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| Clean Power without the drawbacks of Conditioning Filtering. Advice? You can buy excellent power cables and a power strip from Shunyata. The PS-8 or PS-12 are the strips and they have good cables. You can add noise reduction without conditioning if you wish as well.Rollin | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD All equipment selections and tweaks aside, I haven't noticed anyone suggesting that you try a better method of cleaning your vinyl. I noticed a significant improvement in the timbre once I used a US machine to clean my records.Rollin | |
| Any good reasons to use transistor phono stage and line level preamp instead of tube ? I find transistor phono stages sound "harder" than the tube pre-amps. I've had both and I keep going back to tube.Rollin | |
| What separate tube phono stage do you use ? +1 on BAT. I love my VK-P6SE. Check it out at Upscale Audio.Rollin | |
| Speakers positionning I've always toed my speakers in. By doing so at such an angle moves the sound stage up front and center creating a sweet spot in front of the listener, like in a true live setting. A pro audio guy recommended it to me as an enhancement to the micr... | |
| What is the most memorable concert that you had attended so far? October 31, 1990, Wembly Arena, London England. Grateful Dead. They played Werewolves of London.The Who, Atlanta Omni, November, 24, 1975Grateful Dead, Atlanta Omni, December 12, 1974Talking Heads, Pretenders, Dire Straits, Alex Cooleys Electric B... | |
| Best MM? You cannot go wrong with the Zephyr. I have a few Sound-Smith products (not the Zephyr) and IMO they have the most natural sound and are a terrific value. I have an Ortophon 2M Black and I don’t use it (probably will sell it), it sounds too "hard"... | |
| Best bookshelf speakers I can vouch for the Elac Uni-Fi-Ub5. I tried them out last year and found them very pleasing in every sense, especially the price. I've moved on and will be lising them attractively. Highly recommended. | |
| The 70’s are back I still listen to my L100s bought in 1976 for $800. They’ve been re-coned and I upgraded the crossover for a big improvement. I even replaced the foam grills that my 35 yo son ripped up when he was a toddler. Original Burnt Orange.Rollin | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? I bought my Denon DP-60L in 1984, a direct drive, automatic turntable. It had a Grace F-9e and sounded fantactic. It still does. The only change is I have a Sound-Smith Ruby OCL replacement stylus in the Grace and higher quality ICs to the pre. It... | |
| For those of us over 60.. Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia & Little Feat | |
| I can not live without "Room Correction" If you are analogue and all tube I can't see adding a digital device into the chain. It must be organic too. Room treatments are the only way to go. If you are digital (source and processing), of course digital room correction will be fine.Rollin | |
| In search for speakers of "natural" sound ATC is a studio monitor builder first. Their consumer versions are dressed up studio monitors. They want a "natural" sound in the studio, so it stands to reason that the consumer versions will all sound "natural"I second @inna’s post, digital does... | |
| Small dedicated listening rooms I have a similar situation. My room is 10' X 10.5' w/ 8' ceilings. My speakers are ATC SM19s on stands. Independently, through trial and error, the room is set up like Duke describes, except I opted for the speakers further away from the wall. I s... | |
| Might try a tube preamp You cannot go wrong with a Prima Luna Dialogue Premium or any Conrad-Johnson that you prefer. Tubes are great!Rollin |