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  1. defride

    Low Heat Phonostage

    The options I've mentioned would definitely give you a different flavour, as would most anything. Within the L3000 ballpark all those I've mentioned offer an alternative take not a step backwards. Personally, I'd look at a Mastergroove from TE, RCM Theriaa or MM Lupe before the H3000 but we're...
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    Low Heat Phonostage

    Plenty of good SS phono stages about. I can vouch for Tom Evans but Mola Mola Lupe, AS Phonolab & RCM spring to mind. Your cart, system and taste are the all that can determine what might work best for you
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    Pilium Audio in action-

    Last weekend I joined HeiHei and took up an invitation from Sonrock to hear his new system. A gracious, enthusiastic and most welcoming host! The systems main elements are as detailed elsewhere, dCS Vivaldi Apex dac & transport, Pilium Alexander/Atlas amps and Sigma Acoustic Maat speakers. The...
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    The cars you have loved, or are in love with. Tell us your car history and what each one taught you

    Tommi Makkinen, ha! In the mid 90s we had an office near Heathrow UK. Was driving down the A308 near Ashford Middx, speed up a little on the dual carriageway as there appeared to be a Mitsubishi rally car up ahead. Pulled alongside and sure enough an Evo. Tommi Makkinen's Evo with Tommi driving...
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    Near Or Far Field Listening For This Room?

    In case you've not already tried, you should be able to plug an iphone or ipad your into the usb on the Ruby and stream to your dac. Works on the front panel usb of the SA8005 I use as a transport. Sound is surprisingly good, the popular Eversolo ME as a pure streamer was no better. Easy way to...
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    New darTZeel CTH 8550 MKII owner experience

    For AVG Uno, you wouldn't need 150, 27a would be more than enough. With a high sensitivity speaker reports suggest the 27a may even sound better. Not heard of anyone running CJ with AVG but can't see why they wouldn't work well together
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    Can a Technics SL-1200G challenge the state of the art?

    A few years back I owned an SP10mk2 in an oak veneer birch ply plinth which in the time I had it was run with a Jelco 12" followed by a Funk Firm FX3. There was much discussion back then with owners of the recently released 1200G. I didn't ever do the compare but in conversation with those that...
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    AN digital v vinyl compares are interesting in the context of this thread. A friend has their TT2, Arm3, IQ3 combo into the phono section of Meishu Silver or M2riaa along with their 1.1 dac, the vinyl far more expensive, one would think it should sing. Nothing we've done inc AN setting the TT...
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    My personal journey to MY SONIC LAB

    Happy New Year Shakti. Thanks for continuing to share your insights I'd be interested to hear what you feel the PP2000 misses in a lighter (or gains from a heavier) arm?
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    Hana Umami

    Phasemation PP2000
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    Hana Umami

    My personal experience of the Red is limited to systems I didn’t know. However I know a few guys who have it and are very happy. One recently bought a Blue to try and has it up for sale already, I’ve not spoken to him but make of that what you will, he came from an ML initially and loves the...
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    JL Audio Fathom F112 v2

    I use an F110 in a small room with full range speakers. Took a long time to dial in and get them to the point where as you say, don't notice they're there, do notice when they're not. One underappreciated aspect of setup - at least in my system - is height. Couldn't get mine to disappear until...
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    Rockport Technologies Introduces Orion Loudspeaker

    Absolare ran with Orion in 2023, we visited the room Friday morning and things were poor. Bass was mush/boom and overall a big disappointment. Didn't go back however many people reported great sound, can only assume they made changes or the system warmed up properly. The Orion's were saved, they...
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    $80K budget for Speakers

    It was a family start up from near Venice called Thuono Audio, the TT was their TH400 - local friends as I understand. Like I said, didn't care for their tonearm/cart combination which was modestly priced. Just looked it up, the other tonearm was a Thiele TA01 with XV1s. Amps were CanEVER...
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    $80K budget for Speakers

    Sigma shared with a company who made a TT, tonearm and cartridge. That combination didn't work. However they also ran a linear tracking arm who's name escapes at the moment along with a Dynavector XV1s on the same TT. The latter combination was beautiful. Perhaps you heard the former
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    $80K budget for Speakers

    No they don't, sounded wonderful at Munich in a space that sort of size, highlight of the show for me. Aldo envisioned no issue with 2.9 going into circa 4x5 to 4x6m
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    Classification of some top SS amps (brands)

    Exactly my point, apologies if you weren't able to follow
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    Classification of some top SS amps (brands)

    I hope you do get to hear RK in a sympathetic system at some point, I've heard K-70 sound wonderful. On that basis top of my anticipation list for Munich in the spring was the Fono Acoustica room. I've a predilection for Kharma, Wadax has always intrigued and as for Robert Koda, a lot of love...
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    Any cyclists here?

    Brutal race, deserved winner, now with a chance later this week to = Pauline FP and rainbow in CX, Road and MTB in the same season (will be cheering on Pidcock in this household though) The short sharp climbs look made for her, will anyone live with Kopecky in the woman's RR??
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    Review Brinkmann Balance

    I had a good chat to Mattias from Brinkmann along these lines at one of the shows recently. His view boiled down to the Taurus is a small step up from Oasis/Bardo but Oasis/Bardo with Ront II/III comfortably outperforms a Taurus with the standard power supply. He'd been happily using a...
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    Any cyclists here?

    Reckon he’d probably have enjoyed it very much!
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    Any cyclists here?

    All the talk I hear of among the local neo-pros is how to save watts. Name of the game Multi Olympic team pursuit gold medalist Ed Clancy rode with us a couple of weeks back. He’s now involved among other things with the tech program at British cycling. We didn’t talk bikes (his was a mash up!)...
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    Any cyclists here?

    Yes, agree it's hard to get one's head around, one of the reasons I held off so long. Can't argue with the fact that I'm a lot faster, really substantially so, despite not being at peak fitness on the new bike, a clutch of KOMs to prove it (: It's not just down to a slipperier frame, I'd guess...
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    Any cyclists here?

    Studies show a wider (to a point) tire on a wide(r) rim creates a shorter, wider contact patch (rather than long and narrow) which requires less force to roll. Higher pressure in tires is great on a perfect surface, in the real world, studies also show that lower tire pressures, again up to a...
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    Any cyclists here?

    Think it's been a fair while since the Pros have ridden less than 25mm, the majority are now 28mm and tubeless. Better rolling resistance and more aero on the wider rims more favoured these days. Even in MTB it appears the XC racers are going larger, Nino has been on 2.4s for the most part...
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    Brinkmann Balance/ Kuzma 4P

    The system is sensitive to placement. I've an Oasis (Bardo in plinth) and initially wanted to place my RoNt II underneath with only a this shelf between, got very bad hum. Moved it to the side and a shelf below on the side further from the tonearm and no problem. Can't remember ever seeing a...
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    Munich show 2023 Hifideluxe and MOC .

    Not my point at all. I'd contend that for the most part a lot of investment has been poured into highend to produce cutting edge product, exceptions of course. Whether what's been achieved is to one's taste is down to the individual but there's no denying that the high investment needs covered...
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    Munich show 2023 Hifideluxe and MOC .

    Definitely a ring of truth but I don't buy into this entirely. It seems to me a view from the point of view of the audiophile not necessarily the target audience for highend All the manufacturers are businesses, most are looking to make a living from their business. The consistent theme I heard...
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    Seeking articulate subwoofer advice

    Guess there's all sorts of ways to approach this subject. I can offer up my recent experience that may be useful I'd bought a small sealed 10" sub by BK in the UK to experiment with Kharma speakers (in a small room). Was surprised at the impact, positive overall but a nagging sense that the...
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    Which electronics would you choose for Sasha DAW with the given budget?

    I heard Alexx V recently at a show driven by ARC 160M, not sure the pre but expect it was Ref6, dac was dCS. For me it didn't really hold up, lacked transparency in this implementation. I went back later and they were in the process of changing the ARC out for Constellation. From cold the...

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