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vibe
·Distortion makes things fun…and it’s cool that they still sell the SPU(or did as of a few years ago). I love my SL1200/Denon but it doesn’t give that liquidy gold coloration of a classic belt drive with a nice MC cart.
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JwRosenthal
·I used to DJ, so just have had many 1200s through my hands. I put Origin live and Rega arms on several. I really never got them to sound that great, but put in a precision sound lab PS in a MK5 last year and it is a really great upgrade. I just got a Nagaoka sp-500 for it so I can put it through the paces with a non DJ cart.
Fabulous tables built to a price point- kind of the Speedmasters of turntables- built as a tool, been around forever basically unchanged, can still get parts for them- usually the first “good” turntable people get before they move up the food chain.
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.My Parasound power amp got hit by a power blip. Expensive to fix.
Heck with it, I said.
Got this:
https://parasound.com/hint6.php
Ho
ly
sh!t!
Wired USB from my Mac or optical from my TV. USB is better quality than Mac->AppleTV->TV->DAC->Analog.
Yeah, HALO is expensive. I certainly do not regret this purchase. Had to reposition the speakers a bit because the HINT-6 is more accurate and direct-coupled.
Worth every bit of the $3000.
Now I have a Parasounds 2100 preamp and Stax DAC-Talent that needs new home.
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SkunkPrince
·Did you have a line conditioner connected to your gear?
Since I bought the amp used, I don't know how it was before. The new one I bought... new!
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SkunkPrince
·on parity to a Decca- yeah Tom, I know you have one
I had a Sony VC-8E for a long time that was nearly as good as the Decca Mk IV.
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·Not any more, I'm afraid. Turntable and records are long gone.
I had a Sony VC-8E for a long time that was nearly as good as the Decca Mk IV.
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.No. Generally don't have any trouble. Might get one, though.
Since I bought the amp used, I don't know how it was before. The new one I bought... new!
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·I’d strongly recommend you do. You don't have to go nuts price wise. I have all my gear hooked into two Panamax units. They have triggered a few times.
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·I’d strongly recommend you do. You don't have to go nuts price wise. I have all my gear hooked into two Panamax units. They have triggered a few times.
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·I have whole home protection...not throwing away a $30k streamer any time soon...
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sxl2004
·Late to the game.
Isoaccoustics Gaia really helped my speakers and particularly the subs to unboom on the old house hardwood floor.
Don’t like spikes on hardwood floors.
Isoaccoustics Gaia really helped my speakers and particularly the subs to unboom on the old house hardwood floor.
Don’t like spikes on hardwood floors.
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SkunkPrince
·I was an electronics technician for many years.
I am also a high-end audio person.
Sometimes these things interfere with each other. 😀
@Archer is not wrong. If his device claimed one thing and delivered another, I trust him.
As long as the power is more or less clean adding a device is not going to make your equipment sound better. Nor $300 power cords.
In my case, a blip killed the amp. I contacted We Energies, my electrical provider, and was educated on their fallover to keep power available. The one second down and up just happened at the wrong tiime for the amp I had, the term is "inductive spike". Bad luck for sure.
I do not expect the power conditioner to improve the sound. That's just nonsense, especially considering the power supply in this amp, wow.
All I want is to take care of the edge case where this fallover might happen again and keep from killing my $3000 amp.
Thomas Krueger, creator of rec.audio.high-end
I am also a high-end audio person.
Sometimes these things interfere with each other. 😀
@Archer is not wrong. If his device claimed one thing and delivered another, I trust him.
As long as the power is more or less clean adding a device is not going to make your equipment sound better. Nor $300 power cords.
In my case, a blip killed the amp. I contacted We Energies, my electrical provider, and was educated on their fallover to keep power available. The one second down and up just happened at the wrong tiime for the amp I had, the term is "inductive spike". Bad luck for sure.
I do not expect the power conditioner to improve the sound. That's just nonsense, especially considering the power supply in this amp, wow.
All I want is to take care of the edge case where this fallover might happen again and keep from killing my $3000 amp.
Thomas Krueger, creator of rec.audio.high-end
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BlackTalon
··This Space for Rent@SkunkPrince, sounds like you are, uh, well grounded 😎
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.I’ve know people who have done isolated grounds, specific breakers for their rooms with electronics, etc. This is obviously ideal- but some of us living in houses that still have fuse boxes and ungrounded outlets….yeah.
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JwRosenthal
·Amen. Over the 22 years we’ve been here and all the renovations, we have discovered how f…ked up our wiring was. Mostly sorted but I still have trust issues.
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TrboDieselPwrd
·I used to DJ, so just have had many 1200s through my hands. I put Origin live and Rega arms on several. I really never got them to sound that great, but put in a precision sound lab PS in a MK5 last year and it is a really great upgrade. I just got a Nagaoka sp-500 for it so I can put it through the paces with a non DJ cart.
