axelwahl

Responses from axelwahl

Entry-level Turntable
Eddiebo>>without consideration of a possible **MC processor**<<You are a digital-man aren't you? 'MC processor', I say! :-)You can get some Hi-MC so you won't need this *MC processor* thingy, since it would allow you to use a 40dB phon... 
Two quick record cleaning methods - enough?
What's "AI water" ?I know "DI water" = Deionized water, used e.g. in wafer-fabs 
gcph phono stage gain settings
Tanglewood: I think in fairness to PS Audio, you also can connect the unit straight to a power amp. I have done that too, but preferred going true my Levinson 326S after all. If you connect it straight to a power amp, it will start to make sense w... 
How does one choose a phono stage.
Hi,I am pretty familiar with the Dorian sound --- and SS phono-pre with this cart is a NO, NO. I heard it with a few, in and above your price range.I also heard it with a tube (in my son's EAR 864 which has a EAR 834 phono inside, the one you ment... 
Micro SX-8000 II or SZ-1
I guess not having been there leaves one to certain pre-conceptions, true. Number one of them --- horror of horrors, some huge horns never mind with SET's, in very small rooms. (Chinese Opera what else?)There was a 2 part presentation in Image HiF... 
Micro SX-8000 II or SZ-1
Thuchan,>>> Maybe you think of me as a German going every weekend to a Volksfest in Bavaria, returning home and playing Marschmusik all the time...<<<Ja, ja, ja, but you will! Weil se Marschmusic is se best, 1,2,3, Gleichschritt,... 
Two quick record cleaning methods - enough?
Hi,most of the above seems to converge with my own experience (and you may still? call me a bit obsessive...)I have had a Nitty PRO2 and it was VERY fast (both sides at once) VERY noise, (I came to use ear defenders, no joke) and it cleaned tolera... 
Micro SX-8000 II or SZ-1
Ho, crash, clang, this no funny non-morphemic sound pepa-tt on top of ah TV, and caan listen to ocean...It is an interesting point you make, and a Mr. Steen Duelund (bless his souls) had noted the different Asian physic --- shoulders closer to the... 
gcph phono stage gain settings
Hi,y.s.:>>> i'm concerned that if i ever get an mc cartridge with 1/10 the output of my current cartridge, the gcph will not be able to handle it.<<<Your fear is completely unfounded. I used the GCPH with a 0.3mV cart. Setting in... 
anyone use ikea for lp racks?
Hi,don't we need some chicks in this here furniture thread by now? Also we need colours now please, colours,: pink, beige, little off-white. Please no battle-ship grey, not so becoming, I say :-) 
New vinyl's noisy little secret
Doug, :-)and you do sound so sure of that now. He had a pretty serious 'fascist' conducting style and known for it. The likes of Reiner, and Karajan pale! And then there would Munch, Dorati, Ansermet, Kubelic, Beechham, Kertesz, Monteux --- just t... 
Arm geometry and mounting distance
Larryi,y.s.:>>> That is because the null points are placed along an arc corresponding to the precise pivot to stylus distance specified for your arm and the ***precise distance between the pivot and the spindle***.<<<That's the *... 
Establishing a common analog listening bias
Oh yes, the one's been kicked about in the "Killing sibilance..." thread, http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1245595534 and is well distributed. Doug's using it as some sort of test LP. The Eagles' "Hell freezes over" ('Tequila Sunr... 
New vinyl's noisy little secret
Oh, too bad --- I have: JavaScript turned off. Because of all the malware BS, and I'm not thinking of turning it on. Guess I have to miss this one :(A. 
New vinyl's noisy little secret
Hi,not trying to be mean about those old 78s, but only listening to some early mono versions of 'His masters Voice' (By Appointment to Her Majesty, before the birth of EMI, etc.) easily 180g vinyl if not more ---- sooooory. You got to be some coll...