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| Can You Live With Crackling & Popping Noise? Some crackling and popping is due to damaged vinyl, or by lesser quality vinyl, and will not go away regardless of how thoroughly the record is cleaned.Some record companies are known for using higher quality (quieter) vinyl than others. ECM is on... | |
| Modwright Transporter VS Opera Droplet 5.0 CDP. Member Trelja was once the USA distributor for Consonance. He liquidated all his inventory due to poor product performance and poor factory support of products sold in the USA.Consonance may have improved upon this since Trelja gave up the distrib... | |
| Whole House Surge Protection I have an Environmental Potentials EP-2050 whole house surge protector/filter installed in my service panel. It is an industrial electrical surge and noise filtration system adapted for the residential marketplace.It has not changed the sound of m... | |
| Tube preamp and McCormack DNA-500 It was also much better than "OK".... you should be very pleased if that's the route you choose.Fplanner2000 (System | Threads | Answers)What I meant by "OK" was that it will work OK, not that it will sound only "OK". If the bass is extended and ... | |
| Modwright Transporter VS Opera Droplet 5.0 CDP. Jax2 was very helpful providing me with his MW TP tube rolling Cliff's Notes, and in my system, the EML 5U4G and Tung-Sol 6SN7GT round plates have produced the best sound. Thanks, Marco.I don't use my MW TP as a reference component, so since absol... | |
| Tube preamp and McCormack DNA-500 08-16-09: Foster_9Thanks again for all the recommendations. Which of the above preamps leans more in the direction of a smooth tube sound as opposed to leaning more to a smooth solid state sound? Juicy Music Peach I and VAC for sure have the smoot... | |
| Modwright Transporter VS Opera Droplet 5.0 CDP. 08-16-09: Jax2Another friend (TVAD) thought his Esoteric X03 edged out the MWTP by a small margin in slightly superior resolution.Just a couple small revisions. I own an Esoteric UX3-Pi, not an X-03. One is a universal player and the other is an S... | |
| Tube preamp and McCormack DNA-500 I'm sure you're aware that the original Peach has more varied tube rolling options with its 6DJ8/6922 tubes.The Peach II uses the 6H30, which offers few tube rolling options, and the options that exist don't change the sound as significantly as is... | |
| pass XA 60.5 vs Pass X250.5 IMO, the XA-30.5 does not provide enough power to drive 88.4dB speakers unless you have a small room, and you listen at moderate volumes. It will run out of steam quickly.The XA-60.5 would be a better choice for the mids and highs.The better Pass ... | |
| pass XA 60.5 vs Pass X250.5 It's difficult to make a meaningful recommendation without knowing the sensitivity, nominal impedance, and minimum impedance of the loudspeakers, along with the room size. Without this info, it's guesswork. | |
| Tube preamp and McCormack DNA-500 Bnrlaw, that's a good idea. | |
| Killing BluRay, new Oppo BR 83 ...a LOT of the money, perhaps most of the money we spend on high end audio gear is really just making up for the mediocre quality of the media and sound engineering.Artmaltman (System | Reviews | Threads | Answers)I wholeheartedly agree.Modest (l... | |
| Tube preamp and McCormack DNA-500 08-15-09: BnrlawJust get a used Juicy Music Peach, set it to Low output impedance setting and you are done.I made this suggestion earlier, and I agree. Foster_9 has said he needs two preamp outputs, but if he uses the ACI Speaker Level Converters ... | |
| Tube preamp and McCormack DNA-500 IMO, the output of the Cary preamps is much too high to match well to the DNA-500's 10kohm input impedance. Rolled off base and/or highs would be the likely result.John Atkinson writes in his Measurements section of the Feb. 2004 Stereophile revie... | |
| Tube preamp and McCormack DNA-500 You can run a sub (or subs) without a second set of pre outs by using these ACI Speaker Level Converters (scroll down the page).They connect at your amplifier's speaker outputs and into your subs' rca line level inputs via RCA interconnects. I've ... |