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| I wanna hear some "audio" jokes...and Musicain jokes; how can you tell the drummer is knocking at the door?.....it keeps getting faster. Why does the guitar player always knock at the door?....can never find the right key. Sorry i'm at a loss for audiophile jokes. | |
| Death of Vinyl? Nah It seems as though vinyl may well outlast the 16 bit compact disk. Here's a true story. In order to get my non-audiophile freinds to come down and listen to music, I would get them to try and tell me which sounded better, cd, or vinyl. Then, I wou... | |
| Lyra Helikon SL-Worth upgrade? I don't know either. My dealer, whom I have come to trust, says that the upgrade would be worthwhile. He also told me once that the difference between the clavis d.c. and the parnassis d.c. was pretty close. A matter of taste or sonic signature? I... | |
| Match the phono-pre to cart., or arm? I second and agree with the above, and actully, the pre-amp or amp that the phono stage is going into is also important, though not as important as the cartridge. There are more phono stages available now than I have ever seen- and I would heed tw... | |
| How old is too old ?.... Mr Falls; You could use this also as an excuse to go on a vacation. I am thinking I might go home to L.A. for my birthday, because you can get anything you want there, and I don't know what I want yet. | |
| How old is too old ?.... I have had also a recent expereince as this, although at a different level. The speakers I had were the items that everyone believed were the "weak point", and I would refuse to get new ones because I believed I would have to spend a lot to equal ... | |
| RB-300:help ;I think I'm wacked I am beginning to see. I checked out some webs. It would appear that the reason the rb-250 would end up being better after mods is because it is coupled to the base on both ends of the vertical bearings, where the arms built with the springs are c... | |
| RB-300:help ;I think I'm wacked I will look into these with interest. I have heard it rumored that the rb-300 has better bearings than the rb-250. The same, just better. I don't know if it's true, but it would be good to know, just the same. Other than that, is not the only diff... | |
| Review: Rega Elys Cartridge Thank you for that great review. And also, thank you for checking out all these different cartridges. The mc20eII is one of my favorites as well. The thing I find it to do really well is it carries it's strengths to less capable turntables. I act... | |
| What type of solder do you use and why? I'm not sure if this will have any bearing, (HA!), seeing from the varieties of solder here, but of the 3, wonder, wbt, cardas, I find cardas to sound the best. how much, I don't know, but it sure seems that way to me. (I don't redo solder to see ... | |
| Record mats, VTA, clamps and my ears Mr. cheapskate; If the difference is a 16th of an inch or more, I would tend to think that you would hear a difference because of vta. I haven't heard the arum beta, I'm also not sure of its stylas shape, but if you are critically listening to the... | |
| Worth it to buy cheap, but no audition integrated I have, way more often than not, auditioned high price stuff, and found it not to work as well in my system because it wasn't a good match. You can waste a lot of meney buying blind. I'm not saying you will, but if you wanted to spend a lot of mon... | |
| Audio as a hobby I tend to view audio as an active hobby. I like to tweek stuff and figure out stuff and take things apart, ect. It is actually a real exercise for the brain. The results are gratifying. I think I enjoy taking a cheaper component and trying to make... | |
| mono lp replay?? do you set up another TT for it? To set up another set-up for mono could give you better replay, but you have to consider weather or not you choose to make the expenditure to put your system at the forefront of superior playback capabilities. A mono cartridge would have to be of ... | |
| MC cartridge? marakanetz is right on the money, that is, don't spend any on the turntable, but money spent on a cartridge is not wasted. One word of caution though, what will work well on one turntable (such as a modern one of good mass, with an arm of good mas... |