Babybear's SystemHi Christian,Its hard for me to imagine better dynamics and a more enveloping soundstage than I am getting now with the H5000 and Lyra Atlas cartridge. I am now using the Granite Audio Phon... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Christian,I may have to audition the HA3000 in my system once my H5000 is fully broken in. The H5000 is just so good even with only 11 hours of play time on it. I am looking forward to h... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsHi Ish,Welcome back. posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Lloyd,Have fun with your new tubes as they should make for some great holiday listening. My Bendix 6106 red bank rectifier tubes have shipped and will be here this week, so I will probab... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Christian,Thanks so much for your feedback about the Allnic HA 3000 used in front of the H5000 DHT. I am happy that it is sounding so good in your system.I visited Albert this we... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Albert,I am glad that you changed out those beyond their prime 6550's. I am looking forward to hearing how your system sounds now with new Gold Lion KT88 tubes. Also interested in hearin... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Lloyd,Yep, rectifier tubes play an important part of the sonics - yet no signal passes through them but when they age beyond a certain point, the music just becomes dull and lifeless - i... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Albert,I've purchased a NOS pair of the Bendix 6106 Red Bank rectifier tubes to try in the H5000. I should have them here sometime next week and I will give them a try. Although I hate t... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemChristian, I bet you will be happy to have the H5000 back in your system. I will also be curious to learn what you think of those Bendix rectifier tubes. posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Christian,Definitely agree with you that loading (or no loading adjustment) doesn't seem to be a problem with the 3 cartridges that i have heard so far with the H5000. It will be interes... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Pradeep,That is an interesting question. The H5000 has adjustable gain settings the same as the H3000 does. But unlike the H3000, it does not have any cartridge loading control for movin... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Christian,Thanks very much.Its hard to describe how good the H5000 sounds so I am glad that you are hearing the same things as I do and are enjoying what you hear.Let me ... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Pradeep,Thanks very much.The Allnic H3000 is a really, really good phono stage. But having said that, the H5000 is a very significant jump in performance. I was expecting it to b... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi 11flat6,The Minus K in and of itself doesn't seem to present any problem to have the LT arm work perfectly. But when you make the final arm adjustments, you do want to insure that the Mi... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemFrank Schroeder has posted some good information about the LT arm on the WBF forum. I took the liberty to repost some of that here because I find it interesting and useful information about the arm... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Dev,It's great to hear that you are very happy with the AF-1 and Elite arm combo. That setup should make some beautiful music. Congratulations. Enjoying what you are hearing is what it's... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Dev,Thanks very much.Here are my impressions of the improvements that I hear with the LT arm compared to the Reed arm.1. There is no inner groove distortion that I can he... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi 11flat6,You're welcome. Congratulations on getting the LT arm. You will love it and it will sound special with the Olympos. Installing and setting up the arm is more involved tha... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi 11flat6,Thanks very much.While I haven't tried changing cartridges yet on the LT arm, I would guess that it would take me about 15 minutes to install and correctly setup a differ... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemSystem edited: The Allnic H5000 DHT phono stage is in the system now. posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemI had a great visit with Albert yesterday and I had a chance to hear his wonderful system. I am looking forward to visiting him again very soon and to do a longer listening session.I also g... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Lotus340r,Thanks very much.I am just starting the break in process with the Allnic H5000, but paired with the Schroeder LT arm and the Lyra Atlas cartridge (which is also just br... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemSystem edited: Updated some pictures to show the Lyra Atlas cartridge and The Beat turntable with both arms - Reed 2A/Lyra OIympos SL combo and the Schroeder LT/Lyra Atlas combo. posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Peter,Steve actually does both. He actually builds the arms for the North America customers from the parts that are mostly sourced in Germany and then he sells and installs the arms for ... posted over 12 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Unoear,Thanks very much.Yes, Frank has done a wonderful job in bringing the LT arm design to fruition and Steve has done a wonderful job in building the arm and installing it on ... posted over 12 years ago | View comment |