viridian
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| ARC LS1, LS2, LS3 , or LS7, which to buy? Thanks John, yes, in my original question I listed the budget at $750.00. I had a Classe 40 I think it was, once, junk really, but the McCormack is a really good idea, I was concerned that the active buffered one has no gain, any thoughts? Great s... | |
| ARC LS1, LS2, LS3 , or LS7, which to buy? Guido and Bob (wow, that Bob Wood, thanks for weighing in) I appreciate the continued guidance. Since I no longer sell black tar heroin and rob casinos, I am afraid that the LS5 and Rowlands are out, at least for now ;^). Viridian is a shade of gr... | |
| So...What do you listen to in your car? Usually, the car stereo, but sometimes just the sound of the wind. | |
| ARC LS1, LS2, LS3 , or LS7, which to buy? John, the last ARC preamp I owned was a Julius Futterman upgraded SP3 (now you know how old I am) and I hated it. So soupy sounding. I loved my CJPV2AR, CJ PV5 and my CJ PV12, but really I wanted to move to a more solid-state kind of sound, with a... | |
| ARC LS1, LS2, LS3 , or LS7, which to buy? Guido and John, thanks so much, the guidance is greatly appreciated. It does not really surprise me that there are divergences of opinion in these matters, system context and sonic preferences being the greatest contributors to our audio likes and... | |
| When showing your system to others, what do you do If they have children , I always invite them to touch the 845 transmitting tubes while the amps warm up. That usually quiets the room, well after the crying and whimpering subsides anyway. I should have ten or twelve minutes until the paramedics s... | |
| Am I a burning out audiophile???? Don't worry, if you are listening to Diana Krall you can rest easy, you are an audiophile not a music lover. Can Pat Barber be far behind? | |
| Not wasting my time on new Digital With all due respect when CD, a very flawed format, hit the streets, most people spent "hundreds to thousands of dollars" to repopulate their music collections which were previously stored on LP, compact cassette and open reel tape. So this market... | |
| Morph the Cat deheaded Too bad, I went to my local record hut in search of Morph this weekend based on it being cut from analog tape and being a Hoffman mastering. Now I am kind of glad that I came up empty. | |
| Fussing over a new cartridge installation No, not snake oil, but context would probably say that the money could be better spent elsewhere. The HKs are excellent inexpensive tables but tweaking will only get you so far. My advice, start saving for a nice table that is a couple of rungs up... | |
| Fussing over a new cartridge installation Sorry, I was a bit confused. The Ortofon Super cartridges have a kind of gold weight built into the top surface that meets the headshell. Do not remove this weight. It damps the interface between cartridge and headshell and also brings the total w... | |
| Fussing over a new cartridge installation 1)Set this by ear. The more capacitance, the richer it will sound, the less capacitance, the more extended. You cannot do any harm.2)No weight.3)Don't know, but the way to stretch the cartridge clips on the HK is to use a fine awl or a round tooth... | |
| Vote your next American The easiest thread of the year, Lugnut, Pat Malone, taught me about music and audio, but mostly, taught me about life. I miss you Pat. | |
| Paradigm vs Vandersteen I won't weigh in on the sonic differences, as they are so pronounced that one usually can figure out if they want chocolate or cheese. But the sensitivity issue is real, the Paradigms being roughly 6db more sensitive will require approximately one... | |
| What TT upgrade from tweaked Thorens TD160 Have you ever tried just defeating the springs on the 160 to make it a suspensionless table? |