yeti42
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| Your ship just came in! time to buy new gear..? So a cheque for £40k arrives, not from an incident with some hippos but just the result of old age and a heart attack, my mortgage has a year or two to run and I'm only paying 1.1% interest on it anyway so might as well ignore that. My system at t... | |
| Relaxed, musical DAC around 2k used? I was looking for a DAC to stand in for a couple of years to go with a Naim Core via SPDif while I waited for their new streamers (which were obviously coming once the Atom etc were launched). I tried a Rega DAC-r and a Chord 2qute, initially wit... | |
| Personal Tuner Evolution NAD 4020A from new in 1981 and still using it. | |
| Speaker positioning games. Where can I go from here? Some years ago, including on this forum, there was a discussion about the Sumiko Masterset speaker setup procedure (http://www.hifi.ir/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/master-set.pdf) I’ve found it very useful for starting speaker setup with two differe... | |
| A DAC that can make digital sound analog? Naim ND555 but it’s expensive in its homeland and the markup crossing the Atlantic isn’t trivial, oh and it’s a streamer. The DAC chip isn’t fashionable, or even produced any more but its implementation is outstanding. I’ve had one since August an... | |
| Vinyl heresy-overhang induced distortion is not that important I've recently put a London Decca Maroon (mono) on the end of an Naim Aro, an arm designed around this very premise, which has no provision to adjust overhang having holes rather than slots. The arm board I have was made when I was using a DV17D3, ... | |
| Decca London Super Gold Compatibility Question A unipivot is what is recommended in the instructions that come in the cartridge box. Then again Art Dudley claimed to get good results with a maroon in a Rega arm. This with the addition of a Townshend outrigger and trough (the deck is a Rock mk2... | |
| Decca London Super Gold Compatibility Question The first step is to try to tune the adjustment by ear with the existing arm, dialing it in by numbers is only the start. Once you've got it as good as you can get it then is the time to decide whether to try a different arm. | |
| Decca London Super Gold Compatibility Question I have a maroon in a Naim Aro unipivot, I had to drop the back of the arm by a mm or two to get the sound to fill out and there is a definite sweet spot for VTF and I have to make a new arm board to get the overhang right. Even with overhang 2mm t... | |
| What's been your turntable ownership over the years? Micro Seiki DD24 with entry level mm 1980 to 1988Manticore Mantra with RB300 and Goldring Eroica L 1988 to 1990Townshend Rock mk2 1990 to 2011 with RB300 and 17D2, later D3Naim Aro replaced the Rega on the Rock 2011 and I removed the trough.The Ro... | |
| Kuzma/Koetsu feedbak?? If you’re running a standard gain superline/supercap phono stage don’t go too high with the cartridge output level, the platinum magnet Keotsus are about right, the sumarium cobalt ones are getting nearer the limit but maybe not quite where you’d ... | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? I’ve been known to leave the mono switch on after playing a mono album an not notice for a day or two of stereo recordings so probably not a major issue for me. What I do dislike is when the sound dives for the closest speaker when I listen off ax... | |
| Kuzma/Koetsu feedbak?? With a VTA micrometer built into the tower would a 4 point 9 have greater rigidity than the 14 and work better in the context of an XL and a Naim 500 system. (I have the latter but not the former.) | |
| Quality streaming for newbie Are we talking Naim ND555 ($33k) or a MAC Mini and a budget DAC, what do you mean by quality? | |
| Warm, lush and dark ... Dac up to 1.2K For SPDif the Rega DAC-r using filter 3 and fed via a Belden 4794R cable (with a BNC to RCA adapter at the DAC end) this combo let the emotion flood out. When first tried using a Chord Shawline it failed to excite but with the Belden (~$20 from bl... |