When I place speakers in a room I start with them in the corner and play some music. Then I pull them into the room till the bass snaps into focus. Or to put it another way snaps into tunefulness. From there I adjust toe-in. Listening for the most tuneful angle. my understanding is that this is a pe...

But please don't take my word for it. Look for speakers with Accuton drivers and compare them against your Akubariks. Or look for classic, top of the range 1950's to 1980's EV, Altec, JBL's with compression drivers and horns. What speakers have Accuton drivers? Any recent speakers with compression ...

Dear friends, I’m rather new on this forum. With two topics: slipsik in excelsis deo and damping feet. Contributions about what should be a good sound. At this moment I experience limits of upgrading and tweaking. I ‘m afraid i’m somewhere beyond limits. Upgrading was about better amp, better cartr...

Here: https://willys-hifi.com/collections/accuton-drive-units/products/accuton-c173-6-090-sapphire-midrange The manufacturer describes this midrange as a 120mm cone in a 170mm basket. I don’t think listening to speakers will tell me anything about the performance of the individual drive units. Kans...

The Kef B110 used in the Kan’s (very tuneful) and LS3/5a’s (not particularly tuneful) has a 10.5g moving mass. The £850 Accuton midrange driver is 1/3 heavier at 14g. Just sayin! I can't find any Accuton drivers that sell for £850. Maybe you can tell us exactly which one you were referring to? Are ...

The sort of distortion with Akubariks in the midrange is not the sort of crackly distorion you get on AM on a car radio whilst driving near Newark. It's a not being able to cope with the vocalist, lead guitar, rhythm, keyboard player all hittin a transient at the same time type of distortion, Which ...

Beating a Kaber or a Ninka is not a great acheivement amongst properly engineered speakers. The Linn speakers that I've heard with 3K arrays, such as Akubariks are speakers that I'd rate as having excessively distorted midrange - at the generous volumes used for the demos / bake-offs I attended. Wit...

I'm surprised at the lack of comments on the design here. I've been following it a bit on the PFM and Naim forums. Still curious why the platter needs to be so high - is that something to do with the magnetic bearing do you think? Can't say I'm overly hopeful it's a deck I'd enjoy listening to but ...

In november 2019 I had a Rega Exact cart mounted on my Rega Planar 3, and indeed the difference in sound quality was huge.(Having as a reference Rega Carbon cart). January 2021, I bought my LP12. So basically there's more than one year time gap between the two. Unfortunately I do not have the Exact...

Guys, For sure I don't want to raise flames or provoke hard feelings. Just assuming that my lp12 is perfectly set, it is possible that my rather old Revox B250 to "strangulate" the musical performance? Borrowing an amplifier shouldn't be much of an hassle. The dealer assures me and he swears that m...

Hello BSilviuLu, You are obviously not happy with your LP12. Unfortunately I do not think you can salvage this situation. There will always be a nagging feeling that something is wrong and/or suboptimal hurting your musical enjoyment. Return the turntable if you can or sell it. Buy som records inst...

Hello BSilviuLu, You are obviously not happy with your LP12. Unfortunately I do not think you can salvage this situation. There will always be a nagging feeling that something is wrong and/or suboptimal hurting your musical enjoyment. Return the turntable if you can or sell it. Buy som records inst...

Presumably you paid quite a bit for the Majik LP12? If you paid that much it should sound considerably better than the much cheaper Rega 3. Regardless of the amplification and speakers that you are using. Otherwise what is the point? It's just been a big waste of money. In evolving your system it sh...

A brand new Majik LP12 for £3450 comes with a below par motor somewhat agree a below par power supply strongly agree a below par arm somewhat agree but we need to listen to the Krane a below par cartridge somewhat agree a below par platter ??????? See above in bold italic. Bear in mind the Majik LP...

Here’s a comparison between a Rega P3 and a Technics SL1200 turntable. The reviewer is focused on the sound differences, but we can do our own tune based comparison. https://youtu.be/ogiWnw5X0ZI Replace the mediocre stock arm on the Technics with something better, eg OL modded rega arm or Alphason ...

Pioneer PL71 with an Ortofon SPU Sony 6750 with a decent MC cartridge Lenco's that have been fettled and fitted with decent arms and cartridges Garrard 401's and 301's with decent plinths arms and cartridges Technics 1210 with an OL modded Rega arm and Ortofon Rondo cartridge Thorens TD124 with dec...

This sort of thing: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/STUDER900-15W-Regulated-PSU-DC-Linear-power-supply-5V-9V-12V-15V-24V-For-Xmos/113160740684?hash=item1a58e7df4c:g:XFAAAOSwWmdbUw0o Or this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-5V-USB-15W-DC-Port-Dual-Output-HiFi-Linear-Power-Supply-DC-Stabilized-PSU/273128989...

So many variables,I went from listening to Gigaport for the previous few days to get an idea of it again then did the clips ,so maybe NOS DAC was improving from starting off cold .Who knows . It's possible there's some burn-in / long term warm up on the NOS DAC. What power supply are you using on t...

I tried listening to C & D yesterday and was having a hard time - it was the end of a busy day. I tried again just now and they are both good but I find D moves me more. Yes, it’s interesting that on this particular track C&D are so close, when on the first two tracks there is an appreciable differ...

Apparently you have no clue what we mean by 'tunefulness' on this forum. Why not attempt to learn what this forum is about? Oh come off it! £3450 for a brand new Majik LP12! It's a joke. Quite easily demonstrably so. Using tunedem. All you need is a cherry picked used turntable arm and cartridge co...

A brand new Majik LP12 offers terrible tunefulness for the money. Apparently you have no clue what we mean by 'tunefulness' on this forum. Why not attempt to learn what this forum is about? Oh come off it! £3450 for a brand new Majik LP12! It's a joke. Quite easily demonstrably so. Using tunedem. A...

Or maybe I should get a new Majik LP12 ??? Got a couple of hundred records in the closet ... oh dear ... A brand new Majik LP12 offers terrible tunefulness for the money. You can get more tuneful turntable, arm, cartridge combinations for less money by buying cherry picked used vinyl sources. If yo...

I have no idea what the hierarchy is within a speaker. That's because I haven't done the appropriate tests to determine this. I haven't for example, taken two pairs of speakers with identical cabinets and very different drivers and then demo'd them against each other. All I have done is to compare a...

Spannko wrote: ↑2020-11-25 23:57 Do you mean the TDA1541A ?

No.

No typos from me on this. TDA1549 is correct.
Give one a go. A CD player with a TDA1549. Cheap as chips and at least as tuneful as a Linn KDS.

I was hoping for a bit more than “wet your finger, stick it in the air and see which way the wind is blowing”!!! Do you have a specific recommendation for even just one product which you feel is a real giant killer? Digital sources: TDA1549 equipped CD players. Topping E30 DACs with a linear power ...