armstrod
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| What current China import sounds like a CJ?? Nrchy, Fatparrot, Czbbcl,Is ALL Chinese stuff copies of other designs? Or just tube gear? Is there a comprehensive list somewhere that matches up Chinese models with the models of the copied gear?I'm willing to do my part to protect intellectual p... | |
| Anyone know of a reasonable Tonearm Cable?? Here's what I bought:http://cgi.ebay.com/Zu-Cable-XAUS-1-2m-tonearm-cable-NEW_W0QQitemZ130054561940QQihZ003QQcategoryZ32833QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemZu runs these auctions on a very regular basis. I was able to get mine for exactly $150... | |
| How to tell if the record is worn out? I went to the WFMU show last year (during My Year in New York - book soon!) and bought 30 or so LPs. Only one was truly unlistenable - the rest cleaned up fine and sounded great. I'm not a high dollar record guy, so the most I paid was $6 for a ni... | |
| Von Schweikert VR-1 question Cleaneduphippy,If you're looking for better soundstaging, you might want to experiment with speaker placement and a little room treatment before you go changing speakers. You might find your A-60s can give you what you want if they're tweaked a li... | |
| Von Schweikert VR-1 question Cleaneduphippy,Given the goals stated in your last post, you might want to consider upgrading your CDP first, and your speakers second. I used an Adcom GCD-575 for 15 years when it finally gave up the ghost, and replaced it with an Onix XCD-88 (no... | |
| Von Schweikert VR-1 question Cleaneduphippy,I own the VR-1s and, like you, have tubes in my system - I'm running a tube preamp. My VR-1s sound great with all my sources - vinyl, CD, tuner and computer. I think the tubes make all the difference, so my guess is you'll be as ple... | |
| nad 3020 vs advent 300 Tda44,The Ortofon is 2.2mv, which should work fine with either the Advent or the NAD. For the small bump in power I'm not sure it would be worth using the power amp section of the 3020, but if you had both in house you could do your own comparison... | |
| nad 3020 vs advent 300 I've owned both the Advent 300 and the NAD 7140, which probably has a phono preamp section very similar to your 3020. As long as you're using a moving magnet or high output moving coil cartridge, I'd go with the Advent as Holman's preamp section i... | |
| Anyone into quality vintage direct drive? Steelhead,While I agree the Thorens 126 is a fine table, I believe it's a belt drive, not a direct drive:http://www.angelfire.com/retro/clockz/126mk3/TD126mk3.htmlAvantgardemzk,I'm also in the process of experimenting with direct drive. I currentl... | |
| Which Phono Preamp for my System???? Calgarian,In my experience, MM cartridges are far less susceptible to age related degradation than MC, so your K9 may be just fine. I'd stick with a solid state phono preamp for now, and stay under $200 used, which would cover most of your list. I... | |
| Which Phono Preamp for my System???? Calgarian,What cartridge are you using? If you have a lower output moving coil, gain may be an issue with some of your choices. Two others you might consider are the Cambridge 640p and the Monolithic PS-1/2. I'm currently using the Monolithic PS-1... | |
| Does size really matter? :- Rolloff,Is the photo on your systems page the stylus of your 90X? If you look back in the posts on this thread, Dougdeacon has some photos of actual styli, and the differences appear pretty large, although some argued that the differences aren't r... | |
| Does size really matter? :- I wanted to resurrect this thread as just tonight I mounted up my new Zyx Bloom. Stylus size notwithstanding, the Zyx is far quieter in the groove than either my Denon 103R or my Shure V15Vxmr. Even without being broken in, it has better inner det... | |
| Fanfare FM-2G-C antenna I own one, and the results have been terrific, both with my Sanyo ST-35 and my current Pioneer TX-8500II. I used it inside and got acceptable results until I could move it out to a 7 foot fence post right outside the window. It now pegs the signal... | |
| Current Alan Parsons tour: anybody seen him? My brother-in-law wrote music reviews for a living back in the early 70s. There wasn't much money in it, but he got to listen to a lot of great bands for free. As you can tell by the quality of my writing, I need to stick to accounting. :-)The sou... |