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| Anyone notice SVHS Audio best other Analog equipment including turntables, cassette decks. Even vinyl records made from a digital master (or digitally remastered) is not analog, it's digital on analog media, but it's not the analog sound. Analog sound picked up by microphones in the studio and recorded on multi-track master tape (or mix... | |
| anyone selling fuji/tdk/maxell type iv/metal tapes? thousands of them available on ebay (still sealed), this is one of the marketplaces where you can get your paypal buyer's protection if something goes wrong | |
| Purchasing from LP Gear You'd better ask them how LP Gear can help you if you wish to send your ART-9 back to the manufacturer when the stylus is worn (after 2000 hrs). This is the most important, if they can send it back to AT and you will get new cart with special disc... | |
| Anyone notice SVHS Audio best other Analog equipment including turntables, cassette decks. I agree with Jason’s statement above@mijostyn I love my turntable (that I have not gotten yet) and have thousands of records but the very best recordings I have are modern Hi Res Digital. Digital is Digital, I don’t see any reason to copy digital ... | |
| Anyone notice SVHS Audio best other Analog equipment including turntables, cassette decks. Your source is digital, it will never be as good as analog if you record it on tape from digital source. If you want analog you need analog source, not digital. | |
| Anyone notice SVHS Audio best other Analog equipment including turntables, cassette decks. You know, we normally buy original pressings on vinyl. | |
| Anyone notice SVHS Audio best other Analog equipment including turntables, cassette decks. Ok, but what’s the source? The source for LP is mastertape.What is the source for your S-VHS audio copy ? -If you copy from CD then it’s not the analog.-If you copy from from vinyl then what cartridge/turntable do you use and why do you need a cop... | |
| Liquid stylus cleaner without solvent I can explain using a few images of my carts on macro lens (after cleaning):With press-fit diamond like this it’s OK to use liquid stylus cleaners (a few drops on stylus cleaning brush). But with this type diamonds glued to the cantilever I wouldn... | |
| Phono preamp tube rolling. Another great and cheap alternative (NOS) for me was the Sylvania 12at7WA Sylvania Gold Brand 12AT7WA is a high-frequency twin triode in a small 9-pin miniature glass package. This is a very rare military gold pins version from the 60’s, made in ... | |
| Time to upgrade my turntable? Ortofon can be expected to claim the cartridge is the most important element. But the best cartridge in the world will sound terrible if the turntable and arm are not well enough engineered to retain the stylus in precisely the correct orientat... | |
| Time to upgrade my turntable? This Technics SL-1200GR or SL-1500C would be a nice upgrade. It might be more than your budget but you set 'em and forget 'em!https://www.technics.com/us/products/grand-class/sl1200g-series/sl-1200gr.htmlhttps://www.technics.com/us/products/prem... | |
| Time to upgrade my turntable? Stylus life!https://www.gcaudio.com/tips-tricks/how-long-will-my-stylus-last/ This "article" above is nonsense, because each stylus profile is different, we have Conical and F.Gyger and the life span difference between them is HUGE! CHECK RELIABLE... | |
| Time to upgrade my turntable? I wouldn't think that a 4 yr old turntable and a cartridge with 600 hours would be "ruining his records". Read about life span of Elliptical tip first, comment after. | |
| Time to upgrade my turntable? I’m thinking about getting a new turntable to replace my 4 year old Pro-ject Debut Carbon with an acrylic platter and 2M Blue cartridge (with about 600 hours on it). My budget right now is about $1000 but would consider spending a bit more for rig... | |
| Phono preamp tube rolling. By the chance, did anybody tried Japanese stuff? ….Hitachi 12AX7, NEC 12AU7, Toshiba 12AX7 or Matsushita 12AX7 ? Vintage Japanese tubes are excellent and I will give you one unique example from my vaults (images taken by myself, use links below be... |