chakster
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| Recommendations for a modestly priced analog system I can recommend Luxman PD-444 as the best bang for the buck!Got a few of them in my system, you can add whatever tonearm you like for your cartridge. Read more about this model here.However, I think $7k is not a modest price for turntable, tonearm... | |
| Logical cartridge upgrade for a long time Shure M44-7 user It depends on your phono stage, tonearm and many other factors. Some great MM can do as low as 5Hz up to 60kHz, it’s impossible without advanced profiles originally designed for Quadraphonic records (like Shibata). When a cartridge can do 10Hz (li... | |
| Kuzma 4 Point Tonearm 4 Point is ugly, look for Reed instead | |
| 16 ohm speakers: any amp sounds better with more resolution. speaker cables less critical. And yet, the guy who designs some of the most fantastically successful speakers made anywhere in the world today says nevermind 16 ohms, even 8 ohms is obsolete. Nearly all legendary TANNOY speakers are 8 OhmZu Audio speakers are 16 Ohm and they ... | |
| 16 ohm speakers: any amp sounds better with more resolution. speaker cables less critical. My speakers are 16 Ohm (Zu Audio Druid).There is a simple trick recommended by Nelson Pass (First Watt):Put 160 Ohm (5w) resistor across the cable terminals on the speaker. Some reviewers love it with 16 Ohm speakers. | |
| Logical cartridge upgrade for a long time Shure M44-7 user When someone who use CONICAL stylus (with rolled-off bass and high frequencies) comparing it to MICRO LINE stylus claiming the last one is bright, you have to admit that this person prefer colored rolled-off sound. Reading other forums you have to... | |
| Phono cable upgrade recommendation for MC cartridge Look for Zu Audio Mission Phono with WBT, try it, you can return any Zu product for full refund. | |
| 5 cartridges - Cello, vdH, Benz, Zu, Hana - what stays and what goes? Cello aka Miyabi Standard is exceptional cartridge and extremely rare, but your sample is refurbished with different cantilever (Ruby as you said). Who refurbished it for you? | |
| 5 cartridges - Cello, vdH, Benz, Zu, Hana - what stays and what goes? Cello Chorale. By Isamu Ikeda; No, it's not Ikeda, this cartridge designed by Takeda-San Haruo Takeda, the former Audio-Technica employee who went on to design and build phono cartridges for Krell, Mark Levinson, and Cello, and who even lent h... | |
| Technics SL-1200GR setup question @cleeds VTA is always positive, by definition.Remember that VTA is the angle of the cantilever to the LP surface. Arm tube angle is positive or negative and you can only change it by VTA adjustment on Technics tonearm if the arm tube is not par... | |
| Phono stage or pre Amp? which is most important. In terms of partst:$150 phono stage and $500 phono stage can be absolutely the same, but with different label and different box. Price is nothing in this case (in this category at least) and can’t be a guide. | |
| what are your cartridge set up go to Look at Dennesen and look at Feickert | |
| Logical cartridge upgrade for a long time Shure M44-7 user Stanton and Pickering are still available NEW (NOS aka New Old Stock) from time to time and they are fine (this is really the best quality for lowest price today). Styli also available new (genuine). I rate them higher than Audio-Technica entry mo... | |
| New Synergistic Research Record Mat Find yourself a proper SAEC SS-300 mat instead | |
| Logical cartridge upgrade for a long time Shure M44-7 user Ok, M2 Red is garbage, stay away from this one, in this series you could try Black. Within your budget at $300 or $350 (in my opinion) Stanton 881s or Pickering XSV-3000 (both with Stereohedron tip) are the best you can get, the sound is so sweet.... |