chakster
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| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? Well nothing new from you, it's not necessary to mention your 911 car in every post about turntables, cars and turntables are not related to each other. If you like a turntable that looks like coffin with a belt then it's nothing but your own pref... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? Copper mat cost more than your turntable (if you don’t have something special), look at the price for Artisan Fidelity new pure copper mat, it’s $1200. Micro Seiki CU-180 in Mint condition will cost the same, but it was made 40 years ago in Japan ... | |
| Refurbish Fidelity Research Tonearms I only tried MC1 and MCL10, it was very hard to find a NOS sample of MCL10 and it was great cartridge. However, MCL1000 often has the same problem (one channel malfunction). | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? I don’t care what car do you have, but you can’t even remember the names of the turntables and your experience with some unknown direct drive is from the 70s! Reference direct drive are all from Japan from Denon, Victor, Pioneer, Technics... I ass... | |
| Refurbish Fidelity Research Tonearms I think Audio-Technica engineer actually mentioned Victor Direct Couple cartridge in his interview with Mr.Fremer (filmed in Japan during his factory tour). It’s not a secred that AT was inspired by Victor innovative design from the past, but the ... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? My aversion to direct drive turntables comes from pretty extensive listening tests back in the late 70's early 80's. The universal opinion was that direct drive turntables sounded inferior to the best belt drive turntables. Where is the list of Di... | |
| Refurbish Fidelity Research Tonearms The moon was huge last night, I spend several hours listening to my Japanese pressings from the late 70’s. Ramsey Lewis stuff from the late 70’s is so amazing, just superb analog quality. I decided to mount my silver FR-7f on FR-64fx with N60 and ... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? I have a perfect original Micro Seiki CU-180, actually two of them at the moment. The price only goes up every year. It’s very hard to find CU-180 without scratches. Not interested in replicas, I like vintage original gear in mint condition. It ma... | |
| ADC XLM mkII Cartridge. Should I bother... My 2M Black is in need of replacement - too many hours - and I am not ready to get a MC cartridge at the moment, so I figured this could be a good bridge that won’t cost too much to get going. What is "not too much" for you ? I forgot to mention t... | |
| Bin dug noisy records. Does it diminish your enjoyment? @surmuz it’s shellac, not vinyl, they are mono and probably played to death with steel needles in the 40s. Those are made before RIAA was invented. It’s different technology. So you need completely different needle to play those 78rpm today, and y... | |
| Bin dug noisy records. Does it diminish your enjoyment? I’ve got bunch of records from my father and couple of them r pretty old late 40s-50... those two records are made on some much heavier vinyl also the flexibility of those discs is far from modern LPs. The vinyl looks more like bakelite, it chip o... | |
| Excel Sound Corp ST 1 step up transformer Add link, you can’t add phono on audiogon, this forum is oldschool. | |
| Upgrading Technics 1200 Tonearm under $1000 @andysf1200G turntable cost $3500 and prople who replace the arm looking for $5000 tonearms normally. The stock magnesium tonearm is great on 1200G. But OP’s mk2 turntable cost $400 (in Japan they cost $150 used today) and he willing to buy a new ... | |
| ADC XLM mkII Cartridge. Should I bother... The cartridge is nothing special, even their Best ADC Astrion with Sapphire cantilever is nothing special. Don’t know what’s your budget, but you can find much better MM cartridge than new Ortofon or old ADC. Stanton, Pickering, Grace, Garrott, Au... | |
| Upgrading Technics 1200 Tonearm under $1000 easiest tonearm upgrade would be SL1200MK4 titanium armThis is very rare old model from the 90s for domestic Japanese market, the price is insane and tonearm is not easy to find separately. The OP already rewired his tonearm, so the only differenc... |