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| NAD C270 None of the above. A CD player upgrade will yield the best increase in clarity and smoothness. The NAD C541 or C541i is really nice if you want to stay in the same family. You will get a good price for your old CD and the upgrade will only cost yo... | |
| Jethro Tull "Aqualung" Shoot out results Don't waste your money on the MoFi; it is inferior to the Reprise pressings. They fooled with the frequency response way too much. I would say that the early domestic pressings of Thick as a Brick exceed all of the Aqualungs that I have heard....b... | |
| Can balanced cables be linked together? It is interesting that Bill Low of Audioquest,writing a "manufacturers comment" in the most recent Stereophile magazine recommends adding a balanced cable to be tested to an existing cable in just this way to determine the sonic quality of the DUT... | |
| What pre amp matches the McCormack DNA 0.5 Search the archives; the DNA-5 has a lot of gain and some have found problems when using high-gain preamps with this amp. | |
| Best cartridge for '50 / 60 mono LP Good choices. I would add my favorite Denon 103C (the "C" is the conical stylus). Also the Shure cartridges can all be ordered with conical styli and the V15Vmr with one is a great choice. | |
| source disappointment I have to come back to the "no filter" thing. This is a radical technological departure from the commonly accepted practices in converter design. That doesn't necessarily mean that it will sound bad, but it will certainly sound very different. You... | |
| source disappointment Is the Audio Note you are using one of the ones with no digital filter and no oversampleing? | |
| hifi as investment? He'll learn. | |
| What to put under my Aries turntable ? Music Direct has a set of specially made carbon fibre footers from Black Diamond Racing for the Aries to help aid in vibration control. If you have a sound level meter, such as those inexpensively available from Radio Shack, and a CD with bass tes... | |
| Ok this will be a good thread. Part of the confusion is that there are two questions here. The speakers have the biggest impact on the sound, but the preamp is the most important piece in the system. Why? Although the distortions in electronics are several orders of magnatude l... | |
| Power cord? Why? The fish is beginning to smell. | |
| Power cord? Why? It's a stuffed fish. | |
| Todays Raido Stations suck Note that the FCC has given the green light to allow further consolidation in the broadcast industry; the independents are being swallowed up by corporate mediocrity, kinda like the......music industry. | |
| Hickok Tube Tester Dead or Alive? Isn't there a button that you have to push in addition to turning on the power switch? My Hickock 752 works like that anyway. | |
| best budget pre used Audible Illusions Modulus 2 series, Conrad Johnson PV2ar and the Counterpoint 7 or 7.1 mentioned by Slipknot1 are all really nice preamps at the top of your price range. |