If you can stretch for it, try LS footers for speakers from critical mass systems. They decouple your speakers from the room in a wonderful way. In my system they removed all traces of edginess (yes edginess) and boom. Their CS footers for electronics and TT's are no slouch either. A single set of these under your TT may give you a relatively cheap upgrade that would obviate the need for a component upgrade. I say may, because I don't have a TT, so my experience limited to what they did with electronics. Check reviews.
How do you know what your weakest link is?
I'm contemplating what to upgrade and need some advice on what my weakest link is? I'm considering either upgrading my Clearaudio Concept Wood to a Performance DC Wood/Ovation with a Hana ML or upgrading my Musical Surroundings Nova III to a Modwright 9.0. Is my table the weak link or is my phono? What will my best gain come from and what should I expect that gain to manifest as?
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You can't tell what is your weakest link just by playing your system as you can't know what component is doing what. You have to swap out successive components one a a time and observe the changes. Experience listening to many other systems will also help. You also need to decide if you want to be a tweaker. You can add tweaks, again one at a time, retaining your present system and determine if you think any changes they make are positive or not. |
"I'm almost sitting on them. 46" from front wall and 25" from side walls. Bass is slightly boomy, but bass traps eventually." Yeah, you have a lot of speaker in that small room. "I've considered the Chinook, but I've seen many reports of noise, picking up fm signals and more selling them than keeping them." The times I demoed one in my system, very quiet. This looks interesting- https://www.analogplanet.com/content/hagerman-audios-tubey-quiet-trumpet-mc-phono-preamplifier |
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