Great / beautiful systems. Looks like both could benefit enormously from careful room treatments and possibly positioning.
You're going to hear every imperfection on your reference rig.
What does you reference rig do better than your vintage rig or vice versa?
I’ll be spending some time over the next few days with my vintage rig. The Cult Love album, which I bought on CD when it was released, sounded terrible on the main rig after I bought a vinyl copy a few weeks ago. So the album was demoted to the vintage rig discography because I love the album. Here the album has the bass I remember from decades ago. It sounds awesome!
The vintage rig plays less than stellar vinyl pressings better than the reference rig. I greatly enjoy listening to these albums on this rig!
However, I noticed that the vintage rig is far behind the reference rig regarding turntable quality. There could be other factors at play regarding the turntable.
I want keep turning up the volume on Love. It sounds so good that I want moreI However, I’ve reached that critical point where flutter can be detected if the combination of phono pre output level and receiver volume are too strong. I don’t have that problem with the reference rig.