chakster
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| New to vinyl - How to get the best out of old classical discs? Genre of music is irrelevant for your cartridge, a good cartridge will play all genres of music equally. | |
| New to vinyl - How to get the best out of old classical discs? Replace your Ortofon Red - this is the weak link, get advanced stylus profile for much better frequency response and accuracy. Ortofon Black if you want to stay with same cartridge body and almost the same settings. Or completely different cartrid... | |
| why are built-in turntable rca cords so short? If you want to run cables on a long distance you need balanced (XLR), not unbalanced RCA. Cable capacitance is critical for MM cartridges, the length of unbalanced RCA should not be longer than about 1 meter (this is not short for a home applicati... | |
| what is the best cassette tape maker in your experience? I haven't had any problems with them. Maybe you should try one before you comment on something you aren't familiar with? I am quite familiar with cassette tapes and remember very well anti resonance ceramic body made by SONY and others like TD... | |
| what is the best cassette tape maker in your experience? If you guys are like me and still taping, this company bought all the remaining Maxell XLIIS bulk tape, (on pretty huge pancake reels) and you can order almost any length of tape. This is one of my favorite tapes and have ordered quite a few an... | |
| Trying to Help My Nephew With His First Venture Into High End Audio How old is your nephew? | |
| Lucky cartridge hunting today Regret selling mine in 2001. Don’t worry, you can buy much better cartridgesLucky cartridge hunting todayNot a hunting, just new listing from juki (Hong Kong) | |
| Trying to Help My Nephew With His First Venture Into High End Audio Pioneer PLX series can compete ONLY with OLD Technics 1200 discontinued before Pioneer made their PLX1000. But it can’t compete with Technics new “GR” series which is only one step behind the “G”, both have coreless DD motor (best DD motor availab... | |
| Age of masters If the mastertape is damaged, lost or burned in fire all we need is original record (not a reissue from digital copy) | |
| Technics magnesium tonearm 1200G vs Jelco 850 There are NO direct replacement, custom made armbase is required even for Jelco (or anything), but for Reed the armbase on technics can be flat, there is nothing going throught the armbase except for 3 small mounting screws. So this armbase is sim... | |
| Age of masters Transfer of analog to digital is OK for streaming and digital releases, but it make no sense for vinyl releases, lacquer cut direct from an old mastertape is what we need on vinyl. Master tape rules anyway. | |
| Trying to Help My Nephew With His First Venture Into High End Audio He has $5,000 to spend. He listens to mostly Rock music on Vinyl. He’s not new to vinyl and $5k is more than enough for great stuff.Look for brand new Technics SL-1200GR for about $1800 (read reviews and audiogon). Buy JLTi mk5 phono stage for abo... | |
| The Miller Carbon Story Around this time I was working with DJ Casser and his Black Diamond Racing Shelf. His Shelf material was so much more effective than acrylic, it had to make a better plinth too. more about Black Diamond Racing founded by DJ Casser | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? How it's going @chungjh , do you like your Technics ? | |
| Technics magnesium tonearm 1200G vs Jelco 850 This is Jelco 850. Don’t know why you asking, but if you want to upgrade stock tonearm you’t better look for something better than Jelco knife-edge bearing design. It was popular upgrade for OLD technics turntables, but the "G" series is excellent... |