I have completed the 3rd gainclone with an active pre amp. My speakers are fostex fe-103e horns of my own design. While the SPL of these are limited they are more than adequate for my small apt. with the approx 25 watts/channel of the GC.I have spent the last few days getting the systems intergration of the horns/amp.
One of the problems i have noticed is with the increased dynamics and speed of the horns combined with the very high speed and dynamics of the GC is that flaws in the source/recording have become very very obvious.Example, during the recording of nora jones at the end of some of her singing she makes or there is a noticible click (sounds like a tongue click) at the end of her phrase. Also there is a hum and a rumble from the TT that i havent noticed before.The dvd player now has an over bright mid and sounds a little artifical.
I had never noticed things like this on the marantz 2238/rs-1354a TQWT.
sources: AR XA tt with a grado black cart.
GE dvd player um modified (sold my old sony)
Is there any mods that anyone can suggest to the TT and the dvd player that will help with this? Or is it time to up grade to serious stuff? I am limited in funds insofar as i cant spend 1K $ for a tt or a new cd player.Maybe 500$ for the both.
thanks yall
ron
One of the problems i have noticed is with the increased dynamics and speed of the horns combined with the very high speed and dynamics of the GC is that flaws in the source/recording have become very very obvious.Example, during the recording of nora jones at the end of some of her singing she makes or there is a noticible click (sounds like a tongue click) at the end of her phrase. Also there is a hum and a rumble from the TT that i havent noticed before.The dvd player now has an over bright mid and sounds a little artifical.
I had never noticed things like this on the marantz 2238/rs-1354a TQWT.
sources: AR XA tt with a grado black cart.
GE dvd player um modified (sold my old sony)
Is there any mods that anyone can suggest to the TT and the dvd player that will help with this? Or is it time to up grade to serious stuff? I am limited in funds insofar as i cant spend 1K $ for a tt or a new cd player.Maybe 500$ for the both.
thanks yall
ron