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| Most hyped turntable, tonearm, and cartridge? Commonwealth 12/D if you can find one.Not all vintage is good. If it was a top pro deck back then it’ll be up there now. Not all modern is good. Same rule applies. If it is good now it’ll hold it’s own in the future. As a record producer and maste... | |
| Selling a very rare album Maybe you get more money if you gently erase "Hand in" and replace with "Smell the" instead. That way you would have Spinal Tap classic to sell :) | |
| single driver speakers I have Loth-X Troubadours with 10 inch Stamm drivers in a folded horn construction. They are not made anymore. They are 104db so keep mobile phones away...they can be driven of a headphone amp! Using them with either 8 W pc 300b or 25 W pc 211 amp... | |
| Done buying new vinyl ...and don't worry, the number of typos in my paragraph is inversely correlated with the clicks on our records! | |
| Done buying new vinyl Always send back poor vinyl. It is not acceptable. We master and cut vinyl in-house using the best vintage gear and the best engineers. We use the best pressing plant in the world. We have reviews from tech experts and music critics alike (and Fre... | |
| Brands that have the least depreciation Only brands which broke new ground and were built in the research era of audio (1950's and 60s) where items were not made to a price, or have become design icons. They still are the best too, hence they keep their value. Point to point wired, grea... | |
| Once you go 300b it’s hard to go back? At home I use an AN (UK) Meishu Silver with WE 300b into Loth-X Troubadour 104 db speakers. Recently I was given an old Audio Note Japan Ongaku 211 (GE tubes) on long term loan which now sits side by side with the Meishu. I am in the process of ma... | |
| 8K for a one-time listen? As a pro mastering and vinyl cutting studio, we master on these lacquers daily. They sound great, but if the 8k lacquers being sold are the transfers off the original recording then 1. they can be listened to more than once (though not as much as ... | |
| Evaluating a system - what do you listen for? The best is not to try and focus on any particular frequency or sounds at first. I am a mastering engineer, and the best technique I use is to almost not focus too much initially. It sounds counter intuitive, but this approach allows you to get an... |