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Model ZSTAGE
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Hand made in the USA and sold customer direct with a lifetime warranty! Available in 120 or 240 volts.
Works to enhance any CD
player or DAC ![]() Model ZSTAGE 1280 high res image
Available in 120 or 240 volts. |
Customer Comment ~ August 2014 Steve, I picked up the ZSTAGE last night from UPS. I
got it hooked up immediately (I read the owners manual many times over
after I placed my order), and my first impression-and my wifes-was WOW!
This ABSOLUTELY fixed my volume problem! She told me Wow! Now you get
that same elegant sound and more of it. She is right on the money.
I
have been playing with it last night and this morning-doing a
little riding the gain, which seems to me that you can tailor the
high and
low end. If I crank up the Z and also crank up the SE34 I
can get low
end that is HEAVY but it seems that I lose a little on the
high end. I
have the Z about 3/4, maybe a tad more, and the SE34 about
1/2 way up and, well, the volume is plenty and everything sounds
balanced.
What
really was a surprise was that by turning up the ZSTAGE and using very
little volume on the SE34, so listening at lower/normal volumes, the
sound is complete-it is not lacking on the low end at all, which it
usually would be at low volume in my opinion without the ZSTAGE.
As
a side note, I still had some weird distortion problems that I thought
were related to grounding issues with the turntable. Here is the strange
part-I took the Clearaudio cartridge off the turntable and put on a
different one I had around and the problem totally disappeared. I think
something has gone wrong with the cart. I was using.
I
am totally happy with the ZSTAGE! Now I can listen at volumes that I
want and I think my whole system sounds better at lower volumes as well.
Seriously,
why wouldn't't everyone want to run one of these? You dont lose anything
and you gain so much (no pun intended) that I dont get why everyone
wouldn't't use one. I will be holding off on a Torii or ZMA
at least for a
little while now, but I will tell you one thing for sure-I
will only be
buying audio gear from you from now on. My next amp will be
coming from
you. I will also be getting more interconnects from you.
Ill be
getting everything that I can from you. And yes, when I make
the jump to
a MC cartridge, Ill be getting the step up from you too. My
wife
actually said last night, after seeing the interconnects you
sent, Those are cool. Why dont you have more of those?"
Thank
you for all of your help! Now, since I took the day off to specifically
play with this since I knew it was coming, I am going back to playing
some records! I know this email is probably a little garbled and
possibly hard to understand, but I am really excited.
Thank you!
Tim
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