br3098
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| What separate tube phono stage do you use ? Any chance of a photo(s) of the interior of your PAB Croft.noromance, I will do so as soon as I can. I painted the living room last weekend and have everything packed away. Now it's a rush to restore the room before Thursday.I used to be a dea... | |
| What separate tube phono stage do you use ? +1 on the recommendation for Croft. I'm using a Pear Audio Classic Phono, designed and built by Glenn Croft. It's easily the best sounding MM phono preamp I have ever owned and it plays nicely with all of my SUTs for MC needs. | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Will no one rid me of this troublesome thread? | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... LOL | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... tangramca, actually I am a former (recovering) dealer. If I had the answer to your question I would probably still be a dealer today.In the 1970s and into the 80s there used to be dealers like you describe; I worked for one in the 1970s. But the... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... tangramca: If I was trying out a $5K cart, I would happily pay a hundred bucks (2% of the potential purchase price) to have it installed by an approved tech.I don't know where you live, but I live in L.A. A "local" customer could be 100 miles a... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... To my fellow Audiogoners,I apologize for violating my own policy and responding with reason and emotion to (what I consider to be) a silly thread. I will avoid feeding the creature from here on forward. | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... ...my Koetsu dealer told me that it is actually cheaper to fly into Japan for a few days, buy the cartridge there and enjoy the visit, than it is to get ripped off by the likes of Music Direct and their repacious profiteering with these cartridg... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... ...since many of you seem to have no problem with being completely ripped off in this endeavor...If you have a better way to offer high-end cartridges to the select few high-end audio buyer, please put your money where your "mouth" is and show us ... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... daveyf,Dude, you just HAVE to be a millennial. Good luck dealing with the real world! | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... daveyf: Given your last post, I can see that you have absolutely no clue as to what the high end cartridge consumer is faced with.With all due respect, that's BS. I'm a high-end cartridge consumer. I will admit that I have no clue as to what yo... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... daveyf, yes I read everyone's comments that were before my response. I didn't quote you specifically because mine was more of a general response. But I feel that my comments apply to your post as well. You are complaining about cartridge availa... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Jeez, what a bunch of whiny b1thches! You guys need to grow a pair and put on some big boy pants.I'm not going to defend uber-priced cartridges. I will say that if you can make a top-flight MC cartridge for less money, please go ahead. And I wo... | |
| Anyone using the Pete Riggle Woody? Yes, at least on my deck and using the GM MkII E and the Mono 65 SPUs. But that's my point. IMO I wouldn't pay more than the Schick and have to put up with the setup/adjustment hassle of the Woody, unless it sounded a LOT better.But there are gu... | |
| Anyone using the Pete Riggle Woody? I have assisted a friend in setting up a Woody SPU tonearm. Here are my impressions:Pros:once adjusted, it sounds great.Cons:1- it's the ultimate fiddler's tonearm - it requires infinite patience to setup and almost constant tweaking and adjustme... |