jasonbourne52
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| Vinyl headache from hell!!! Mistracking on the lead-in grooves. Try increasing the VTF a bit! Make sure the stylus is clean! | |
| What does Hi-Fi Even Mean anymore? High Fidelity - the movie! John Cusack, et al ... | |
| Beethoven Missa Solemnis Klemperer has an earlier mono recording (1955) made with the NDR Orchestra. Worth checking out! | |
| Beethoven Missa Solemnis Otto Klemperer and the New Philharmonia on EMI Great Recordings OF The Century CD! | |
| Building new system starting with power amp. What would you choose ? elliottbnewcombjr: the OP wants an amplifier as a starting point for building a system around. Strictly a fantasy exercise! So I offered a great classic amp from the past and two radically different speakers that can work with it! | |
| Building new system starting with power amp. What would you choose ? The ML-2 certainly set a benchmark for SS class A amplification! | |
| Building new system starting with power amp. What would you choose ? The Levinson ML-2 mono amp has 1 Farad of capacitance in its cap bank! Something of a record here! And the ability to easily drive the 1 ohm Apogee Scintilla - a brutal load indeed! 200 watts @ 1 ohm! | |
| DAC for carousel cd player? Does the Pioneer have a coax RCA digital output? If so I recommend using that instead of the toslink (plastic) optical output. The best optical digital outputs are glass fiber. Toslink falls short! A 75 ohm 1.5 meter RCA cable will sound much bett... | |
| Building new system starting with power amp. What would you choose ? A pair of the Levinson ML-2 (25 watt) monos. Plus a pair of Quad 57's. Designed by Tom Colangelo. Each mono amp weighs 100 lbs. No skimping here on the power supply! | |
| DAC for carousel cd player? Get a Topping DAC for $300. Excellent SQ! Why spend more? | |
| upgrade from using linestage from integrated Yamaha There are plenty of good vintage 6SN7's available. Different brands have different "colorations". Plus the circuit of the Saga is pretty simple compared to the SP10! I have an ARC SP6 - bought for its phono stage. | |
| upgrade from using linestage from integrated Yamaha That ARC SP10 will be about 3 - 4X more expensive than the Schiit Saga. With just one tube (6SN7) the Saga will be more fun to "tube roll" than the 6922's in the SP10! | |
| upgrade from using linestage from integrated Yamaha There is a Schiit Saga tube line stage available now on eBay. $325 + $25 shipping from Illinois. Seller is "canhthuan". It used a single 6SN7 dual triode. I recommend this one. Why spend more? | |
| upgrade from using linestage from integrated Yamaha All tube gear - while liked by many - can hardly be called "neutral" or "transparent"! Spoken from experience! I have been collecting and using tube gear since the late '70s. | |
| upgrade from using linestage from integrated Yamaha The line stage in the Yamaha is already excellent! I doubt there will be any noticeable difference in sound quality from another solid state line stage. Tubes are another matter! A tube line stage will add its own colorations - hardly what one can... |