Voice Of Living Presence

Dear Peterayer, der Drajreynolds, let me add my two cents here, as I have had some experiences in the past 2 years in setting up Minus-Ks and Vibraplanes in several systems.It would be cont...

posted over 12 years ago

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Mike Lavigne's System

Hello Charles1dad, I have seen the Wavac 833 1.3v changing hands ( new and demo ) in 2011 for anything between USD 26k and 38k. There are a lot of amplifiers out there in this price range. Rega...

posted almost 13 years ago

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Voice Of Living Presence

Will visit Syntax' set-up this weekend and will report of eventual sonic changes due to the new Lamm 1.2R shortly.Stay tuned.Cheers,D.

posted almost 13 years ago

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Mike Lavigne's System

Dear Agear, dear Charles1dad, as said before - I won't go into any discussion about this. My recommendation for the WAVAC 833 1.3v roots far beyond what is normally "discussed" today when talki...

posted almost 13 years ago

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Mike Lavigne's System

Dear Mike, I will not go into any discussion about this, but my recommendation of the WAVAC 833 1.3V has nothing to do with power output.There is much more to SETs than power rated output or pl...

posted almost 13 years ago

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Mike Lavigne's System

Dear Mike,do give a listen to the WAVAC HE 833 v1.3. Here you have a SET which can drive your MM3 with ease and offers low register extension which you can't get with low power SETs like 300B, ...

posted almost 13 years ago

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Mike Lavigne's System

Dear Mike, in speaker design "coherency" and the ability to "move air" aren't related in any way to high or low efficiency."Moving air" is mainly a matter of available square inch x excursion (...

posted almost 13 years ago

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Voice Of Living Presence

The synergistic (hopefully .... ) effects between the electromechanical transducer (cartridge) and the tonearm are exemplary demonstrated by the FR-60s tonearms in conjunction with the FR-7 series ...

posted almost 13 years ago

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Back To Black

Dear Alan, greetings from San Francisco (rainy right now ...;-( ... ).We sure had a great time at your place and this was the kind of "audiophile meeting" which got to the real core o...

posted almost 13 years ago

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Voice Of Living Presence

A short sound report .... Syntax' set-up in october 2011.When I visited Syntax 2 weeks ago, I wanted to get a refreshed impression of his set-up and performance.Since my last listening sess...

posted about 13 years ago

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Voice Of Living Presence

Just paid a long visit to Syntax' home and listened for 6 hours to his system.It was well worth the trip.We listened to 2 cartridges under identical parameters.I will summarize my impre...

posted about 13 years ago

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Voice Of Living Presence

Hi 11flat6,make sure that the HS-80 is in line with the motor-shaft/pulley and the spindle of the SX5000. Further make sure that the tension on the motor string is the same as on the 2nd st...

posted almost 14 years ago

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Voice Of Living Presence

Hi 11flat6,somewhat late reply to your question, but I was kind of away from audio for two weeks.Yes, adding an acrylic platter to the SX5000 Air can be done, but I would give all conse...

posted almost 14 years ago

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Voice Of Living Presence

Hi 11flat6,there were extensive comments about the virtues of an inertia unit back in the very early 1980ies, when Micro Seiki invented these to further fortify their bigger RX-turntables. Set-...

posted almost 14 years ago

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