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| Clearaudio Concerto Cartridge I tried one for a month. Great detail and excellent separation of instruments. In the end though I switched to a Lyra Delos which was cheaper and in my system, gave the music more feeling. Still, I have high regard for the Concerto and wished I co... | |
| What is better than AZ Satori in high freq? I use Analysis Plus Oval 9 with my JMLab 1027be speakers. Havent heard the 926 tweeters but I find the Oval 9's are a good match with the berylium (spelling?)tweeters in the 1027's. The Oval 9's add good depth and weight to the sound. Interconnect... | |
| Upgrading to AZ Silver Reference II I agree with Teajay. I'm currently doing an extended home audition with the Silver Ref 11 (RCA) to compare to my Matrix 11's (XLR). Whilst my fully balanced amp and phono stage seem to prefer the XLR interconnects which makes comparisons a little ... | |
| Clearaudio Virtuoso vs. Maestro Havent compared directly with Virtuoso, but my Maestro Wood has excellent resolution and much greater detail than the Clearuadio Aurum Beta S it replaced. Easy to match with Phono stage, great tracker and good PRaT. Sure there are better carts if ... | |
| Turntable isolation I use an 4 inch thick block of mango wood, sitting on top of four 1 inch square erasers from the local school supplies store. This all sits on top of my teak stereo cabinet. Not a hint of vibration. | |
| Spectron musician VS. Pass Labs Amp Terryakhan, interesting experience with Spectron and Focal speakers. My experience was different. Really tried to like the Spectron with my Focal 1027be speakers and it just didnt click. Even the dealer was mystified and blamed the speakers as hav... | |
| I want to know if the kuzma stabi s with stogi s There are no absolutes here but as a general comment I would say that the Kuzma TT is not outclassed by your equipment. The Kuzma is a great TT for the price and punches well above its weight. Synergy will the the key to your musical enjoyment. Fu... | |
| Simaudio I7 vs P5.3/W5.3 I've got the i7 and first auditioned the P5.3 pre/power whilst waiting for the i7 to arrive at the dealers. Not much in it, but the P5.3 definitely had more control with greater dynamic headroom. Very similar overall sound though and if you are wo... | |
| recommendations for TT + arm + cart, around $3.5k I've got the 1027be's. Running Sim Audio amplification and phono stage using balanced interconnects. TT is Kuzma Stabi with Stogi S arm, cart is Clearaudio Maestro Wood (MM). Great synergy, plenty of dynamics, soundstage and some sweet mids. Not t... | |
| Choosing a new turntable Hmmm, I'm going through a similar search. For me its hard to find dealers within reach with a good product range. So far listened to Well Tempered Amadeus and SOTA Jewell, LP12, Clearaudio Solution. All based on what is available rather than what ... | |
| Footers for Esoteric SA50 CD-SACD Player I found the SA50 a little on the cool side in my system. swapped out my usual Oyaide Tsunami PC (used the stock cable from my PS3 which sounded pretty good..go figure!), put some sorbathane feet under and used a power conditioner to clean up the p... | |
| 47 Labs Mc Bee MC Listened to the MCBee cartridge today on a SOTA Jewel table. Arm was Sota S300, phono stage Simaudio as well as 47Labs Shigaraki. Amplification by Sim and Edge, speakers PMC (cant remember model but they were big!). Cartridge in this set up was re... | |
| Amplifier for Usher Be-10 Heard them yesterday with Ushers own 250w poweramp and a VTL preamp. Nice musical combination. | |
| New Wadia 381i vs Puccini Hey Msw1, good choice. I havent heard the GNSC modded player but have the stock 381 spinning now in my system on home demo. Very detailed but less so than the Esoteric (and more than my Marantz SA11). Lots of air around the voices and instruments,... | |
| New Wadia 381i vs Puccini Heard the 381 last week at my dealers showroom. Having made a time for the demonstration I arrived, listended for a hour and was really impressed. Then discovered the dealers assitant had hooked up the Wadia 781 instead of the 381. Switch out to 3... |