Recent content by defride
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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...- defride
- Post #14
- Forum: Phonostages
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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- defride
- Post #9
- Forum: Phonostages
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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...- defride
- Post #373
- Forum: Power Amplifiers and Preamplifiers Forum
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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... -
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...- defride
- Post #27
- Forum: Room Acoustics Forum
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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- defride
- Post #33
- Forum: DartZeel Forum
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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...- defride
- Post #10
- Forum: Turntables
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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...- defride
- Post #2,505
- Forum: Digital Audio Forum: DAC, Transports, Digital Processing Forum
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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?- defride
- Post #57
- Forum: Cartridges
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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...- defride
- Post #22
- Forum: Cartridges
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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...- defride
- Post #7
- Forum: Subwoofers
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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...- defride
- Post #80
- Forum: Rockport Technologies Speaker Forum
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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...- defride
- Post #76
- Forum: General Audio Forum
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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- defride
- Post #69
- Forum: General Audio Forum
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