photon46
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| technics 1200 cartridge and preamp choices If you are set on using moving coil catridges, you don't want the Grado PH-1, it's only for moving magnet carttridges. You're going to need more gain for a Denon catridge, which has rather low output. To really give you better advice, it helps to ... | |
| Speaker Height? As usual, there's no simple answer. From my listening experience, I'd say there is SOME correlation between soundstage size and the size of the speaker. However, the talents of the designer(s) and the design goals can confound your expectations in... | |
| Your Favorite Austin City Limits I'll always remember Timbuk 3's performance. They were a tremendously underappreciated duo. Most folks don't remember them for anything other than their one mainstream hit. Pat & Barbara's presence in the music scene is sorely missed. | |
| Gallo REfF3's-All their cracked up to be? FWIW, I had a rather extended listening session to the 3.1's a couple weeks ago. They were powered by a Cary V12 amp, Cary SL98P preamp, Soundstring cables, and a Arcam CD192 player. I would have to say I was, like Ojgalli, underwhelmed. After all... | |
| Audio Mags/A believer or skeptic? The more I listen, the more I marvel at how disparate our auditory perceptions must be. It is very rare to find products with universal acclaim or disdain, so I read everyone's comments with an open mind. As to mags, I've learned over the years wh... | |
| What happens when the Wife cleans the audio room Predictably, the Maggie 1.6's are moved back 2 feet from their normal spot. I've got to get a set Mye stands to put a stop to that. Can't complain really, she's very indulgent of my obsession and enjoys good music and sound too. | |
| PsAudio P-3-- or UPC 200 Zar, don't worry about the increased power consumption if you are only powering front end components with a p300. The p300 only uses 60 watts at idle. The power consumption of your front end components doubles when they run through the P300. Howev... | |
| Vinyl question It's all about the dificult proposition of maintaining profitability in a manufacturing situation with low volume sales numbers. Vinyl, while growing in popularity, is still a small, insignificant niche of the music industry. It's a lot more compl... | |
| I hear the radio..... on my turntable... help I had this problem and corrected it by switching from an unshielded to a shielded table/preamp interconnect. | |
| Wood blocks underneath components?? snake oil? David12, I wonder to what degree the golden section ratio really contributes to the effectiveness of wood footers. It certainly makes for good ad copy but it's application may be psuedo-science in this case? The golden ratio certainly crops up ove... | |
| Wood blocks underneath components?? snake oil? Well, this thread prompted me to try a bit of experimentation. I bought a bit of good quality mahogany and mpingo (african backwood) 1"x1" stock. My reasoning being that these woods are about as sonically dissimilar as any pairing. Mahogany is mel... | |
| Seeking advise on 6922 tubes for a preamplifier.. One thing to remember is that you can gain more or less benefit from a tube depending on their position. You might not need to replace all the tubes to get improvements. The amount of gain you need from a tube also influences how much risk you wil... | |
| Achieving audio system synergy Bill, the advice that I would offer is this: you will possibly not be happy with anything unless you include some rudimentary room acoustic treatment in your budget. The room is a part of your music reproduction chain, maybe the most important. A ... | |
| Any good vinyl shops in Orlando? Thanks for the heads up on those two shops. I'd done several searches for information about shops like these in the past. Sometimes it amazes how ineffective search engines can be at returning information you need. | |
| Any good vinyl shops in Orlando? I live 45 minutes down the road from Orlando and attempts to find vinyl in Orlando have proven futile. The only seller of vinyl I've found there is the Virgin Megastore at Downtown Disney, and their Jazz and Blues offerings vary from mediocre to s... |