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| Idler wheel drive vs Belt You can have a refurbished Technics sp10 Mk II with warranty, a high end plinth, and a tonearm (sme or audio note arm 2; ie, rb300 with seamless run of audio note silver wire to RCA termination) for about 2000 US (I think; not positive if Euro or ... | |
| Best Neil Young Album? ambulance blues and for the turnstiles....they shine | |
| Phono preamp or preamp with phono selection ???? Also,,,used Audio Research SP9 and SP9 Mk II units are great values. You must assume you will put material money in servicing them since they are 15 years or more old. The MkII brings materially more money but I have no idea if it is worth the ext... | |
| Best Neil Young Album? Hawks and DovesAfter the Gold rushTonight's The NightOne The BeachNeil Young self titled (first album)Everybody Knows This Is NowhereZuma (classic...esp the CSNY cut)Comes A TimeHarvest And.....Old Ways.... these are all classics | |
| Step-Up or Not to Step-Up: This is the Question Check out the line of Audio Note transformers. They have excellent products. The used vintage Kondo transformers are simply the best but at 3000 used it should be.check out the AN trannies at:http://www.triodeandco.com/04us_prices.htmlThe ANS2 loo... | |
| Phono preamp or preamp with phono selection ???? Both ways are excellent; the dedicated phono preamp might work out to more money but it might now. There is a used Hagerman Trumpet for sale that runs with just about anything short of units costing MUCH more. At 1195 it is a deal. Add a line stag... | |
| The black hole of component repair? I have owned some Audio Note pieces since 1995 and when they required service and I used Nick Gowan at Truesound (gowan@tsound.com) who sold me the stuff at retail originally. DAC required a chip; same day repair while I waited and he upgraded the... | |
| Idler wheel drive vs Belt Divo,A place called Stirling Electronics sells refurbished Technics SP10 Mk II direct drive motors and the prices are not bad, actually. This company also can provide a custom plinth for the SP10 as well as SME and Audio Note rewired rega arms. Lo... | |
| Idler wheel drive vs Belt Check the price on a complete Shindo Lab completed 301 with the Ortofon arm. It is extremely expensive and in a completely different price category than such beasts as Teres, Scheu, VPI, Transrotor; same thing for the Loricraft. I think the "new" ... | |
| Tally up best amplifier ever Do not forget Professor Lirpa's marvellous products; they were a legend in their own time. The Lirpa products were a brief and infinitesimally small point of genius little recognized. Lirpa products were either far ahead of their time or far behin... | |
| Best cassette deck for transferring to cdr? Second the vote for the C7A. it is one of the few decks that allows azimuth adjustment for playback. Most high end cassette decks had all sorts of adjustments for recording but playback adjustments were not found other than the usual tape type sel... | |
| Who thinks they got the best deal on Audiogon? My best deal was a pair of Sony branded inline moving coill transformers for 20 bux on EBAY; they are made by Ortofon. Ortofon sold the same exact things as Ortofon branded; think there was a fellow trying to sell his in original packaging ( have ... | |
| Suggestions for a transport under $1000 Used Cal Audio Delta....or, a kit that uses the same transport as the Levinson Reference CD transport..nice looking chassis and a top loader...this is a quality transport...http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?dgtlplay&1116267700 | |
| Equipment Set-up Recommendations? sit down when you are listening..ie, don't walk, don't jump up and down...cheapest solution. n'est ce pas? | |
| Idler wheel drive vs Belt Any of the various drive systems..belt, direct drive, and idler can work well is designed correctly and executed correctly with excellent isolation and resonance control. Main reason belt drive tables have proved so popular with high end is, in my... |