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| Need some help picking my first MC Cartridge @alvinnir2 I have my Denon DL-103 on my Technics SL-1200GR. Even after I bought a fairly heavy Ortofon LH-4000 headshell to use it still didn't sound very special. But a friend suggested I add weight to the headshell so I Blu-tacked a nickel on ... | |
| Need some help picking my first MC Cartridge The Denon 103 is probably the best budget choice. It has a warm analog kind of sound but it doesn't offer the ultimate in soundstage or detail. I think it is best with a Step Up Transformer and the Audiotorium A23 sounds great with it but it is ... | |
| Best set-up under $20K You need a biggish room for this system and you will need to buy used to get it for around $20K but it will be astonishingly good. 1) Magnepan 20.7 $9K used 2) PS Audio BHK 300 Mono Blocks $6.5K used 3) PS AUdio BHK Signature Preamp - $3K used... | |
| Wayne's Audio Canary LOMC Cartridge Still no new observations about the Canary cartridge? | |
| PS Audio Stellar phono question @lewm I don't believe I have ever read anything that suggests XLR cables intrinsically sound better than RCA cables. They offer better noise rejection but that doesn't really have anything to do with how the cable sounds. I found in that specifi... | |
| PS Audio Stellar phono question Use your ears. I have the Stellar going into the BHK Preamp and I have tried RCA and XLR and prefer XLR for short runs with 1 meter Harmonic Technology cables. Oddly, I preferred a cheapish RCA cable over a cheapish XLR cable for 12' runs which ... | |
| Wayne's Audio Canary LOMC Cartridge Anybody have any more thoughts about the Canary cartridge relative to any other MC cartridges? | |
| It this a decent Phono setup? @jsbach1685 There is a Ortofon 2M Black on US Audio Mart for $400 that claims to be unused. (not sure I'm allowed to post it here usaudiomart.com). Just buy that. Way better than the 2M Red. And the VM540ML is a solid choice but not quite as ... | |
| Any Present Magnepan 3.7i owner using them in a smaller listening space... I’ve owned 1.6, 1.7, 3.7 and 20.7 Magnepans but have never listened to them in a small room so these comments draw on the research I have done over the years rather than first hand experience. 1) the most critical factor is distance from the fron... | |
| Magnepan owners. Fuses or what I replaced the fuses in my 20.7s with solid copper cylinders. If there was any difference it wasn't big enough to notice. If I go back to fuses maybe I will notice a bigger change. But I don't play music that loud and I've never blown a tweeter... | |
| Thoughts About Turntable Upgrades I've spent a lot of time and money over the past 9 months getting into vinyl and comparing it to streaming. Some quick takeaways from my experience. 1) A good vinyl system is expensive. Your DAC is better than your turntable/cartridge/phono st... | |
| Stereophile review of Millercarbon system featuring Tektron speakers @gladmo I disagree and wonder how you could even say that. Now it could simply be what he was playing (Belafonte), or that fact that I went on the first day, but his system sounded very ordinary. I own upgraded Moabs and know how great they can... | |
| Used PS Audio BHK 300 monoblock or (2) new benchmark ahb2 bridged? I've never heard the Benchmark amps but I own a pair of the PS Audio BHK 300's. I bought them after hearing a friend's Magnepan 3.7s being driven by the D'Agostino S350 amplifier and marveling at how much better his 3.7s sounded than mine. I can... | |
| Swiss Digital Fuse Box - "What headroom sounds like" I understand the important role of the Swiss Digital Fuse Box in terms of protecting the equipment but if one simply wanted to test for any sonic improvement is there any reason not to simply replace the fuse with a 5x20mm copper rod? Obviously t... | |
| Swiss Digital Fuse Box - "What headroom sounds like" @verafiaudio Can you use the Swiss Fuse Box with PS Audio BHK 300 Monoblocks? Those amps have 6 fuses per side with only one power inlet. There are 4 glass 10 A 250 V fast blow fuses and 2 ceramic 10 A 250 V slow blow fuses. It is a hybrid tube... |