bdp24
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| Attending an audio show @mcrib, bring with you a recording whose sound and music you are very familiar with. Use the same song or two to audition all systems (or speakers, etc.); that way you are comparing apples to apples. | |
| SME Tonearms of Canada - Alfred and Company that sell new and refurbish SME There is a guy in the UK doing great pickup arm work---Johnnie at Audio Origami. He does rewires using either Cardas copper or two different brands of silver (one being Kondo)., and has nothing but satisfied clients. | |
| Which pickup do I sell, which do I keep? Naw tkr, you just need a second table ;-). I myself just got one to mount a TransFi Terminator arm with London pickup on. | |
| Phono stage The Liberty is NOT a tube design, but according to Michael Fremer’s description of it’s sound in Stereophile a while back, does provide great bass slam. That was in fact one of the things Fremer liked most about it. There happens to be a used one ... | |
| Favorite Dylan? Yes indeed, jafant. He started going to Nashville in ’65, to get the studio musicians he wanted on his recordings: Charlie McCoy, Kenny Buttrey, Fred Carter, Pete Drake, Bob Wilson, Charlie Daniels, lots of others (most of them playing on Ringo’s ... | |
| Most underrated Audio Manufacturers syntax’s original list is still relevant. I owned three on his list at the time of it’s posting. Lots of other excellent nominees have been added since then, but not Music Reference, Eminent Technology, BEL, Van Alstine, Clear Day, and Kimber. | |
| Tonearm rewiring @arcamguy, excellent! Brian Berdan at Audio Elements is not only a great technician, he's a great guy. I've known him since he was a little kid, he watching his Dad Brooks Berdan (who rewired my Rega 300) setting up tables, arms, and cartridges. O... | |
| Mapleshade Isolation: Does Nothing? @matteos, another convert to roller bearings! Ingress Engineering in Canada is making some really fine ones, cheaper and better than the Symposium Acoustics Rollerblocks. | |
| Impedance matching with tube amp Exactly muffinhead123. Not that problems WILL occur because of the input impedance varying with frequency, but that they can. For instance, a tube pre-amp may have an output impedance of 600 ohms at 1kHz---which is probably fine for an amp with an... | |
| Phono Preamps with "balls" ? Powerful, dynamic, and ballsy sounding? Get a Decca/London pickup---they almost don't even need a phono pre-amp! | |
| Impedance matching with tube amp "this wouldn't quite fit that range of ratios" suggests a misunderstanding of the ratio "rule". The pre-amp's output impedance doesn't have to fall within 1/10th and 1/100th of the power amp's input impedance, it's that the ratio of power amp inpu... | |
| Zeta Tonearm Troubles @bensturgeon, email Johnnie at Audio Origami in England. He knows all about that arm (a favorite of his). As I recommended earlier, a better route is to send him your Zeta for a complete internal-rewire, terminated in RCA plugs. Why anyone would v... | |
| Transport Phillips CD80. | |
| Isoacoustics GAIA question @tonediary, if you're in the UK, you have a good alternative to the GAIA. Townshend Audio makes a line of great isolation products, all incorporating his Seismic Pod. Check out his You Tube video describing and explaining it, and demonstrating it'... | |
| Favorite Dylan? Yep, me too @whart! The released Blood On The Tracks has never rung my bells, for whatever reason, and from what I've read about the Phil Ramone recordings I might find them more to my liking.Mick Ronson being part of The Rolling Thunder Revue has... |