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| Vinyl Buyers: The Premium Price Vinyl v. Cheap Vinyl Ratio The whole Analogue Productions catalog is nothing but a playlist of Chad Kassem, his personal choice, it was confirmed in many interviews. Old gentlemens might find it awesome, but younger people will find it awful as Country, Rock, Blues, Mainstr... | |
| Vinyl Buyers: The Premium Price Vinyl v. Cheap Vinyl Ratio The market share of vinyl in new recordings is driven to a large degree by willingness of vinyl buyers to pay premium prices. Nevertheless, there is a huge pool of cheap vinyl out there; records that sold millions so there’s hundreds of thousands ... | |
| cassettes CAN sound better than vinyl. cassettes CAN sound better than vinyl. CAN is a band formed in 1968 (Germany). | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above Also, for the 1200G owners what geometry do you all use to set up your carts. I have a Feickert system and have three choices: Baerwald, Logren or Stevenson. Thx. Technics tonearm alignment method is very close to Stevenson, but not exactly St... | |
| Where to go from Grado Gold? @chakster Just realized that XTZ is very expensive. Not worth upgrading my Grado Gold with a XTZ which costs aprox $475. But what about 8MZ. Will 8MZ make a noticeable difference? Styli for every MM or MI cartridges with advanced profiles are expe... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above Technics SP-10mk3 drive alone is about $5000 minimum, usually higher | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above SP-10mk2 drive cost $1500 maximum! With old SME tonearm and some unknown custom plinth for $3500 it’s too much! All you need is drive, the rest you can buy yourself (better tonearm and better plinth). For $3500 you could buy Luxman PD-444 (complete) | |
| Where to go from Grado Gold? Garrott and Grace are brands that I haven’t seen here in Sweden.Why do you want to see them in Sweden if you can order online? I’m not far from Sweden and I don’t care what I can see locally, I order everything online. Garrott is Australian madeGr... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above I paid $1200 for my SP-10mk2 drive in mint condition, it was about 7 years ago. If you want two tonearms it must be at least ‘10.5 or ‘12 inch tonearms (otherwise you can’t mount them). Old SME (if not a ‘12 inch) are the ugliest on that deck in m... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above Original mat for SP10 mkII is rubber mat, I think this is the worst mat ever.Below is an interesting article from SAEC engineers about mats in general (including rubber mats) and their own Solid Mat (perfect for Technics btw). FROM THE ORIGINAL ... | |
| New to Turntables You should learn a bit about different stylus profiles, Micro Ridge stylus life span is ~2000 hrs, but this is the most expensive and most complicated stylus profile (just like Ortofon Replicant-100). But elliptical (and conical) are two cheapest ... | |
| Four MC Phono Cartridges The Technics 1200G is a dry sounding deck... C'mon, you don't even have it @dover | |
| New to Turntables The Ortofon 2m red can surpass 1000 hours of use. No way, probably 600, it's an elliptical tip (not even nude).1000 hrs is for shibata and related advanced profiles, but not for an elliptical. You will be disappointed after reading this article | |
| Where to go from Grado Gold? What stylus tip do you have on your Grace ? If it’s not an advanced profile then MicroLine from AT is better, but Grace made cartridges with Shibata type and Line Contact type styli too. Also SoundSmith new styli (maybe you should try) have Contac... | |
| Four MC Phono Cartridges can you explain the difference between the art9xa and art9 xi? Different stylus tip, output, compliance:art9xa specs (Shibata / 0.2 mV / 10cu @100Hz) art9xi specs (Special LineContact / 0.5 mV / 15cu @100Hz) For your tonearm with stock shell the ... |