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| One of the great things about Vinyl If you list out the mundane tasks of ANY ritual - whether by religion or for pleasure - it looks so unjustifiably tedious, that any uninitiated observer would surely exclaim "WHY would they do this?!". You either derive joy from the ritual and it... | |
| What is your experience with amp power? To be honest, there are a lot of inaccurate statements in this thread. I am guessing that only a few people here know design and have experience in building an audio component. Are there really inaccurate/false statement in this thread, or is i... | |
| What is your experience with amp power? Mono-blocks>bi-amp That is generally my experience as well, though some solid state amps will sound worse when "bridged" to mono. With tube amps I’ve definitely heard substantial improvements going to mono. If the amp was designed to be a mo... | |
| Does anyone own a VAC Renaissance mk5 SE Preamplifier? IIRC when I asked VAC (a few years ago), there was no SE versus "standard" version of the 5. It’s all one version. The production Ren 5 ended up using the same Lundahl transformers as in the Master, so they deemed no need to make a separate SE ver... | |
| What is your experience with amp power? For 15 years I’ve been running Tannoys, between 91 - 96dB. I play loud. I like tubes. I don’t think I’ve gotten to the point yet where I have "too much" power. My most powerful amps, 250 Watts/ch and 300 Watts/ch tube monoblocks, have had distinct... | |
| One of the great things about Vinyl Same here. I just can't sink into digital listening easily - and some days, not at all. I don't agree with assertions that X amount is required to get satisfaction with vinyl, either. I've used a cheap $500 Fluance for a bit, and still preferred i... | |
| What's A Good Upgrade From A Manley Steelhead? I just don’t feel like I get as much mileage (as in, a wide variance in resultant SQ) from rolling 6DJ8 / 6922, as opposed to say 12AX7 / 12AU7 / 6SN7 or even KT / EL power tubes. Maybe that will change in the future. I’ve tried a lot of them, but... | |
| Tube phono pre amps He can get a Hagerman Trumpet MC (better than Cornet, though I'm sure that's a great value too), still well under budget at just under $1300. Stupid good, fun sound for the money. Responds very well to tube rolling (not all tube phono stages do). | |
| Preamp gain vs. poweramp sensitivity @paulfolbrecht Yes, you were thinking about this right. Excellent numeric breakdowns by @herman! Sensitivity in power amps is a voltage input number that has to be referenced against a specific output power level (225 Watts in your case) to reso... | |
| What's A Good Upgrade From A Manley Steelhead? Wish I’d heard a Steelhead - almost bought a used one last year. What do you want to hear from its replacement? More detail & transparency? More warmth and body? More dynamic sound? All of that? (that’s hard to pull off lol). Herron VTPH-2A... | |
| Best turntable under $4000 I have an RT85 and actually like it! Nice sounding deck. I also now have 3 high-end decks: Clearaudio Innovation Compact, Master Innovation, SOTA Nova V. Yes, the high end decks are better. The weaknesses of the RT85: Bad energy management fro... | |
| Stylus gauge recommendations ? I use the Ortofon scale and really like it. I had the Riverstone but it gave me some trouble, I honestly forget what / how, but I chunked it a long time ago 😅 | |
| Concerningly loud pops in vinyl playback Additional notes: Resistive loading made no difference at all. I was overloading the power amp, not the phono or preamp stages 😭 EMI / RFI was not a factor. Rolling out tubes made no difference (and I rolled all of them) - this wasn’t a tube goi... | |
| Concerningly loud pops in vinyl playback Welp I’m now 100% certain this case has a very simple explanation: power amp clipping. The 2 amps I’d been using were very similar in power: 100 Watts/ch tubes and 120 Watts / ch SS. Swapping in the 250 Watts/ch Rogue Apollo Dark, and it sails thr... | |
| Help me choice Audioquest speaker cables Any general suggestions on Silver vs Copper, which cable placements will most likely make a difference as well as if I should replace the AC cables on any of the equipment (of course the Niagara does not come with a power cable. Thats everything... |