sonicbeauty
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| Turntable Recommendation for Beginner If you can get your hands on a new or low-mileage Thorens TD-700 it is very nice for the price.It gets the basics right in a way the Music-Halls of the world do not. You get a substantial and gorgeous-looking thick acrylic platter, electronic spee... | |
| How much is this worth? Sell it for the same price as the one you ''picked it up for'' since your question shows strong signs that you do not know much about turntables, and therefore you are probably unable to identify current problems that may be present and that could... | |
| Best Integrated, period. Best integrated? Easy.To the music lover: It is the integrated you already own.To the Audiophile/equipment lover: It is your NEXT integrated, the one you are lusting for right now! | |
| what is the best amp you've ever heard The best amp I ever hear is the el cheapo one connected to a 100k set of speakers.Just joking of course, but this question is SO system-dependant.... | |
| What Do You Hear When Your Amp Needs Biasing? Pretty simple, when your tubes need biasing, Kenny G music will make your both your ears bleed.When perfectly biased, only one of them will. | |
| Do you believe in Magic? Now someone, tell me again this hobby is about music enyoyment, musical artists and artisans, and not about gear, tweaking and ''sound''. Reading this thread, I am torn between memories of reading Polular Science and the British Journal of Psychol... | |
| Review: Yamaha A S-2000 Amplifier The DacMagic Plus works great using the volume control. Just reduce the volume a little, and it works fine.The previous-generation DacMagic (with no volume controls) worked great also - hard to explain....I just noticed the distortion once I made ... | |
| Best Integrated, period. I had auditioned the Magnum Dynalab MD 309 in my home for 10 days, as I had a friend who owned it and he ''insisted'' I try it out.Well, to keep things polite, Magnum should stick to tuners.And since tuners are pretty much ''out'' - what is for th... | |
| Oh, to be a high end dealer for a year. Is a $10,000 Rolex purchased to get a precise indication of time? (it is routinely 3-4 seconds off on a DAILY basis while a $ 100 quartz-powered watch is precise to a second a month).Is Bugatti the fastest, best-handling car? Or is a "mundane" Por... | |
| Tell Me The EC3 has a mellow, warmish sound that tries to mimick the sound of tubes, according with my memory of them as I once owned this integrated.You do not want speakers that sound overly warm or it will all sound too mushy. Go for speakers that are ... | |
| Sound Quality...iPad vs iTouch I use both the iTouch and iPad with a Cambridge Audio DacMgic Plus and companion digital iD-100 dock.Sound could be slightly better with the Pad, but very hard to tell.Just hit the power button for the whole screen to go black (just as if it was t... | |
| Are Quad 22L2 's considered highly colored? Speakers can be both colored and revealing at the same time. Those two are not mutually exclusive... | |
| Cambridge Audio 751 BD or Oppo BDP95? Penguinhifi, so you kept the Dacmagic 3 weeks because it sounded really bad to your ears? Then you got a Sabre dac and it sounded ''amazing''? Hard to believe such a polarizing and OPPOsite experience on those two excellent products for the money.... | |
| Are Quad 22L2 's considered highly colored? I onced owned the 22L (not the 22L2) speaker. My experience was that this the 22L is a ''forgiving'' speaker in the sense that everything is covered with some kind of an envelopping ''glow'' that makes everything sound listenable, including harsh-... | |
| Help me build a nearfiield "desktop" audio system In my office, I use a Fatman iTube ValveDock ( http://www.fat-man.co.uk/docs/product_07/iTube_ValveDock.shtml ) with a pair of inexpensive and amazing PSB Alpha B1 bookshelf speakers.This mini-system is incrediby cool-looking and actually sounds p... |