duo,trio,etc All of the Baroque titles on the Harmonia Mundi label, if you find period instruments "beautiful". | |
| amp or preamp to extend upper end I have always found Vandersteens to be inherently a little soft sounding. Maybe the Krell was compensating for the top end of your speakers. | |
| Any Herron VTPH-2 Phono Stage Owners out there? Most of the difference between the VTPH-1 and VTPH-2 is in the mc section, which was one reason I didn't want to spend so much more for the 2. I have no doubt the 2 is worth the extra $ for mc use, but I don't need the extra gain of the 2---in fac... | |
| Helius tonearm users, what have you upgraded to? If anyone is selling an Omega, I'm looking for one. | |
| Which phono preamps among these three? There is an Allnic 1201 listed right now for $2200. I listened to the Liberty B2B at T.H.E. Show last weekend, and it sounds great and is really well built. | |
| Any Herron VTPH-2 Phono Stage Owners out there? I didn't want to have to pay for the MC section of a VTPH-2 (I'm a "committed" Decca/London user; some people think "we" should be committed!), so I contacted Keith. He told me he had a PH-1mc trade-in that he could convert into a custom PH-1mm, a... | |
| Looking for really fine cables at really low price At T.H.E. Irvine Show this past weekend, the cable panel members (Kimber/Cardas/Shunyata/K-S) recommended against tinning speaker wire ends, suggesting instead bare wire. I don't remember the reason why, but Ray was pretty adamant about it. | |
| Sound Lab vs Magnepan 20.7 Yep, the mating of an ESL panel and a cone woofer is definitely the Achilles heal of hybrids. Sanders uses a transmission line loading of the woofer, which is a good sign. I didn't hear a problem in the transition area, but show conditions don't a... | |
| Sound Lab vs Magnepan 20.7 Based on what I heard this past weekend at T.H.E. Show in Irvine, CA, there I another speaker you might want to consider. I don't know the model name or number, but it's the $20,000 Sanders ESL. You get two panels with a sub in each (175Hz x/o fre... |