audiofeil

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Most Important?
>>I can't believe that people still believe it is the speakers the most important part of the chain!!!!<<Ever think you might be wrong? 
Experience with the Stage III Gryphon interconnect
Doppler radar preamps$8K isolation platformsliquid ceramic speaker cablesOur master of the ridiculous strikes again.Keep it up Tbg.Maybe you'll make "Entertainment Tonight".Does hcat get that channel? 
When cantilever not parallel to cartridge sides
JugsauceHow about a hug?LOL 
Turntable upgrade or not ?
Agree with Tfkaudio on the change of tonearm.Scoutmaster is a good table; the tonearm is weak. 
Holographic imaging
Blue light specials?I think you're confusing your job at Wal Mart with your weekend gig at K-Mart. 
Experience with the Stage III Gryphon interconnect
>I might be able to rob a bank to buy them<Only a good idea if you can pick up police frequencies on the hcat. Get a weather forecast with the doppler dohickey and then find out where the police are patrolling-then you're good to go.Watch ou... 
Holographic imaging
Are these clever little witticisms from the h-cat ownerÂ’s manual or your own original ditties created between customer greetings at Wal Mart? Does WM sell the cat yet?Aisle 5, clean up please. 
Anti-skate
>>I guess I forgot about the heroin effect.<<Memory lapse.A direct result of too much dope smoking. 
Holographic imaging
Back from the show huh?Get that hearing fixed yet? 
When cantilever not parallel to cartridge sides
>>I measured the angle difference between the front edge of the tonearm and the front face of the cartridge and it is 5.719 degrees. It's way off.<<This is immaterial. Quite often the cartridge is not parallel with the headshell in cor... 
When cantilever not parallel to cartridge sides
Photo is blurred but it looks like an Audio Technica not an Ortofon Stringbean.Keep in mind that the cartridge sides, and the cantilever of course, are not always parallel to the headshell sides when properly aligned with your protractor.Good luck. 
Stealth Hybrid JR speaker cables
>>but the Stealth are simply better, (which they should be for the cost difference)<<You might enjoy one cable more than another and that's a subjective issue.However, a more expensive cable doesn't always sound better than a less expe... 
bad cartridge or am I overlooking something?
PS.Keep in mind anti-skating is an imperfect science. There are tonearm/cartridge combinations that require little or none for superb performance. 
bad cartridge or am I overlooking something?
>>how can you audibly discern too much from too little force on anti-skate?<<Assuming a good tonearm/cartridge match, good alignment, and proper VTF, excessive anti-skating will manifest itself as distortion/noise in the left channel. ... 
Favorite XRCDs any version of XRCD
"Manhattan Blue"by MaltaAwesome sonics.