rushton
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| Looking 4 a high quality phono line stage $5k-$8k Correction: I was mistaken about the Aesthetix Io connector. The Aesthetix Io has both XLR and RCA jacks for the phono inputs (no DIN). But the first gain stage assumes a single ended input (whether XLR or RCA) and converts the signal to balanced ... | |
| Looking 4 a high quality phono line stage $5k-$8k If willing to accept tubes and buying used (to stay in your price range):Aesthetix Io Signature (add the optional volume controls with the single high level input and your back to one integrated device) Atma-Sphere MP-1 (a full function preamp wit... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 amps Pubul57, my listening to both the MP-1 and the MP-3 have been as full function preamps playing LPs. You may have it right that my differing reactions come from differences in the respective phono stages, but I suspect that's not all that's going o... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 amps Pubul57, I've had the great pleasure recently to spend some time listening to an MP-1 in a friend's system. I'm impressed: very neutral, very resolving and transparent, very quick and detailed. The virtues of the A-S amps in a preamp.I've not been... | |
| power conditioners for digital If you have only one dedicated line, a still good alternative to the power conditioner is to add a second dedicated line and move the av computer to that line to get it further isolated from the signal processing gear. | |
| Questions about Speltz zeros and MA-2 amps Springbok, the MA-2 amps are quite comfortable driving a 4 ohm load. You likely don't need the autoformer for this combination unless the speakers have some crazy low minimum impedance dip. The MA-2s work beautifully here with Eidolons, a nominal ... | |
| Speaker placement: Your favourite shortcut? I've had good success starting with either "thirds" (speakers placed one third of the room length, seating at two thirds) or the Cardas ratios for placement. Then use complex acoustic music with good soundstaging (orchestral or large ensemble jazz... | |
| power conditioners for digital Lokie, the separation of outlets ("ex. 2 outlets for digital and 4 for analogue") has nothing to do with digital or analogue per se. It's just separating the ground scheme between the sets of outlets, and perhaps adding some filters bewteen the tw... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 amps Tom, it did turn out simply to be break in for the new capacitors installed as part of the update. It took 400 hours for those capacitors to break in, and I was concerned about it. Then one day the amps just clicked over and the magic was back. Ra... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 amps Hi Tom, good to see your post! One thing folks should be aware of about the A-S amps is that the choice of 6SN7 driver tubes will make a big difference in the sound. In the MA-2s you heard at my house on the standard Eidolon, Tom, we were listenin... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 amps Rleff offers good advice about calling Ralph. He's easy to talk with and will give you straight answers. But, just so there's some response in the thread to your questions...1. The newest production amps (MkIII) have an automatic self-biasing circ... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 amps I agree completely with Sbank's description of the Atma-Sphere amps. With reasonable care matching speakers, the MA-1 amps are magic. Jimjoyce25, I own Atma-Sphere MA-2 amps that were very early production MkII amps (mid-90's production). I sent t... | |
| New to Analog and just played my first record in Come on, lighten up folks! Grannyring is having fun experimenting at a minimal cost. Help him enjoy what he's doing, don't beat him up.. | |
| Does the Step 4 final rinse for Walker Prelude help? Tbg, I'm reasonably sure that the time difference lies in the amount of time it takes Loricraft (or any of the "string" cleaners) to traverse the side versus the VPI. I'm quite confident that the string cleaners give a better result, but that's a ... | |
| New to Analog and just played my first record in Grannyring, without a doubt. But, it will give you a better sense of whether this whole effort is worth pursuing.. |