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| Source of Fremer's "1 arc second" claim? @OP and Lewm - thanks for your responses. My point in relation to SEM's was a more general one in the sense that there is a tendency (not on your part, I hasten to add) that mass negates vibration. On the specifics, the average concrete floor is ... | |
| Source of Fremer's "1 arc second" claim? @lewm. A poured concrete floor isn't that inert at all - ask laboratories that use electron microscopes. In any event, isolation bases are there to isolate from airborne vibrations as well as those coming through the floor. And a pair of XVX's wil... | |
| Vinyl playback - lack of bass? @OP You need a better cartridge. Or at least a different cartridge. Ultimately a better turntable will help too. | |
| Source of Fremer's "1 arc second" claim? Mr Fremer in his recent review of the new Wilson Benesch turntable could not hear any difference when its vibration reduction base was or wasn't working. "Late breaking news: The day I completed the guts of this review, a leak developed in the Tho... | |
| Standmount speaker suggestion @OP. As others have said, the B&Ws are forward sounding. For Sonus Faber, you could start with the Minima Amator. The Franco Serblin Accordo Goldberg is in a similar vein - both lovely sounding speakers. ProAc tend to fly a bit under the radar... | |
| Koetsu cartridges. They must be something special. Re magnets, bizarrely, they do have a sound. If you listen to some Strat pickups with ceramic magnets vis a vis those with alnicos, you'll hear it pretty quickly. And its not just down to field strength. | |
| And the biggest influence on sound quality is... 1. The room. A modest system in a great room can sound great whereas a great system in a bad room will sound worse - the wider you open the window, the more much flies in, as the saying goes. 2. The system - at the risk of repeating myself across... | |
| And the biggest influence on sound quality is... 1. The room. A modest system in a great room can sound great whereas a great system in a bad room will sound worse - the wider you open the window, the more much flies in, as the saying goes. 2. The system - at the risk of repeating myself across... | |
| Magico A series vs YG Peaks series and Accuphase Integrated @OP The Maxima Amators are never going to be "rock" speakers. But at the same time, you don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater for the other genres you listen to. If you have a good SF dealer, try to get a listen to a pair of Amatis i... | |
| F-XLR to M-RCA recommendations @mulveling, fair point - I missed that. That being the case, I think tyray would be better looking at a different DAC. If not, I second your recommendation of using a transformer to convert balanced to single ended. Still, its an awful lot of faff... | |
| F-XLR to M-RCA recommendations @tyray, thanks. Just on your earlier post about galvanic isolation - that generally involves using a transformer in, generally, a DAC, to isolate the DAC from incoming noise on the USB input. However, transformers are often used in balanced circu... | |
| F-XLR to M-RCA recommendations @OP - there is zero point in using balanced connectors unless the connection is balanced to balanced. Balanced circuits are designed to cancel common mode noise, but to do this they only work if the source and receiving component have balanced inp... | |
| Moving to separates @OP. If you are not interested in two channel audio, I would leave things as is. Congratulations on your room treatment. You are losing some of the benefit of it by having furniture covered in reflective materials and also the very large table bet... | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @mambacfa Vinyl is not a "true" analogue" to the extent that this connotes superiority. A vinyl record goes through a number of subtractive steps before it gets to the end consumer and, consequently, is a long way from the "true" sound of the mas... | |
| Help needed to make system better, please @OP, I previously owned a Sim Moon P5/W5. I kept preamp for over ten years, but changed the power amp more quickly as it had more of the slightly dry sterile sound you mention. As regards Pass, you need to give them a bit of time to adjust to the... |