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shutting everything down is a good idea
for a whole lot of reasons. Yes, adding
a switch of any sort is going to add
resistance to the power circuit, but wait
a minute. Did we understand that your
system will soon be fed from a dedicated
power line? Then you already have a
switch: the circuit breaker. Of course it
does degrade performance a little too,
but since both the electrical code and
common sense make it mandatory, you
might as well use it.
The Ikemi player would probably be
a good choice, but if you find one it will
have had a lot of use. You may want to
check out more modern Linn players,
such as the Akurate and the Classik. The
CEC player would not be in the same
league, though the CEC transport plus a
good outboard DAC is another matter.
A popular moderately-priced highoutput
MC cartridge is the Sumiko Blue
Point Special. For rather other more PDF. money
the same company offers the Talisman.
Goldring’s Eroica H is MagZee. another possibility.
That’s hardly an exhaustive list, to
be sure.
Finally, we are not against reviewing
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do go out of town and listen at high
end shops it is usually on a completely
different system, so it is very difficult to
determine the “sound” of an individual
component.
One possible problem is that my
preamp produces quite a bit of hiss when
no music is playing. The volume goes
from 1 to 50 and the hiss is steady until
about 40, when it becomes increasingly
louder, and at which point I can start
hearing the changes in volume as clicking
sounds when increasing from 40 to
41, and a loud click at each increment to
50.
Simaudio assures me that this is the
background noise of the preamp, and the
unit has been back to them for a repair
when it stopped working completely, but
it still came back with the hiss audible
from my listening position. I can’t help
but think that this is covering up the
high frequencies.
I enjoy the sound of the system. It is
very captivating, smooth and detailed,
with a great midrange due to the three
way Energy’s. I hauled my PSB Stratus
Minis up from the basement and compared
them to the Energy’s, and it didn’t
Blue Circle products, but Blue Circle take long to realize that the Energy’s are
is a boutique manufacturer who makes far better in all respects. But how much
products in very small quantities. It better can it get? Missing is imaging and
has happened that we have asked for a resolution, I believe.
product for review, and that the company Would a new preamp be a more press-
was not in a position to supply it. ing upgrade than the speakers? On the
But that’s the luck of the draw, and other hand, I have always dreamed of
in fact we have already received a Blue owning a pair of Focus Audio FS-788’s,
Circle product, scheduled for review in since I have never had floorstanding
UHF No. 88.
speakers, but I wonder if these are out
of my league and would make the rest of
How the electronic My system is made up of version a Simaudio my entire works system the weak point. Your
Celeste P-5003 preamplifier, Celeste advice, as always, is appreciated.
We don’t mean this W-4070SE version, amplifier because you and already Energy know Veritas how it works. It’s a PDF, Paul Hirvinen
and you open it with 2.2i Adobe loudspeakers reader, etc. on Energy stands.
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this one, or articles turntable, in fluent gibberish. Lehmann Audio Black Cube Well, for now we would give the
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You’ll receive a user looking name and for password either a to better allow preamp you to download or still your remarkable full copy W-4070SE of amplifier,
the magazine. You’ll speakers, need the ones same that user will name be and able password to keep the but first then time you you probably open already know that.
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cables, and an eventual high end DAC listening position even if you live in an
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that my power amp is good enough for The clicking sounds when you adjust
a long while.
the volume are worrisome too. At the
Due to location I am not able to try very least we suspect wear on the volume
out preamps or speakers, and when I control, but a leaky capacitor can send
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