audioguy85
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| turntable choice I would personally save up for the pro-ject the classic turntable with the 2m silver cartridge. It will set you back $1099., but it will be worth it not only for the sound, but for the beautiful aesthetics of the table itself. I think you will be ... | |
| The Frankensteining of Amplifiers I am no engineer, so I leave that to the designer of the product, whether it be amps or speakers. I see all these posts about replacing caps, replacing this replacing that...I don't get it really. Something made you buy that amp or that pair of sp... | |
| Why No McIntosh Recommendations? Not only Macintosh, why no Marantz? I find the pm14s1 as well as the pm8006 fine amplifiers.....mac does make some beautiful looking stuff, although I've not heard them. | |
| Turntable isolation for bedroom floor The apollo turntable shelf is rock solid. Welded steel with your choice of glass or wood for shelf. Avail in black of gray. I love mine. Butcher block acoustics makes some nice isolation platforms in walnut or maple...your choice of leveling feet,... | |
| Audioquest question Seldom ever see any one mention british cable makes here, kind of odd...I use and like chord cable, atlas cable, and qed....I find that all three sound, at least to me, extremely good and neutral.The only cable I own not made in the UK would be my... | |
| If you had $1,400 , A TTable thing Easy...get yourself a pro-ject the classic sb superpack with the sumiko blue point no 2 mc cartridge. Beautiful to look at, and unbelievably musical. $1499 complete. Even comes with leather matt, low capacitance upgraded interconnects, and the bea... | |
| Buy a $40,000 used DAC for $4,000 or a new one for the same amount? I’m sorry, but 40k on a dac? That’s a down payment on a house 🙄. How much better can it possibly sound as opposed to a 1k dac made by a reputable manufacturer. To each his own I guess...if I had 40 k I’d spend it on speakers, but I don’t, and if I... | |
| amp to buy? Keep the amp all analog imo...just add in whatever dac you want and connect to a line Input. In this way, you can update or upgrade the dac only and keep the amp. | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! I tout these speakers often, and for good reason, the wharfedale diamond 225's imo just do a lot of things right for a measly (on sale) price of 349! Regularly 449...they have bass, they have warmth, they have excellent midrange, and no listener f... | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! I own the spendor s3/5r2’s and I must say I agree. They just sound right. As stereophile reviewer said...these are all I need.....problem is I also own harbeth p3esr's and wharfedale 225's lol. Hard to decide which to listen to at times, but I lik... | |
| Dumped the rack My turntable is on a steel apollo turntable shelf with a wood shelf/base and bolted to a concrete basement wall. No vibrations and sounds good to me, and its easy to play and clean a record. Works for me. Being inconvenienced imo will eventually c... | |
| Small Floorstander? Save your money and just buy a pair of wharfedale diamond 230’s...great.Hifi choice, hifi News, and what hifi agree, with 5 star ratings. Warm sounding, huge soundstage, plenty of detail, and with the down firing port similar to the tannoy but muc... | |
| Recordings by Elton John, Nirvana and Thousands More Lost in Fire That is truly tragic...and why I buy as many original or as near as can be pressings of the old standards when I can find them, whether on Ebay or thrift stores. Once gone they are gone. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Just listened to a peggy lee album called let’s love...sounded fantastic. Then listened to an album called living marimbas tijuana taxi, I highly recommend it! Each of these records cost me a whopping $1! | |
| SS Amp Designer by Reputation Marantz reference series and or rogue audio are my preferences....very happy with both my pm14s1 and sphinx v2... |