Hey Guys,
I really appreciate all the responses. Its really great how willing this community is to help! I'm sorry I have so many questions, but it really helps to gain my knowledge base. I am currently located in Seattle. I guess I could try and set up my cart in the future. I just wouldn't know how to tell if it was really on there correctly. But it probably is a skill I should have as I plan to listen to vinyl for the foreseeable future.
I bought my P1 in the summer, so its about 6 months old or so. As is I said, I think its not bad at all but am just really curious at what kind of better sound is available to me! I just want to avoid any kind of set up that is just ridiculously revealing making any non-audiophile recording sound subpar.
I'm thinking I will probably go ahead and get the P5, I just couldn't decide if it was worth it over the P3-24. My dealer thinks the P3-24 is really close to the P5 and that his favorite in the whole line is the P7. I'm just wondering if the P5 will be diminishing returns.
As for budget for any other gear, I was thinking of keeping it around $1,500 for now. I don't really have to stay with tubes or anything. I wanted to try the Fisher because everyone says that tubes really mate well with the Klipschs. To my ears this seems to be the case, but as stated earlier, I'm not really familiar with much else.
I'd like to give the Seduction phono stage a try but was wondering if it was really a step up over what I have now with the Fisher? Also, it would be pushing it with the gain factor as the Denon only outputs at 1.6mV. I think my speakers would help to compensate though as they are 99dB sensitivity I believe.
I have never been able to hear SET stuff so I am a little leary going down that road as my dealer warned me that they really don't match up that well with rock music. I also like to listen to my music fairly loud. Certainly nothing earsplitting, but enough to really know its there.
In the future I would like to get a nice pair of headphones, but for now I'd like to funnel all my money towards vinyl playback for my room.
As for what tubes are in my Fisher. Craig wrote me up an invoice of all the parts he had to buy and here are two lines listing the tubes:
"4- EH 7868 matched quad of output tubes
6- JJ 12AX7 preamp tubes"
Does switching tubes really make that much of a difference? One other thing I forgot to mention at first was that I can definitely hear a fair amount of tube rush during the very quiet parts of my music when I have the receiver turned up to about the '5' position on the volume knob. Its not anything horrible, just a little distracting.
Thanks so much!
-Clipper
I really appreciate all the responses. Its really great how willing this community is to help! I'm sorry I have so many questions, but it really helps to gain my knowledge base. I am currently located in Seattle. I guess I could try and set up my cart in the future. I just wouldn't know how to tell if it was really on there correctly. But it probably is a skill I should have as I plan to listen to vinyl for the foreseeable future.
I bought my P1 in the summer, so its about 6 months old or so. As is I said, I think its not bad at all but am just really curious at what kind of better sound is available to me! I just want to avoid any kind of set up that is just ridiculously revealing making any non-audiophile recording sound subpar.
I'm thinking I will probably go ahead and get the P5, I just couldn't decide if it was worth it over the P3-24. My dealer thinks the P3-24 is really close to the P5 and that his favorite in the whole line is the P7. I'm just wondering if the P5 will be diminishing returns.
As for budget for any other gear, I was thinking of keeping it around $1,500 for now. I don't really have to stay with tubes or anything. I wanted to try the Fisher because everyone says that tubes really mate well with the Klipschs. To my ears this seems to be the case, but as stated earlier, I'm not really familiar with much else.
I'd like to give the Seduction phono stage a try but was wondering if it was really a step up over what I have now with the Fisher? Also, it would be pushing it with the gain factor as the Denon only outputs at 1.6mV. I think my speakers would help to compensate though as they are 99dB sensitivity I believe.
I have never been able to hear SET stuff so I am a little leary going down that road as my dealer warned me that they really don't match up that well with rock music. I also like to listen to my music fairly loud. Certainly nothing earsplitting, but enough to really know its there.
In the future I would like to get a nice pair of headphones, but for now I'd like to funnel all my money towards vinyl playback for my room.
As for what tubes are in my Fisher. Craig wrote me up an invoice of all the parts he had to buy and here are two lines listing the tubes:
"4- EH 7868 matched quad of output tubes
6- JJ 12AX7 preamp tubes"
Does switching tubes really make that much of a difference? One other thing I forgot to mention at first was that I can definitely hear a fair amount of tube rush during the very quiet parts of my music when I have the receiver turned up to about the '5' position on the volume knob. Its not anything horrible, just a little distracting.
Thanks so much!
-Clipper