bdp24
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| Which components knocked you out on first listen? I take it back! My number one knock-out was hearing a Decca cartridge for the first time. The immediacy, the presence, the dynamics, the color! Makes all other cartridges sound like pale ghostly apparitions. | |
| Which components knocked you out on first listen? 1970: ESS Transtatics, 1972: Magneplanars Tympani I-U's, 1974: Fulton Model J's. All speakers. | |
| Your three favorite audio dealerships? I just found this thread, and as they say better late than never! This is an easy question for me to answer: Walter Davies, before he started the Last Company with his record preservation products, had a retail Hi-Fi shop in Livermore, CA, named A... | |
| What Am I Missing Did you buy the new cartridge from a dealer? He should have asked you what it was going to be plugged into, to insure compatibility. If you did, see if he'll let you exchange the cartridge for one with higher output. | |
| GR Research / ACA LS9 Opinions Please Are the crossovers any good?! Danny Richie is one of the masters of crossover design working today. He is hired by other speaker companies just to design the crossovers for their speakers. If you go to the GR Research website and ask, an LS9 owner... | |
| Phono amps or stages for high-output cartridges? Oops, should read "high-output one" on the last line, obviously. | |
| Phono amps or stages for high-output cartridges? I hate to think of being without Fremer's coverage of all things phono, both in Stereophile and on Analog Planet. And as much as I like having his reviews, his phono section ones are of little value to a high-output cartridge user. Phono amps are ... | |
| Phono amps or stages for high-output cartridges? Halcro's suggestions reminded me---I should have included price considerations. The Ypsilon is worth more than my entire modest system! But thanks guys, I'm now inspired to dig into this deeper myself. Phono amp design is one where the measurement... | |
| Electrostatic speakers and low volume resolution Roger Modjeski of Music Reference/RAM Labs is making an ESL speaker that is direct-driven, but it's not cheap. He is also a proponent of low-power amps/high-sensitivity loudspeakers. | |
| Electrostatic speakers and low volume resolution I just found this thread, and can certainly relate. I'm "only" 64 (!), but from playing drumset in bands since I was 14 and attending who knows how many live shows, I now have mild tinnitus and high-frequency hearing loss. I also am a long-time el... | |
| Multiple "sales" of EAR 324? Thanks Ray. You can't request a reimbursement (after having already filed a claim with Paypal) until five days after the Paypal transaction, to give Paypal a chance to contact the seller for a response. I'll do that tomorrow. | |
| Multiple "sales" of EAR 324? Thanks Al, the Paypal reimbursement claim has already been filed, it will just take a while to get the dough. I'll just have to struggle by with my ARC phono amp! | |
| Multiple "sales" of EAR 324? He was new Ray, no feedback. I didn't notice, and I'm not sure that would have stopped me, lusting as I was for a 324. Having had over fifteen years on ebay with not a single scam, I wasn't aware this kind of activity was being perpetrated. As the... | |
| Multiple "sales" of EAR 324? It's too bad Audiogon doesn't have a way of noticing a member has seven ID's on the same computer until after he does this. | |
| how do you set VTA onthe SME 309 tonearm? Do you have a nearby hi-fi dealer who knows turntables? Here in S. California we were lucky to have (until his passing a few years ago) THE turntable guy in the country, Brooks Berdan. When you bought a cartridge from him he would install it on yo... |