armstrod
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| 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... | |
| Current Alan Parsons tour: anybody seen him? I got to answer my own questions this weekend, as I was able to attend the Alan Parsons Live Project concert Friday night in Eugene. They performed with 35 members of the Eugene Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Larry Baird, who has direct... | |
| Denon 103R or 304? Actually, the 304 has a compliance of 14, definitely medium compliance, and should be a great match for the RB300. I own a 103R and can vouch that it needs a high mass arm to sound its best. You can mod the RB300 to work pretty well with the 103R ... | |
| Good and bad w/ replacing stock preamp jumpers? So, Foster9, did the aftermarket jumpers improve your setup? I don't see anything in your post stating one way or the other.I can vouch that even on my NAD 7140 receiver ($400 retail) replacing the cheap u-shaped wire jumpers with good short inter... | |
| Unequal length interconnects? After having my wife's son sleeping in my listening room for two weeks, I was finally able to install my new Signal Cables today. Right out the box they're a big improvement over the Calrads - much less noise, and much better high frequency extens... | |
| mp3 and highend components? While my main sources are vinyl, Redbook CD and FM, I also have a computer hooked up to my system to stream radio stations off the Internet at speeds from 64k to 320k. When I added a tube preamp all sources were improved greatly, but the biggest i... | |
| MMF 2.1 and Audio Technica AT-95E I've owned the MMF 2.1, and while it's a nice deck for that price it won't be a huge improvement over the Denon. Plus, it's manual only, which might be a pain if your main purpose is digitizing your vinyl.The AT-95E is a very nice budget cartridge... | |
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