jfuquay
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| Top 5 Reaons to NOT BUY A TURNTABLE. Very sensible. Steve usually brings a healthy measure of practicality to his videos. I’ve got a nice vinyl collection and setup, and enjoy the whole LP experience, but hey, I’m nearly 70. I also choose to pay for newspaper home delivery, but if yo... | |
| How long does Class A have? As long as the speaker I want needs/wants a lot of juice (Magnepan at present), I’ll likely use a Class D power amp, likely preceded by a tube or Class A front end. But I am one of those who also finds Class A has a certain appeal with high-effici... | |
| More watts or better power ? I wonder if given how good your system is now, a good power regenerator might not make sense. I got the same PS Audio email and as I recall one of their power regenerators has an offer on it. I personally bought a P5, their smallest unit, and noti... | |
| When someone listens to your system for the first time. I’ve put together a system to present acoustic music at its best, and I like it. But when my brother came over and wanted to hear The Rolling Stones, I knew he was about to be underwhelmed. “I want to feel a punch in my chest,” he says, something ... | |
| What's your dream speaker? As I was waiting on the paperwork for my new Magnepans at my dealer, I heard what honestly sounded like a live jazz trio around the corner. When I poked my head in, it was a pair of Wilsons, not the largest but good size. It was enough to make me ... | |
| HELP! I bought equipment drunk, don’t know anything. Please do not sit down to assemble the Elekit with a bottle of your favorite wine at your side. Maybe a glass or two will be OK, but after that I predict the odds of installing a capacitor bassackwards with rise 15 percent with every additional gl... | |
| How much difference does a phono preamp really make? Last year I built a Pearl 2, a diy phono pre by Pass Labs designer Wayne Colburn. At first I was disappointed. Things didn’t sound much different from the built-in phono input on my Rogue Sphinx 2. But keep listening. I realized the Rogue was ver... | |
| Wilson Audio Specialties Chronosonic XVX loudspeaker!! only $300,000.oo I will just say that when I was buying my Magnepan .7s at a local dealer (Audio Concepts in Dallas), I heard what seriously sounded like a live combo from around the corner. When I looked, it was a pair of Wilson’s, I think Alexandrias or somethin... | |
| Best Bang for your Buck DAC ? Another thumbs-up for the Musical Fidelity V-90. I haven’t auditioned all that many DACs, but did take the v-90 to my dealer to run against a Simaudio $1,500 model. Yes, the Simaudio might have had an edge, but not much. I now have a PS Audio Dire... | |
| Class D for a Tube Lover I will be another to recommend the obvious: tubed input stage, Class D output. Rogue and PS Audio do it, and I’m sure some others in what seems to be a growing trend. Or a Class A input, Class D output as an option. Just FYI, I bought the Musical ... | |
| Is the appeal to euphonic distortion learned? The late psychiatrist and writer Oliver Sacks has a book, Musicophilia, that I think addresses some universal human preferences for harmony and against dissonance. It’s been a while since I read it, but as I recall the preference is found in some ... | |
| Stereophile's 2021 products of the year Several folks here apparently believe they are in on a big secret that ads buy good reviews. I personally haven’t found that to be true. And if it were, what do you think the people at Big High End Advertiser think when gear costing 90 percent les... | |
| Classical Top Five Chopin. No symphonies (that I know of), but two great concertos and endless piano pieces. | |
| Power regenerator vs conditioner if frequency drops to 55 Hz, or the incoming voltage goes high to 140 vac, or drops to 90 vac, the inverter doesn’t care or even notice. It uses what it gets from the line and converts it to dc. It ALWAYS supplies noise-free 60 Hz/120 vac to its l... | |
| General question on Carbon fiber tonearms versus aluminum Clearly execution matters, but if we know what it takes to make a great tone arm, then this question is answerable. Carbon fiber simply has more strength and stiffness as aluminum at the same weight. If that’s what it takes, then yes. But I expect... |