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| Focal Sopra 2 vs Sopra 3? Great thread. I am in the horns of a dilemma. 1) I am getting a great deal on the Sopra N3s, not on the N2s. 2) my room is l shaped with the larger part of the room being 300sqft and the smaller part of the L not exactly being straightforward but ... | |
| Best Phono Cable for SME Series V When you change the tonearm to phono lead, for the sake of matching, dont you also have to (ideally) change the tonearm internal wiring, painful though it may prove to do? | |
| Accuphase E600 or Esoteric F-03A Greg, thanks. I am veering towards the Gryphon Diablo 300, which seems to be sitting all by itself at the table... | |
| Accuphase E600 or Esoteric F-03A greg, when you had the F-05 Esoteric how much of a step up was it on your E460? | |
| Upgrading form Pass integrated amplifier to a better one What about Esoteric F-05? Is it not worthy of a mention? | |
| Decision time - Garrard 301 vs EMT938 I did go for the ART-9, based on the discussions in your other big thread (fantastic thread), and had done 100 hours on it, and now looking for an SME-V and good phono. The sound improvement is quite significant, and it improved a bit more after a... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Lewm - right on both counts. I had to turn up the volume slightly when shifting from 100 to 30. My gain is adjustable, but significantly upwards, and not in a small step, and right now I get the right volume at the 9am position and want to keep it... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Lancelock, I am using a plug in phono from Accuphase AD2820. It plugs into the preamp. It has 10/30/100/300 Ohms in MC. | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Wonderful cartridge and great stories. My own experience is that the amp manufacturer recommended 2.5x impedance (hence 30 ohms) worked beautifully from the beginning, whereas the 100 ohms was more dynamic but with the highs out of control and the... | |
| Decision time - Garrard 301 vs EMT938 Hi 2psyop, thanks for your reply, and I hear you. Perhaps I have not explained clearly. I have great respect for the 301, and am sure that with the right arm and cart and plinth, it can equal the best in the game. My choices are to 1) upgrade arm ... | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? My approach is very simple - in good years, spend on turntables, which dont depreciate. In bad years, sell them off and recycle the money. You dont have to ask the wife. You can also pitch this creatively "Honey, I just saved us $1000. Guess what ... | |
| iPad "Remote" App for iTunes CWLondon, M_snow is correct.1) I use headless mac mini and play Audirvana. Majestic sound. The Audirvana manual explains the importance of bit perfect feed to DAC, which can be only guaranteed if you keep volume at 100%. Else the PC output gets di... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Dover, Perhaps SP10-mkIII has a foot in both camps for good reason...^ Brady, Chris (2008-10-06). "Teres MicroPrecise Speed Technology PDF". Retrieved 2009-01-15. "Dealing with stylus drag is another important aspect of a quality turntable drive s... | |
| USB or Squeezebox Touch from Mac to DAC RMata thanks for asking all teh questions that I had wanted to ask. I considered also a long optical cable (minijack at one end and regular toslink at the other) from my mac to the dac, but in the end settled for an iMac. | |
| Luxman vs. Accuphase Routeman21, please note that while Luxman has its strengths, it cannot compare with Accuphase in its versatility. I use both digital (PC) and analogue front ends, and my e-450 has made life simple as it use teh plug in DAC board (DAC 30) and the p... |