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Thank U so much!!!

I’m a little late to the Roon game. Sounds great with my items and sundaras. This tip video was great and I’ll try it when I get home.

Can I use Roon to simply upscale tracks that I mixed long time ago and not happy with the quality? not for streaming just to upscale my music. doesn't it work for that?

Very impressed , as a new Roon user , opened my eyes or should I say ears.

The AR XA I have already mentioned about noise wise is dead quiet. A perfect transport to tape recordings or digital.

The rewards of saving these Ar's or any turntables is outstanding to say the least! Then you get gobs of more years of more wonderful music to listen to. New music mostly sucks and then some. Take your time tweaking. Less coffee is better. A lot of the better turntables have microscopic screws etc. There is no room for errors.

Update! I just spent at least 2 hours tweaking my tone arm. I was having a horrible time for no reason suddenly keeping the tracking weight correct. Turns out the barrel pivot grease had turned to sticky goo and so I had to back off both tonearm pivot screws "carefully " ( They are tiny! Do not lose them! ) and lift the tonearm off the vertical shaft which also has has a tiny Derlin washer on the end of it! (Do not lose that either!) Be careful removing the center tone arm shaft also for there are bearings that could fall off on the floor if one sticks to the shaft pulling it out.! Game over if you cannot find them. I used Lubriplate #105 after cleaning the barrel pivot. Then after all this, there is a matter of tweaking the tonearm pivot screws and the vertical shaft to the right tension. Trust me it is worth it spending the time on this turntable. It is now playing perfectly again. AR XA turntables rival Thorens any day of the week. Double album Super Tramp Live in Paris with a vintage Shure V15 III cartridge is heavenly on this turntable at 1.25 grams tracking weight.

Just have fun with your gear and be careful on mods so as to not destroy any originality of it. Thank me later.

My shallow groove clean non scratched record K-Tel acid test is going perfectly on my AR right now. I call it good and then some.

Bottom line is, no matter what,,, if it suites you that is all that really matters.

I have been running turntables my whole life. Age catching up now but honestly nothing like original analog records. There are a few exceptions. (1) Bridges To Babylon by The Stones. (2) Red Molly Love and other Tragedies off the top of my head that are digital recordings. Maybe not from the get go but still ended up on a cd.

The AR XA used to be used by record companies to review the master copy LP's before giving the ok on mass production as I understand.

The AR, XA is massively quiet between tracks and during songs thanks to the the 3 point spring suspension system and are adjustable to be sure you are 1/4" between the "platter and the plinth" evenly no load. With a record should be about 1/8th inch distance. Buying (The Q Up) automatic tone arm lift for mine so it picks the tonearm up at the end of the record soon.

If you want to do the acid test on tonearm tracking on the AR get ya any in great condition K-Tel album with a million songs on it and super shallow grooves and if you are set up right it will not skip or hang.

You will be amazed by the difference in sound that turntable mats can make though.

If serviced it is an off the charts amazing turntable still! Just installed a vintage Shure V15 III on my AR XA and tweaked tracking to 1.25 grams and it is blowing my mind. "Hint" if a said record sounds slightly less lively try an acrylic mat. Will give you tight bass and more detail on the top end of the frequency range. If a record is a bit on the bright side lay a cork or wool or rubber mat on the platter then the record of course.. It is amazing how much control you have with this turntable and it is a super winner for recording to tape or possibly with a in line phono pre-amp to digital. For me once that happens ( digital) game over. Analog rules from the original source period.

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I have been using Roon full time in my system for 5 years now and I didn't know 1/2 of what you explained. I can't wait to experiment. Thank you so much!

You will not get real drum sound from those speakers . And that ps dac that hisses away ! Ps audio is cheaply built Paul is a liar and he cant hear ! And will not pay to use top notch parts !

Have any of you actually upgraded / modified the passive crossover using better parts / values? If so, what did you do? How did it improve their sound? Can the "active crossover" be used to replace the internal stock crossover? If so, what did you do and how did you do it? It would seem that you could use an active crossover to connect to each of the two mid & treble panels, while bypassing the bass to REL subs that would allow tuning of the crossover points. Has anyone done this? If so, what did you do and how did you do it?

thank you very much . very good !!

Great review. Thank you. I have an unrelated question: what are the best options to purchase hi fidelity music online? In the video I noticed your Jazz selection. The few places I go to do not have a very deep libraries when it comes to Jazz.

what do you suggest for power minimum

martin logan has a nice line of subs.the ten inch sealed is good for music with built in crossover selection and level control.

Still,Audirvana is considered,by many people,better in sound quality than Roon !...

Great video. Roon is better than ever in 2024!

I think it's funny to note the meager fuse wire supplied (and found satisfactory) by the makers of Magnepan is being questioned. Yet our enormous overkill speaker cables, are not. Our expensive cables must be right (perhaps to justify the cost) so the fuse must be wrong. Thinking outside of the (speaker) box imagine producing a new line of ultra thin speaker cables (could still be expensive, 😉) that everyone must now get to correct their systems.

Hi, I am have assembled the speakers and connected to amplifier but it is not working. please let me know what may be the problem.

I've had Maggie 1.6 for over 20 years and never blew a fuse. I think at this age the risk is low enough to remove them. I either am putting better fuses or just going to redo the crossover and just remove fuses altogether.

i have DIY 8 inch in transmission boxes 2 ohms and 1 ohm rated speakers. They are made in Serbia and those sounds absolutely fantastic. I do have handmade germanium stereo amp at 2 ohms. at about 40 watts. Also i have various NAD amps and recievers that can handle those speakers without any problem, but the sound is dull and not that detailed in comparison with germanium amp. In germanium amp ther are main 2x4 AD 161/162 transistors in amp section and drive BC 187/188 transistors. In general i am looking for a good class D or class AB amp handmade or factory amp.

How strange. So many people say they love their maggies yet there are endless videos about upgrading all of them.

same sentiments as one of the follow comments, stop interrupting Alberto.

Regardless of age, if a turntable is good, it's good. Some modern gear is nothing more than a rip off of tried and tested designs. Let's be honest, a turntable is a basic device spinning a platter with a minimum of two speeds and holding the speeds constant. It's not rocket science for goodness sake, and to manufacture one is not a difficult process in this day and age. Its just that some people try to tell you that you need something fancy and elaborate that costs thousands upon thousands of pounds when in reality you don't. The AR, along with many other older turntables do a very good job of dragging your rock through the grooves of your precious plastic.

I wonder if I could get one of those DIY PCB to make me a copy of that? Not for sale of course but just alot cheaper to get done that way. Would be interesting to find out.

Thanks for this overview - it was very in-depth, and benefits from your obvious foundation of knowledge of hifi audio. I've been intermittently following these projects for some time and your video helped nudge me towards finding a use case for all these extra Pis lying around (grin).

I have refurbished my 1977 AR XB1 which has the original arm design. Cleaned all the bearings and got hold of a milled belt (critical). Tracks an AT 540ML perfectly at 2g. Drives a Marantz 8006 amp (great phono stage and pure analogue) and AE 500s on SolidSteel stands each with a REL sub in stereo mode (3k of speakers). My little AR performs brilliantly in such august company. What’s hilarious is I found the original receipt - about $120 including a Shure cartridge at the time. Soon upgraded that to a Fidelity Research 101 microline cartidge. That still works too….old stuff is great…

I saw a photo where metallic green Nichicon electrolytic capacitors can be seen on the phono board. These are non-polarized electrolytic capacitors that last not forever and are probably not intended for the operating voltages.😉

Thank you very much for the education

found ya!

How about, "Maybe you don't know" Otherwise it sounds damn patronizing.

changes a fuse ... thinks he ears more air ... sure buddy, crack cocaine is one hell of a drug ...

Lord of class D

I have an AR Xa turntable I bought at a garage sale for $15.00. Stock everytrhing. However, having problems with my tonearm, since falling off the top shelf of my media cabinet down the stairs of my apartment. It now skips across the grooves of the record without tracking inside them. I tried using a bubble level to balance the turntable, but to no avail. What can I do to repair it?

I'm also completely replacing the stock crossover with one from GR-Reseach. It has very high quality poly caps and air core inductors. Plus it keeps the tweeter section from playing as low as factory crossover eliminating need for cheap fuse. And finally gets rid of the crummy factory speaker terminals and all that sound degrading ferro magnetic parts.

An AR turntable, with an aftermarket arm, is NOT an AR turntable.

To jest zwyczajna reklama i tyle.

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Is one of these crossovers required for each speaker?

I normally see tubes and run the other way. Rally fast. I am for the advancement of the audio experience, not for the snobbery and the retrograde approaches. That being said: Have you heard this amp with your ears? I have. It was at the 2022 Florida International Audio Expo. To my ears, this was the most musical presentation of the show. I hate to admit it. But I want to know more about it, because it was just so natural. I heard the instruments, not the speakers... Again. I'm not saying it was the amp. It may have been the speakers or the combination of both. But it was magical.

The best way to run a high pass filter is to simply put a cap on the positive on connection between pre and power amp. This not only takes a load off the main speakers, but off the amp. The cheap ones from Amazon are garbage, but super simple to build and you can spec high end poly caps. I'm doing mine integrated into an interconnect cable using Jantzen Z-caps.