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| Largest Impact - Arm or Cart? I've got an Incognito-wired Rega RB250 arm with Michell Tecnoweight and Tecno VTA adjuster and it sounds great with the Benz Reference 3. That said, I would trade you for your OL Encounter and Benz M2... | |
| Stand out phono stages The new battery-powered Nova Phonomena is a very good performer by any yardstick and it is much more adjustable than most. I like it a lot. | |
| Polarity Questions.. Reversed polarity can make a noticeable difference, but I notice it more with tubes than solid-state gear and if you have speakers with a crossover in the midrange it then the question of proper polarity could be moot.That said, I think it's nice ... | |
| Bi-amping mark-Daniel Maximus: Mind-blowing I heard the M&D speakers locally and was very impressed with them. The room was very boomy and the electronics were kind of mid-fi, but nonetheless, I could tell that there was something special about the speakers performance. They are very pr... | |
| Replace the Supratek Chardonnay with Accuphase? One thing's for sure -- the sound will be totally different, and you may like some things betters and others not as much! Maybe you just need a different tube preamp if the Chardonnay has things you don't like about it...I personally like the conc... | |
| Unplugging / replugging Anti Cables Changes things If you've changed ANYTHING else, I'd look there first... If you haven't changed anything else, two possibilities exist: 1) You're imagining the change in sound, or 2) The performance of one of the components in your audio chain is deteriorating. I... | |
| Unplugging / replugging Anti Cables Changes things When you say you "moved the amp 6-inches sideways to make some room," does that mean you put some other component right next to the amp? If so, that could be your problem.I have some Anti-Cables and have plugged and unplugged them a bunch of times... | |
| a Power vs Volume Question 172dB??? Wouldn't that cause incontinence, impotence, deafness, blindness, and sudden death? WOW, now that's really something to shoot for! | |
| Class-D amps - a different re view Oh great... another slam the Class-D amps thread. How original!My view is that a lot of audiophiles just don't want to believe that class-D amps can compete with and oft-times outperform the best conventional ss and tube amps available.This is the... | |
| Hum- help needed If you changed the "bad humming" amp to a different circuit and it was quiet then I would suspect that the outlet you are using for your stereo may not be properly grounded or may be wired improperly. Any electronics store should sell a simple out... | |
| Haven't used my analog rig for months...... There shouldn't be any issues. You might want to remove the belt while it's not being used, but that's about it. I doubt that the cartridge will be bothered. | |
| Where to start with vinyl Stringreen, you're so wrong it's pathetic. The better MC phono preamps are quite quiet and hum-free -- just as much so as a MM phono stage. So now folks can take advantage of all the extra detail and transient speed provided by today's better MC c... | |
| Where to start with vinyl Sgunther, just to add to my earlier post, if you need to skimp anywhere, I'd skimp on the cartridge... You could get very good results using a Benz Glider or Ace (low output preferred) if you don't want to spring for the Reference 3. That would ge... | |
| Where to start with vinyl I asked myself that same question, and it turned out that a Michell Tecnodec with a Rega RB250 arm and tecnomods (plus Incognito wiring) does the trick nicely. I'm using the Benz-Micro Reference 3 low-output MC cartridge in that system, which has ... | |
| Upgrading from NAD 521bee--need soundstage Hi Reubent,I have the Oppo 970HD. I gave it to my son to use in his system and he is mainly concerned with its video performance, which is quite good.I don't doubt that you are getting excellent performance from your modded unit and the Oppo's abi... |