rauliruegas
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| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge @kevemaher : Grace load values for the F9 produce a flat FR ( quadraphonic or not. ). " The very small decrease in low freq response below 100Hz does not, to my mind and ears, drive my system beyond neutral. " The key words in your statement... | |
| Best Full-Function Preamplifier Hi: this is 3160 information and the 3180 is even better not for a very wide margin because at this top quality level is not an easy task to outperforms audio units but we think we did it and I'm ejoying: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFqOWFzX... | |
| Best Full-Function Preamplifier Dear @dodgealum and analog friends: I think that this thread is really more important that what we could think and this is my " understanding " about: Why? because we invest money and a lot of time to fine tunning each one of us analog rig: T... | |
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity Dear @sbank : Hi. Please read the @chowkwan post and look why he posted that. Interesting for say the least. R. | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge @kevemaher : Btw, Grace 9 series motor cartridge was designed to run at 100k not 47k to play the CD-4 recordings of those times. Other cartridges runs at the same load impedance for the same issue like Empire. R. | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge @kevemaher : " I'd consider my system neutral. " Maybe measured " neutral " but exist several levels/steps of system measured " neutral " Your system " looks " as an average or a little below average system and ovbiously it performs inside that ... | |
| MM Phono Stages With Greater Than 40 dB of Gain? @mulveling : 3180 is even a " little " better. Please contact: rauliruegas@hotmail.com R. | |
| Let's Say A Guy Wanted To Chose Between A Koetsu Jade and Dear @mulveling : My system is not exactly a warmer one more in the alive side ( with low low distortion levels. ) and for some reason the Blue Lace did not " sparkly " here but that was the sample I listened. I think that exist little diferences... | |
| Best Full-Function Preamplifier Dear @dodgealum : Essential 3180 that’s a true challenge for over 120K separates units like FM Acoustics or CH and better than Boulder or Dartzeel and the like. It's an active high gain balanced dual mono non-feedback fully discrete overall desig... | |
| Let's Say A Guy Wanted To Chose Between A Koetsu Jade and @mulveling : The one Koetsu that like me ( at least the sample I listened ) was/is the Coralstone. R. | |
| MM Phono Stages With Greater Than 40 dB of Gain? @lewm : You are right, your 3160 came with the normal gain but the MC2000 it's not a normal output level MC. It needs 85-86db that the 3180 does it with very low noise, a beauty or through its MM stage that comes with 100k fixed impedance that l... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum @mijostyn : " in terms of stiffness and resonance. " the EPA 100MK2 is even better. R. | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge @kevemaher : Obviously your Rane is not helping you to for your ears " problem " and gain/loading for the Hana/Shelter neither. The Rosewood is way different performer and that's one reason you like it because is not so " agressive " . One sourc... | |
| Let's Say A Guy Wanted To Chose Between A Koetsu Jade and @daveyf : Agree, I was something " extreme " about. The issue is that musical almost means different " things " to audiophiles is a to " wide " word and that's why I usually do not use it. R. | |
| MM Phono Stages With Greater Than 40 dB of Gain? Dear @mulveling : " No active MC stage on earth of going to amplify that 0.05mV on its own, without the help of a SUT and without rendering a MASSIVE noise floor." Not exactly the 3180 can do it and even that you don’t own the MC2000 that pho... |