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    Your "secondary" living room system

    Secondary system for watching Crunchyroll & Netflix in the bedroom. Speakers are a pair of ATC SCM19. Decoding durties fall on ARC DAC8.
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    Seeking recommendation for SUT to suit high impedance cartridges

    Hi, I am looking for options on a suitable SUT for these 2 cartridges : Item Brand Model cartridge Impedance Output 1 Clearaudio Goldfinger Mk2 50ohm 0.7mV 2 Benz Mico LPS 38ohm 0.34mV (supposedly at 3.3cm/s) Phono amp is a Phasemation EA2000 (the T2000 although mentioned as being...
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    Which Giya for my room ?

    Well, some time has passed & the house rebuild is inching along. Likely, it will be ready by the end of this year. I am still fixated on the Vivid but likely will go for the G2 (if my wallet allows). I heard the G2 with top Nagra & was gobsmacked. However, I do not want to afford the Nagras. So...
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    New Arrival.... Phasemation PP-5000 MC Reference Cartridge

    shakti, Thanks for the quick response. We have the same table and phono. I do have the DLC Glanz MH124 that has a Tiger Eye mounted at the moment. Have to think hard to spend this type of money on a cart :).
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    New Arrival.... Phasemation PP-5000 MC Reference Cartridge

    So, I may have have an opportunity to purchase a PP5000. I do like the PP2000 (mounted on a Groove master III I think) paired with the EA2000 a lot. However, my speakers are Focals which can be a little unforgiving with brigther source (but is on the mend to becoming more mellow by the year...
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    Why no love for Focal?

    See, that's why I mentioned elsewhere that the Focal Utopia is easily misunderstood. When I took delivery of the Stellas, they sounded thin, bright and sibilance a plenty. Less than well recorded music sounded excruciating. I wanted to throw them away but could not afford to. Wanted to swap...
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    Why no love for Focal?

    Wow this is news to me. However, the prices as shown are really not realistic. I own a pair of Stellas but it took me years to get tame it. I really like it now but my next pair of speakers are unlikely to be Focals. Too much work and time to get them burned in. Time is a diminishing commodity...
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    Amp for Focal Stella Utopia

    LL21, A bit of a story if you don't mind it being boring. Before the Stella, I had the ProAc Carbon 8. Paired them with ARCs and Gryphon. Naim was never in consideration. My acquaintance, who also has the Carbon 8s, paired them with Naim 500 series amp. His set is the next town over. One fine...
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    Amp for Focal Stella Utopia

    Quite some time has passed. At this point in time, my take is that the Stella Utopia is a rather misunderstood pair of speakers. Most people who aren't owners or maybe even those who are but are prone to quick fire swaps will find them bright and shrill as I did for the first year of ownership...
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    Aavik S-280

    Seeking info & advice from fellow enthusiasts on this mid level streamer from Aavik. Any experience ?
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    Luxman new M-10X power amplifier

    What does bridging bring to the table ?
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    Which turntable do you prefer and why?

    The silicone feet upgrade costs a pretty penny but helped me reduce much of the motor noise transmitted through the rack platform. For some reason, the Phasemation PP2000 is very sensitive to this. Again, the mechinical nature of this playback device is very interesting.
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    Which turntable do you prefer and why?

    For me, the turntable is a mechanical device. It definitely has a huge impact to the sound of the TT system. End of the day, it's about matching (quite the cliche I know). In the context of my system, I have 2 tables with similar arms & cartridge. FR64S + Koetsu Blue Azule on the Avid Acutus SP...
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    LP flattener

    Well, I have had my ORB DF-01iA+ (improved model over the DF-01iA non + model) since November 2022. Since then, I have put through about 15-20 records. So far, it's 100% success rate for me. For more severely warped records, I put it through the cycle twice. I use the 4hr cycle on medium. There...
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    Koetsu

    I also want to hoard but I have no source so for now money still with my employer.
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