billstevenson
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| Upgrade My Turntable - How Much Do I Need to Spend? Off topic but relevant to the thread, I own several cartridges: stereo, true mono, that is single element single coil, or bridged internally to be mono. I no longer own it, but did own a preamp with a mono switch. In spite of what you might have... | |
| Upgrade My Turntable - How Much Do I Need to Spend? Further thoughts, take a hard look at the new Denon turntable. I think it lists for about $2,500 and looks like a winner too. | |
| Upgrade My Turntable - How Much Do I Need to Spend? If I were you I would take a look at $2,000 turntables from Rega, Technics, Pro-Ject and VPI and pick the one you like. Then get one of the PS Audio phono stages. They list for $3,000 but go on sale for $2,000. Or you might find one used. Your... | |
| SUT experience In the world of science we are learning new things all the time. From Quantum Physics to Astonomy to medical discovery among many fields things are happening. There are all kinds of things that are not fully understood. Don't deny yourself a ch... | |
| SUT experience Raul, It would seem that we have reached more agreement than difference in this matter. We both use SUTs on occasion. (BTW, you can probably find out all about the Consolidated SUT on the OMA website, mine is the silver wire version.) We both... | |
| SUT experience Raul, We are discussing our preferred approach to the playing of the music here. We should be adults and agree that if the elimination of as much distortion as possible were the goal (here let us ignore your frequent protests to the contrary) we... | |
| SUT experience This is an interesting discussion. I generally like the sound of the distortions added when an SUT is inserted into the chain, but find that there is no universal truth. Of course adding one requires an additional set of phono cables and that ca... | |
| Moving Magnet Phono Cartridges My experience using a Hyperion (the original) for the last few years (for stereo) and an Ortofon 2M Mono SE, puts me in general alignment with what seems to be the nucleus of a forming consensus among many of us here. Although I also like and sti... | |
| Lowest priced MC thats better than a Premium MM? First of all, lewm said it best, the premise of the question, that is that MC cartridges are going to be superior to MM (or MI) cartridges in all cases is flawed. That may of course be true sometimes, but not always, for every application, music ... | |
| Soundsmith cartridges I too have a Hyperion and agree with Rick's description of the sound. Mine is an original and is installed on a VPI HW-40. Prior cartridges included a Cadenza Black, and an original Winfeld. Before settling on the Hyperion I also seriously cons... | |
| Phono preamp, all suggestions welcome First of all I think you should reconsider your plan to replace your 2M Black. To wit, I am currently comparing two phono stages, C-J TEA 1 series 3 and C-J 88, both very expensive (well above those you are considering), and one of the cartridges... | |
| Not sure for power conditioner my amp or not. In South Florida we have a love of air conditioners cycling on and off and it causes fluctuations in the power supply. I found that my tube amplifiers were regularly needing to be re-biased. Since incorporating a power conditioner, the amps have... | |
| New Technics SL-1200GR2 The GR2 is new and has not been reviewed. I have not heard it. My comments must be interpolated by you and I hope they help. I had a fully KAB upgraded SL1200, which I am assuming is similar to yours. When the new SL-1200GAE came out I traded ... | |
| CJ's New ART88 Preamp The ET5 is a wonderful preamp too. I know because I had one for a couple of years. Whereas the GAT2 was better, though, it offered incremental improvements in several ways over the ET5, the ART 88 is a much greater improvement over the GAT2. I ... | |
| CJ's New ART88 Preamp Please consider this an early impressions report. I might write again after more listening time. First let me explain that I retired at the beginning of the Covid Pandemic with the result that my time with my GAT2 was quite extensive, definitely... |