chakster
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| F7 ?speakers Definitely with the latest Zu Audio Druid mk6 ($10k new in USA), but previous mk5 is just $6750 ! I’m using mine with First Watt F2J current source amp.Nelson Pass also own a pair of Druid speakers. You can’t go wrong with First Watt paired with ... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? I have heard is with the Fidelity Research FR-66. A great tonearm. Is it worth $3,500+ for a 25+ year old arm? Not to me, but every one that comes available gets snapped up pretty damned quickly. Where the hell you can find FR-66 for $3500 ?... | |
| Vintage Turntables compared to modern? I don’t care about modern turntables at all, 99% of them are so ugly that i don’t want to use them even for free, also i would like to avoid belt drive and idler drive as well. The prices for modern turntables are insane, except for the new Techni... | |
| Best MM? @frogman 1959 - First MC phono cartridge (Grado) This not the first MC phono cartridge, but first STEREO MC phono cartridge, an MC cartridge (MONO) invented by Ortofon in 1948. Anyway all those cartridges are garbage. You can also remember Gramop... | |
| Best MM? @orpheus10 Chakster, the cartridges on jukeboxes were quite visible, and that brush on the end of the Pickering cartridge was unforgettable.You are talking about $50 Stanton AL-500 and $50 Pickering XV-15. These cartridges are the lowest quality... | |
| Best MM? @orpheus10 The Pickering and Stanton cartridges I saw on the jukeboxes were Mono, just like the music on those 45's. Some people claim it's better than stereo. As i said earlier in this post High-End cartridges does not comes with a Jukebox, bu... | |
| Counterfeit DL103? @lewm Chakster, We’ve had this discussion (about the "protection" afforded by Paypal) before. I am glad you found them to be helpful. The one time I needed to resort to Paypal for help with a dishonest seller, they were worthless. In fact, the P... | |
| Best MM? @orpheus10 Possibly, a 15K cartridge does everything perfectly, but not a 1K cartridge Are you hypnotized by reviewers or manufacturers ? Prices means nothing in the modern world of High-End, if you don’t have a reference among classic High-End c... | |
| JVC tt-101 repair Congrats, nice tonearmUpgraded mine to UA-7082 (long version) with sub weight. | |
| Counterfeit DL103? @davelarz open paypal claim (if you paid with paypal) and you will get your money back including shipping both ways if you will have to return it. No loss for you with paypal buyers protection. It make sense to pay with paypal (always) and no one ... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges This month i have PMC-3 mounted on Lustre GST-801 tonearm on FR RS-141 headshell with FR leadwires (Baerwald geometry) ... and Ortofon MC-2000 on its dedicated headshell with silver lead wires on Sony PUA-7 tonearm. Both on the same Luxman PD-444 ... | |
| Best MM? @orpheus10 this stuff was a lot cheaper in 1960, and it was what the average person played music on; that's why jukeboxes pulled in so many quarters. I like music recorded and pressed in the 60s and 70s, some of those original records cost mor... | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? @br3098 When I worked for RSL in the 1970s we were a Luxman dealer. As I recall, the Luxman repair tech that would come by the stores occasionally told me that the PD-441 and PD-444 motors were designed for Luxman and manufactured by Teac. Int... | |
| Best MM? @vortrex Why do some of the eBay Victor X-1ii say titanium cantilever instead of beryllium? X-1II and X-1IIE are two different models, two completely different cantilevers and also completely different diamonds. X-1II is Beryllium/Shibata (clear... | |
| Best MM? If you want to compare specs then look at Victor X-1II JVC/Victor has established a new and dynamic relationship between the cartridge design and quality by investing the Pulse-Trian Analytical Method. The X-1 was the first product designed with... |