armstrod
Responses from armstrod
| Budget phono cables Cardas Cross phono, which is the least expensive, is $278 new at Audio Advisor and appears to be only RCA-DIN. I'd probably have to special order RCA-RCA.The Kimbers look like they're not shielded, and I would think shielding would be especially i... | |
| Monster Cable interconnects too tight Albertporter,I agree 100% - I'm sticking with the Caig.I'll just have to train my cables better in the future...:-) | |
| Monster Cable interconnects too tight Albertporter,My cables did indeed install themselves, and burned themselves in to boot! :-)Actually, I was merely commenting about what I had observed, having just purchased my first bottle of DeoxIT. Since I have no way to analyze it, and it does... | |
| Monster Cable interconnects too tight I just got a bottle of the Caig DeoxIT 100% (which is not the same as the Pro-Gold) and it looks, feels, and smells exactly like automatic transmission fluid. | |
| Music Your Wife Will Really LISTEN To with you ? My wife adoress classical, particularly big symphonic works and violin and cello solo works. She also shares my love of big band and 50's-60's pop vocalists like Sinatra and Bennett. She draws the line, however, at my prog rock. If I pull out Yes ... | |
| Ladies analogy lover? While I agree with Opalchip and all the others that, at least here on Audiogon, gear is emphasized way more than the music, I still haven't heard anyone chime in and say they're NOT a music lover, and only in it for the hardware. Does a great inte... | |
| Ladies analogy lover? S7horton,I'll admit, I never considered the possibility that someone would spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars on audiophile pursuits if they didn't love music.Perhaps someone here on Audiogon who is NOT a music lover might have even ... | |
| Recom for Preamp $400 for Forte Model4a/Spicas? I have a Monarchy SM-70 Pro, which is all class A like your Forte 4a, along with Von Schweikert VR-1s, so our setups are similar. I'm partial to 6SN7 preamps, so here's one possibility in your price range:http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?pre... | |
| Ladies analogy lover? I think you have to be a music lover before you get interested in equipment and the rest of audiophilia. If you don't like music, what's the point?My wife loves music but was never exposed to good gear until she met me. As our system has improved,... | |
| Burned out hi fi salesman I'd love to know what percentage of Audiogon forum posters have actually bought anything from a brick and mortar audio dealer since they've joined Audiogon. My guess is the numbers are very low. Is this because of the higher prices? That's one rea... | |
| Help re: inner groove sibilance on Nott. Spacedeck It's a beautiful rig and a great deal, but I'm still pretty happy with my Well Tempered and am only beginning to tweak. You might want to consider keeping the 103R - they're increasingly hard to find, and when you get back into vinyl it would be a... | |
| Help re: inner groove sibilance on Nott. Spacedeck Goatwuss,I see you're selling your entire rig. Are you throwing in the towel on the inner groove distortion problem?David | |
| VON SCHWEIKERT VR-1 OR PARADIGM STUDIO 20 V3 I've owned the VR-1s for a couple months now, and they've been terrific. My path is a little different than S7horton's, as my previous speakers were Epos ELS-3s. The Epos were as good as their reputation, but the VR-1s give me more of everything; ... | |
| Help re: inner groove sibilance on Nott. Spacedeck Goatwuss,The way the Well Tempered arm was set up, I had to completely change the way the cartridge mounted. Originally, the cartridge mounted to an aluminum crossmember, which in turn mounted with one screw to a slot on the end of the armwand. Th... | |
| Looking for preamp to go with my NAD 2400 I was using a 7140 as my preamp (mainly for the fine phono section) and switched to a Wright Sound WLA12A. After trying both a Dynaco PAS and a Foreplay, I still preferred the 7140. Going a slightly different direction, I fell in love with the 6SN... |