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| Denon DL-103 retipped with micro ridge stylus on boron cantilever & denuded body I bought a turntable with a Zu Denon DL-103. It sounded horrible. I almost threw the cartridge away but decided to send it to Andy to see if he could do anything with it. He cleaned a bunch of gunk out of the body and retipped it with a micro ridg... | |
| 180g new vs. NM used It depends. The Steve Hoffman forums are a good resource, for the most part. You can also look up the pressing on Discogs and see what kind of rating a particular pressing has and if there are any comments about it. This can be less helpful, ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Emerson Lake & Palmer - Eponymous | |
| Thiel Owners @vair68robert My Sota doesn't have the vacuum hold down. Maybe someday. I use Sota's reflex clamp, which is good, but not as good as holding down the edges of the record. Prior to the Sota I had a VPI Classic 2 and their periphery ring. I init... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? E.L.O. - Time | |
| Thiel Owners @vair68robert A lot of vinyl sounds really good with the Thiels, and I do listen to mostly "classic rock". I have two turntables in my main system, a Sota Sapphire and a Technics SL 1200 MK2. The same record that sounds bright on the Sapphire wi... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @tgilb Nils sounded great last night! I only made it through the first disc, hopefully I'll play the second one tonight. I've been going through my collection and play grading everything that I don't already have catalogued in Discogs and am sti... | |
| Thiel Owners @duegi I have used an Aqua La Voce DAC in my system with the 3.6s and it sounded great. They are too bright with my vinyl setup. I haven't used my TEAC NT-505 with the 3.6s, but it is also very warm. It uses the AK4497 DAC chips. It's been dis... | |
| Thiel Owners @cascadesphil I have the first version of the tweeters in the 2.3s. My room has wood paneling, so not the greatest listening area, but I have numerous sound treatment panels in the room, and a thick rug in front of the system. I moved my Klipsch... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Nils Lofgren - Acoustic Live, Quality Records pressing. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Pat Travers - Black Pearl | |
| Thiel Owners @cascadesphil When someone poses a question, I try to put myself in their shoes within their budgets and what they want to accomplish. I often help people who are not audiophiles. I wouldn't want to impart any of my disease (😀) to them. We a... | |
| Thiel Owners I would be more concerned about the sound quality characteristics of the Peachtree Nova 300 than its power ratings. Here's a quote from Art Dudley from the review mentioned previously: "By the end of my time with Peachtree Audio's nova300, I was... | |
| Tubes becoming hard to get? I just had to order some new 6550's for one of my amps. I paid about $40 each in 2020. Now they are $82 each. And only a few sellers had any. | |
| Headphone suggestions needed With your budget, I'd give the Massdrop x Sennheiser HD 6XX a look. I have about a dozen headphones including a few costing 10 times as much or more and they are the ones I reach for the most. They aren't "audiophile" headphones, in the sense th... |