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| high power tube amps vs ss I'd first get your speaker selection worked out, then worry about amplification. Speaker-amp matching is so key. And speakers are the most important component in the chain. Settle on them, then start figuring out a good amp to match them. | |
| Tonearm: Phantom vs. 4 Point vs. 10.5 At around the price of these arms, I'd also suggest looking into a Moerch DP-8. Fabulous bass, and a great arm altogether. I really like the outrigger design, and the swappable armwands that are available in different effective masses are incredib... | |
| Dynaudio, Harbeth, Penaudio or Sonus Faber I liked the 30.1 more than the P3ESR when I auditioned them at a dealer. Just a fabulous speaker, the 30.1. The P3ESR exhibited the limitations of any minimonitor. If looking around the price and size of the P#ESR, I'd go with the KEF LS50. Deserv... | |
| Well Tempered Amadeus vs TW Acustic Raven One And you are preferring the Rock despite having the much lower priced cart on it vs the GTA? That is mighty impressive. | |
| Help with a system for a guy into electronic music Another Chicagoan? All right. I think that you will want to figure how how forward or laid back you want your speaker to be. A more forward speaker can be a bit fatiguing, but also pretty exciting. Zu for example would be a forward speaker. Klipsc... | |
| Well Tempered Amadeus vs TW Acustic Raven One OH, Vortrex has some fine phono preamplification for sure. And +1 on the importance of cart-tonearm matching. Though with the Rock's trough design, I think you have a bit more wiggle room there. | |
| MC Phono Pre Gain At 0.15 mV that is pretty low output, even by LOMC standards. So you would likely want a fairly high gain phono preamp. I'd be worried about a phono pre with gain below 60dB (and even low 60s may be a touch problematic in certain set-ups). BUT, th... | |
| Which headphones?? For soundstage and imaging, you may be better off with open backed headphones. Soundstaging and imaging are precisely what you tend to lose on a closed headphone. Around $200-300, you might want to try the modded Fostex headphones by Mad Dog. They... | |
| What is a really good sounding low volume system?? Panel speakers is a good suggestion, and yes there are incredible headphones out there. I love my HiFiMan HE-5LEs (though they need some power-they actually sell an adaptor so you can hook them or the HE-6s up to your speaker amp). I might also su... | |
| Gyrodec vs Well Tempered Amadeus Sorry no_regrets, just saw your post. I think that Robert Greene captured the differences between the Rock and WTA pretty well (and note that in my direct comparisons and his, the arm was the RB300/301-clearly the weak link). The Rock seemed to do... | |
| Analog upgrade advice. If you are sticking with the Rega or a Rega geometry, you might want to look into the Audiomods arms. It was a big improvement over the RB301 I had, and I have read follks saying they prefer it over the RB700 (on Vinyl Engine maybe?). | |
| ZYX R100 or Dynavector 20x2 L? I am a big fan of both ZYX and Dyna, but haven't heard either of these models. Don't think you'll go wrong with either. | |
| ZYX R100 or Dynavector 20x2 L? Have you checked Vinyl Engine's Cartridge database to confirm that both carts will work well with that arm in terms of resonance? That will be an important first step. | |
| Is built in phono preamp usually best way to go? One issue with a built in phono, is that you don't get as much isolation from all of the other electronics and the power supply of an all-in-one unit. This is particularly important for a phono stage due to the sizes of the signals involved. You'l... | |
| What's the sonic advantage of bi-wiring I agree with the other comment above that this will depend on how the speaker was designed. Was the designer crafting the crossover with bi-wiring or bi-amping in mind? Or are those dual binding posts an afterthought, aimed at not losing potential... |