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| Turntable and amp combination @chakster Great advice about a Japanese made DD Technics 1200, even if it’s an older used one, but I’d personally got for a new GR, as I did. It’s a phenomenal deck for the money. Absolutely, if 1200 series then NEW G or GR, not old for sure. If ... | |
| How does Shure V15 Type IV compare? @chakster : how about the Microacoustics 2002 electret cartridge and the higher-priced models from this US company? I had the 2002 in use on a JH Formula 4 arm back in ’78. Sounded excellent! @roberjerman yeah, i remember those with very long can... | |
| How does Shure V15 Type IV compare? Chak, I’d have to go check my cartridge treasure drawer to be certain, but it seems to me that the Pickering model above the XSV3000 is the XSV4500. I know you know about it, but above THAT there is also the XSV7500, which is a "low output" MM, an... | |
| Is it really worth it to get a phono stage over $10k My analog rig is super good. Surely the best I have ever had. Woodsong Garrard 301, Ortophon 309 arm, Myajima Shalabi. Why not upgrade your cartridge first ? After Shilabe Miyajima released Kansui and Madake. Before you will change a phono stag... | |
| 70’s rock pressings. Witch equipment deserve? If I get a cart. w/ shibata, micro ridge, line contact etc and can’t adjust for VTA is there still a difference between them and an eliptical/ conical?. Grace 707 arm. First of all you have to check do you really need to adjust VTA, then (if you n... | |
| How does Shure V15 Type IV compare? I find Chak's endless rants about fairly "RARE" vintage cartridges (rare in finding them in GOOD operating condition) as well as his rants about belt drive decks tiresome (to say the least;-). @dekay but i hope you can learn some from my posts ... | |
| How does Shure V15 Type IV compare? Good point @tooblue Same here on two turntables with 4 tonearms in one system and MM/MI battle over LOMC all the time. Miyabi MRA, FR-7fz and many others are agreat but on the other hand i have Grago Signature XTZ (MI) at the moment and it’s lovel... | |
| How does Shure V15 Type IV compare? My question is, how does the Shure V15 Type IV stack up against today’s high performance cartridges? I want to know because if I were to upgrade from the Shure, where do I begin? at what price point should I start looking? e.g Is the Shure just as... | |
| Phono Cartridge for $1,000. What is an "Air Core Coil" chakster? I’ve never heard that term. The term is oldIt's the opposite to an Iron Core"Compared to the iron core type, which is the mainstream of MC cartridges, the air core type is not affected by magnetic distortion... | |
| Turntable and amp combination Project Carbon Espirit is right now what I have in mind right now. I have also been steered towards Marantz. You can discover much better turntables at the same price or very close, what you're looking for at the moment is not good. Read more ab... | |
| 70’s rock pressings. Witch equipment deserve? chakster, There were major differences in quality between the genres. Motown made the worse pressings ever. Rock and Jazz are hit and miss.It has nothing to do with the genre, it depends on the pressing pant, mastering of each release and country/... | |
| Phono Cartridge for $1,000. The XA has the Air Core Coil | |
| Turntable and amp combination Stay away from the overpriced Belt Drive junk and look for the Japanese high-end Direct Drive like brand new Technics SL1200GR ($1700) or more expensive SL1200G. You will not find anything better than this for reasonable price. Rega is not easy to... | |
| 70’s rock pressings. Witch equipment deserve? Your cartridge, turntable or phono stage are irrelevant to the genre of music. Why do you think a rock vinyl pressing is different from soul vinyl pressing ?If you want to improve playback of vintage vinyl from the 70’s buy yourself a nice vintage... | |
| Bent the stylus on my Elyse 2 cartridge Buy yourself a proper cartridge and forget about Rega cartridges forever if you want to hear something much better. Even if you can straitened the cantilever your need a protractor to check everything, it can be slightly off (maybe you can fix an ... |