rauliruegas

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Townshend Sink or something else?
Dear Whatjd: http://www.vsengr.com/, or if you can find ( second hand )it: Audio technica AT 616.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
best tonearm for Kondo IO-J cart.
Dear Diamonddude18: I think that your Simon Yorke tonearm is up to the task, it is a medium effective mass tonearm.Now, if you don't have any tracking problem and if you are satisfied with the tonal balance ( top to bottom ): bass, mid bass, mid r... 
best tonearm for Kondo IO-J cart.
Dear Karl/Thomas: To let me try understand your statements that with the AN step up transformer everything is better I would like to ask you something:all we know that in audio and in the same quality circumstances " less is more ", I believe in t... 
Tranfiguration Orpheus description
Dear Andrew/Doug: Interesting cartridges test but a little useless.It is obvious that Andrew and Doug have a different music perception top to bottom frequency range and especially in the mid and low bass. I'm not sure who is nearest to the music ... 
Tranfiguration Orpheus description
Dear Andrew/Doug: Interesting cartridges test but a little useless.It is obvious that Andrew and Doug have a different music perception top to bottom frequency range and especially in the mid and low bass. I'm not sure who is nearest to the music ... 
best tonearm for Kondo IO-J cart.
Dear Kha: +++++ " I have no doubt about the build quality of the AN step up transformer but even at that high quality level those AN step up transformer degraded the signal that pass through them and the quality sound reproduction. " +++++The prob... 
Record Stabilizer on a Suspension Table?
Dear Pinestate: Rockport Sirius!!!!!!, here we are talking and trying to help Bondmap with his Thorens.Anyway what you seen on the Sirius does not mean that a good clamp help to improve the quality sound reproduction even in a Rockport TT, no ques... 
best tonearm for Kondo IO-J cart.
Dear Kha: I have to disagree a little with you about the electronics to use with the IO.A few years ago the Audio Note dealer, that's a very good friend of mine, and because an audio expo bring to it almost the best electronics audio items from Au... 
best tonearm for Kondo IO-J cart.
Dear Diamonddude18@aol.com: The Ikeda tonearms will be a very good match.I agree with Nsgarch: the IO is a great cartridge and is a very very low output, it needs a Phonolinepreamp with a lot of clean gain and with out step-up transformers.Regards... 
Record Stabilizer on a Suspension Table?
Dear Bondmap: I agree with Herman. I think that more that a weight type clamp what you need is a reflex one like the Sota that is light weight and you don't need to push in a heavy way.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
Best Amp for my Pipedreams and ML 32
Dear Neil: You are totally wrong when you rely on: " As proof, look at all the biamper-s who use tubes on top and ss on the bottom -- synergy? I don't think so. " +++++All those people are totally wrong because, between other things, there is no s... 
Levinson turn-on thump... normal??
Dear Jim: No, it is not normal. It looks like exist a severe off-set at the Levinson amp, this means that is out of specs/design and needs to be fixed.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
Best Amp for my Pipedreams and ML 32
Dear Michauyuen: Well, synergy is the " name of the game ". Due that you are bi-amp your system it is important that both amplifiers have similar characteristics not only in their input sensitivity but in their tonal balance, frequency response, s... 
Speaker match with Pass Labs XA-160
Dear Greg: I'm sorry to insist, the magic to integrate a pair of self powered subwoofers in true stereo way belongs to the crossover frequency selected: 38Hz/40Hz is to low crossover frequency, is a wrong one.The first target ( and where the magic... 
Compliance & Efffective Mass Question
Dear outlier: +++++ " I do like the sound a lot, but there is the odd track or passage that seems to produce some sibilance or distortion, and I've always wonderered whether there is something awry with my setup that might be remedied by some alte...