billstevenson
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| Vinyl static ionizers who's used them? Destat III works well for me too. Wouldn't be without mine. I am speculating that if more static is building up in just minutes that something might be done to improve grounding. | |
| How should I upgrade? A new preamp with a phono stage or just a phono preamp? There are several ways of looking at this and it all depends on what you like and where you see yourself going with the hobby. Any good stand alone phono stage from any good company is going to outperform the built in phono stage of any integrate... | |
| CJ's New ART88 Preamp I swapped the amp just weeks ago, trading my ART150 for the 27A, but had fully adjusted to the amp change using my GAT2 before deciding to order the ART 88. But it is a lot of change in a relatively short few weeks. I'll report back after break-... | |
| CJ's New ART88 Preamp I just bought one to replace my GATII. Listening to it as I write this note. It is only 1 day old and in my experience will require at least 200 hours of break-in before meaningful listening will be instructive. Right out of the box it sounds w... | |
| Meandering Pitch, Where’s The Problem? The first answer you got from Don is the best one and the first thing he told you bears repeating: If the spindle hole is off, you will get wow. That is pitch instability. Piano is the most sensitive instrument to this problem of any. Many pia... | |
| Hudson HI FI UV stylus cleaner Yes the Hudson device is effective. Moreso than other mechanical removal devices that I have tried such as the Ortofon brush, the Onzow gel, Magic Eraser and so forth. I use a high quality stereo-optic microscope to examine stylus and cantilever... | |
| VPI felt mat vs aftermarket To mat or not to mat. After a lot of experimenting I settled on the Origin Live on both my VPI HW-40 and my SL1200GAE although on the latter it is a two layer affair with a plastic disc first and then the Origin on top. That is because of a limi... | |
| Good (great?) cartridges with user replaceable styli Well you are on the right track. I happen to own all of those mentioned so far, plus a few more. Audio Technica AVN150 is also very nice and there are others. The Shure V15 is a favorite of mine too and then there is the possibility of picking ... | |
| VPI upgrade? VPI makes nice turntables. Always have. I presently have an HW40 that is quite the berries and am resurrecting my old HW19MkIII bought new in 198?. I have also owned but traded a fully pimped out Prime. No regrets, they all work just fine. My ... | |
| VPI Cyclone, causing pop in speakers Your speakers could be damaged and you are right to worry about it. It probably is a bad power switch on the Cyclone. Contact VPI to see what they say. Or contact a local electrician to see what can be done to isolate and buffer the circuit tha... | |
| End Game Turntable suggestions I know Sota and SME and Klipsch and others also have a reputation for long term, excellent after sales support. It might be fun and useful for us to put our collective experience together and make a list of companies that we have knowledge of who... | |
| End Game Turntable suggestions Mikey Fremer addressed the motor used in the HW40 in his review with very positive commentary. It is an very high grade motor. I know that Matt made a significant investment in inventory of motors to bring the price down on the product. VPI has... | |
| Have you heard a VAS cartridge? Clarification, I prefer the VAS Nova Mono over any other mono options currently available. | |
| Have you heard a VAS cartridge? I own two VAS Nova MC cartridges, one mono and one stereo. The mono one in particular is magic, easily the best of several monophonic cartridges that I own. A few days ago I reconfigured my phono pre set up for MM and had to switch from using th... | |
| End Game Turntable suggestions I own a VPI HW40 and am very happy with it. I have also listened extensively to a Rega 10 and would be quite happy to listen to either one forever. |