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| Auditioning The Fyne 703 Soon All three models had the fast, lively and engaging sound you expect from Tannoy-based designs, but, to me, they sound substantially better than Tannoys because they did not have the slightly hard and sibilant edge in the upper midrange that I hea... | |
| Auditioning The Fyne 703 Soon Fair, I shouldn’t be commenting anymore on Fyne before I hear them. But this experience with Tannoys most likely carries over: when you buy these, get a pair of spare tweeters for your Fyne and stash them away safely for peace of mind. I hadn’t r... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns Too bad @mahgister is the only one who knows how to make a $500 system sound better than most (all?) $100K systems with careful placement of a shag rug, pillows, and some tapestry 😭 This hobby would be so much easier if only this valuable knowled... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns While acoustics are important, a real instrument no matter what acoustic environment it is played in, is easily identifiable as a real instrument. Acoustics can’t create dynamics, timbre, leading edge, inner detail, bandwidth or fidelity. A tale... | |
| Looking for a tube phono pre I’m surprised you’re having an issue with Upscale, they’ve always been great to me. They must be waiting for stock from Manley? That said I’ve bought some really nice used AQ Wild Blue Yonder (expensive) cables from Echo hifi and they’re great to ... | |
| Auditioning The Fyne 703 Soon Very good point and interesting concern raised by @mijostyn . A 1st order 850 Hz high pass will send an awful lot of energy to the tweeter. By comparison, the big Tannoys had a 2nd order 1100 Hz high pass. Their 2" compression tweeters had 2" rou... | |
| Tannoy anyone? Cheviot Legacy vs. Stirling GR My experience, going through a lot of audio gear: Companies make production mistakes all the time. Sellers of used gear sometimes either "miss" things wrong with it, or try to pass the buck. And stuff happens in shipping! I think the "burn in" pan... | |
| Looking for a tube phono pre The Black Ice Audio Fusion F159 is half the price of the Chinook and has electronic azimuth adjustment which the Chinook does not. Sound quality is outstanding, especially if you can't or do not know how to adjust azimuth properly, giving the F15... | |
| Tannoy anyone? Cheviot Legacy vs. Stirling GR @budburma I’d definitely have them checked over by a tech before giving up on them (check internal wiring and each driver for continuity and DC resistance, etc). They’re too nice and expensive to not sound wonderful after 100 hours, or really ev... | |
| Shuguang Treasure Series KT120 Can’t verify anything but whatever buzz they generated at first seemed to die down when reports of failures and quality issues rolled in. Then they weren’t for sale anymore. I guess sellers got tired of dealing with customer complaints. Personally... | |
| Audio research reference 10 tube replacement Reference 6SE upgrade will likely have a second chassis and Will be the new ref 10. Unfortunately the upgrade won’t happen for years as the 6SE upgrade really hurt customer relations, it was a mess 4 everybody. They left the people hanging who bo... | |
| How to choose an upgraded tonearm. I definitely wouldn’t bolt another brand arm to the VPI Classic table. It will affect resale value, too. You’ll be fine with either the dual pivot mod alone, or a new Gimbal 3D arm. A middle option might be a regular 3D+Reference arm plus dual piv... | |
| Help.... I'm scared to 'upgrade'! @oranfoster Sorry, I was being hyperbolic about the pentaconn input (also I incorrectly said TRRS when it's TRRRS). It was just surprising to see it in a phono stage, where portability is not a concern - though I suppose compact form factor stil... | |
| I need help regarding tube phono preamplifiers @sandthemall Yep, the Hagerman is crazy good for the money. I think it can hang with the Herron too. It does have a little bit more noise floor, and a warmer sound. The Herron is more neutral. But I love that lush sound quality about it. I've us... | |
| Help.... I'm scared to 'upgrade'! A "-151dB dbv noise floor" spec seems highly misleading, if not an outright lie. What level is the reference "signal" at, by comparison? Signal-to-noise ratio is the number that matters for phono applications, since you have a downstream volume co... |