dishman442
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| The Devil is in the Cartridge Setup (and a good phone pre)... I believe the subject is cartridge setup and it’s importance, not talking smack about mods. If you don’t believe in mods, don’t buy them. | |
| All Quiet on the Oppo front? The last round of 205 “golden tickets” were sent in August. Shipment is finishing up now. The website no longer accepts entries. Sadly, unless the corporate parent changes course, these are gone. I saw a new one recently for sale - asking $4300. U... | |
| Do you trust Audiogon? Banks (US at least) are required to report $10k and up transactions. The Feds can take a look at potential money laundering scams or other illegal activity. Breaking the sale up into smaller pieces is not illegal as far as I know. Taking a sale of... | |
| Listening Height Adjustment -- Is This Why Two People Don't Hear the Same? Tilting affects time alignment between drivers. Competent designers spend much effort to get this as close to perfect as possible, so definitely at least start with manufacturers set up recommendation. Not saying this this is the only way, but I s... | |
| I need one for every room...and two for the garage! Full of Audiophile air. Made me giggle. Im surprised at the lack of “make an offer” button | |
| Matching Speakers to amp Consider a Odyssey Khartago stereo amp used. These pop up for $600 occasionally. AB amp, big power supply, easily doubles wattage down to 2 ohms, high amperage. Huge soundstage, sweet sounding high frequencies. Made in Indiana, they have an upgrad... | |
| Matching Speakers to amp The Quads will lose that hardness on top when you upgrade the cabling.... | |
| Next step: preamp or phono preamp Great thread, I’ve enjoyed reading it. FYI, getting your Khartago fully upgraded will be well worth it, but Klaus is so backlogged he recently told me to keep my Khartago monos as “they would just sit on a shelf” if I sent them in. Following your ... | |
| Best audio companies and dealers +1 for Ray KimberOdyssey and Klaus Bunge define personalized service with great products that WAY outperform their prices | |
| preamp inverts polarity I’ve read this whole thread and will never get that time back. Invert connections on both speakers then listen. If it sounds better then before, leave it. If your cables are built differently for negative and positive, try it anyway. If your pream... | |
| Grado Labratory Wood Tonearm? 3 questions: Keep it? Sell It? Burn it? My completely inappropriate advice, something you should NOT follow, is to consider the fact that straws are going to disappear. Perhaps it could be used as a straw replacement? Maybe remove all that expensive new wiring first... Seriously tho... | |
| Who said “ flat freq response “ is the best? Yes. I’ve said that. Components should be designed to be as flat as possible to be faithful to the original recordings. From that point, all hell breaks loose with rooms, our ear/brain function, personal taste, probably sunspots for all I know. Wi... | |
| Using Maple Butcher Block Under a Turntable Wow. Highly entertaining. I didn’t learn anything, but I laughed my ass off. Fortunately I was sitting on a 3 inch slab of maple, so my ass vibrations were highly damped. | |
| Racks - what’s awesome without impacting my kids college plans? Jperry, I realize amp cost is a decent qualifying price point question, but I prefer to just look for good value - great sound suggestions and go from there | |
| Racks - what’s awesome without impacting my kids college plans? Huh. Sound Anchor. I sold their speaker stands years ago but not racks. They sell racks prefilled? What must they weigh/cost to ship? Good thoughts everyone! Anyone else have a suggestion? |