bimmerlover
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| Looking for phono preamp advice in the $1000 - $1600 range @kennyc I did, thanks for asking! A Moon 310LP in 9/10 condition for less than $900. Figured that’s not a deal to pass on. And if for some reason the Moon is not ending up ringing my bell, there are so many other great recommendations in this thr... | |
| Looking for phono preamp advice in the $1000 - $1600 range @jbuhl Thanks - that’s a good suggestion. I found a lightly used Moon 310LP for less than $1k. | |
| Please Help. J. A. Michell Gyro SE - Speed Issue It’s quite amazing that this is supposed to be a higher end turntable and the manufacturer is not even bothering to respond to your emails(?). I would say that is not a sign of being a high-quality manufacturer. After all, what you do expect, reas... | |
| The Horror There’s a saying in photography (I’m a professional photographer): Amateurs worry about their equipment, Professionals worry about getting paid, and Artists worry about the light. Something very similar seems to apply in the world of “audio... | |
| Tube amps under $7500 I think it’s hard to beat PrimaLuna tube amps for value. Point to point wiring, tube rectified, solidly built, compellingly priced. I currently using PL Dialogue Premium preamp going into a McIntosh MC312 solid state power amp. It’s a nice com... | |
| Full loom of the same cable brand vs mixing and matching. @mitch2 I think it’s safe to say there’s a tremendous amount of overthinking and overpaying in this group. When someone is seriously contemplating if it’s worthwhile to upgrade a $1500 power cable to a $4500 power cable, or they are surprised tha... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? @eurorack of course if you change from a substandard, “crud” power cord to something that’s half decent you should notice a difference. That’s obvious. Crap is gonna limit anything in this world - power cords or not. What we discussing in this th... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? @mihorn Your comment “In my experience, a last 5ft power cord is much more important than in-wall wiring. Like a garden water hose, the nozzle only sees what it’s connected. The audio equipment draws the current from a power cord which is a bigger... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? @invalid The electrons don’t care if you or I call the power cord the last or first five feet in a circuit that also involves 10 to 40 more feet of in-wall wiring. | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? I assume you didn’t spend several thousands of dollars on a 5 feet power cord without installing a dedicated 20 amp circuit with 10 gauge wires from your panel? Otherwise, what difference will the last 5 feet make? | |
| Going Tubing Thanks again for all the advice and recommendations. This truly is a very engaged and knowledgeable audiophile community! So, I ended up heeding this thread’s frequent advice to start off with a tube pre-amp and found a used PrimaLuna DiaLogue Pr... | |
| Going Tubing They are GoldenEar One.Rs | |
| Going Tubing Thanks again for all insights. The Schiit Freya + certainly sounds interesting, and has been recommended by at least a couple of people in this thread. What is this knowledgeable group’s opinion of the PrimaLuna Dialogue Premiere and the Prim... | |
| Going Tubing Many thanks to the many answers and insights shared. There’s a lot to distill and there are of course one hundred and one different directions one can go, based on integrated vs. separates, what matches/is able to drive my GE One.R:s and, not leas... | |
| Going Tubing Thanks for these responses! My speakers are GoldenEar One.R:s. Sensitivity is pretty solid at 92 dB, and they have built-in subs so I would assume a need to push a great deal of power to them wouldn’t be necessary. Thus a - typically - lower powe... |