yoyoyaya
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| Every day I see another turntable recommendation... You have an excellent choice from the brands you have mentioned. But you really need to look at your overall budget for the turntable, arm and cartridge as you can expect to pay close to the price of the turntable itself for a really good arm and ... | |
| The sound quality from DACs - is it all the same? "Self proclaimed expert audiophile" - Wonderfully oxymoronic description. | |
| No love for Legacy Audio Both TAS and Stereophile have reviewed speakers from Legacy - positively. | |
| “Faithful to the recording” I very much enjoyed the late Art Dudley's Sterophile Columns. However, I could never get along with his use of the terms "touch" and "force" - for example (re his Altec Valencia's) "More important, they play music with such a believable sense of t... | |
| Is it worth upgrading my current turntable setup? See if you can audition a Rega 3. It will sound different to the Pioneer and you might or might not prefer it. But it is a good yardstick in terms of assessing whether you want to explore belt drive turntables. | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other I doubt very much that SME have decided to change the construction of the Series V arm due to escalating metals prices. The amount of metal in the arm is infinitesmal relative to the volume of metal in the turntables! | |
| Time clock sync devices Provided a clock of appropriate quality along with good quality impedance matched cables is used, it will definitely improve the sound of the CEC transport and CH Precision DAC. | |
| Kef LS50 There is any number of amplifiers that would serve as an upgrade to your Peachtree. It really depends on your budget. This is in context of the fact that the LS50s are extremely revealing speakers. I have hear them on the end of tens of thousands... | |
| Power Cables and Wall Sockets An electrostatic and a large monobloc amplifier are not analogous. The PSU in an Electrostatic is there to supply a polarising voltage to the diaphragm - which charge does build up on the mylar of the diaphragm. The caps in a power amplifier (or a... | |
| Power Cables and Wall Sockets @imanitaural, just to be clear, I am absolutely recommending that you address your mains wiring and outlets as a matter of priority. If the wiring is the age it is, I would really consider running in a new line, ideally dedicated to the hi fi. The... | |
| Power Cables and Wall Sockets There are actually very many systems and listeners that can identify the difference power cords make. It seems counterintiutive that a couple of meters of cable can make a difference, but many listeners find the difference audible. There are plent... | |
| Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much? There are frequently frictional lags in the degree to which the prices of goods track input costs. However, the current global circumstances have created an unusual, if not unique, situation. We have become accustomed to a having very low interest... | |
| Does Formula 1 racing and high end audio go together for anyone else? Been following F1 since the early seventies - originally through Motor Sport magazine as there was no F1 on TV in Ireland. Post rules change, this season is the first time in years that we're seeing real racing. | |
| Speakers for string Quartets There tends to be a bit of false conventional wisdom about reproducing string quartet music because of the fact that we are dealing with four instruments instead of a full orchestra. String quartets can have significant dynamic range and the fundm... | |
| Speaker positioning: why do audiophiles neglect this so much? I'm another of the stuff between the speakers culprits. I have a dedicated listening room but it's small. One wall has a door in it two walls are pretty much entirely covered with record and CD storage. So there is nowhere else for the hi fi to go... |