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| Vintage Japanese DD Consult and Suggestions Please I think you are making this too hard. Any, that is ANY, Japanese DD turntable would be a good choice for you. | |
| Vinyl Lovers-- Cartridges!!!! Do you have a daily driver? Stylast is used before play of each side at my house. A very light brush or two is all it takes. It extends the life of a stylus by at least 50% when used as directed. Another mitigating factor for me is that in my main system there are two TTs,... | |
| Balanced vs RCA preamps The short answer to your question is, it is not a good idea to base your decision on which preamp to buy solely on the basis of balanced outputs. First of all, they do not exist for tube equipment, maybe there is a hybrid out there I am not aware... | |
| Vinyl guy seeking recommendation for a top level cd player Your finding that Marantz players are a little polite is a good way of describing the difference between the voicing of my SA10 and my D-10X. At least it is that way with the standard settings. It is possible to alter the sound characteristics o... | |
| Vinyl guy seeking recommendation for a top level cd player One of the things that Marantz discusses and that they patented is their circuitry that uploads everything to DSD. Presumably to do that there is an iteration process in their chips to fill in the missing data points. I am quite sure Luxman does... | |
| Vinyl guy seeking recommendation for a top level cd player I could not agree more. The amazing cd is a veritable bargain at the moment too. The other thing that is interesting to explore is older cds marked AAD, some of which sounded...well let's just say there was a reason people turned away from the f... | |
| Dumb question......why do you need a preamp? I can't imagine life without preamps. I own several. Actually most of us who play vinyl records have two, because the phonostage is a preamp, or a pre-preamp if you want to think of it that way. Then there is the line stage, which usually has a... | |
| A Question: What makes for Good Vinyl? whart, that is a very thorough summary of the variables. Well done and thanks. | |
| New Sugar Cube is picking up hum from phono stage You guys are geniuses! Simple thing removing the ground wire between the TT and the phonostage. I would never have thought of it. Thanks a million. | |
| Amplifier gain settings - what do they do? I always liked them, wish more amps had them. Unless listening to music really loud it has been my experience that turning the gain down on the amp(s), which necessitates turning the preamp volume control up, will result in a slight but noticeabl... | |
| Removing stylus from Shure V15 Type III This harder to explain than to do. Use thumb and forefinger of one hand to squeeze the stylus on the two stylus guard hinges, use thumb and forefinger of other hand to hold the cartridge body. Now pull them apart, no need to be gentle. The styl... | |
| Looking at Phono Preamps Whoever thinks the Stellar colors the sound needs a recalibration. It is one of the most neutral phono stages on the market at any price. If you buy from PS Audio they offer a return policy too. That is ridiculous nonsense whoever told you that... | |
| How often to you clean vinyl and the needle? I looked for any signs of residue after using my Onzow using my Wild-Heerbrugg microscope. For those who may not know this is a very high quality microscope, one that McIntosh required their dealers to buy and have available for turntable service... | |
| Spiritual/soul jazz from early 70s and later. Yusef Lateef was truly great and suggesting him reminds me to add Ahmed Abdul-Malik to this list. I also second the nomination of Liz Wright for highest commendations. This is turning into a damn fine compendium. | |
| Spiritual/soul jazz from early 70s and later. Yusef Lateef was truly great and suggesting him reminds me to add Ahmed Abdul-Malik to this list. I also second the nomination of Liz Wright for highest commendations. This is turning into a damn fine compendium. |