chakster
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| The Great Cartridge Shootout I think Grado compliance is no more than 30cu.The wood Grado are huge, but personally I never had any issue with Grado XTZ (top of the line Signature Model from the past). | |
| Phonostage recommendations under $3K Current-injection (for low impedance MC only) from 47Labs:Phono Cube | |
| Most hyped turntable, tonearm, and cartridge? At the 2018 High End show in Munich, UK-based SME announced that they had taken steps to reintroduce the classic Garrard 301 @larryiHere is an article about "new" Garrard ***Now for a bit of disappointing news: The new Garrard 301, with SME M2-12R... | |
| Most hyped turntable, tonearm, and cartridge? I would suggest going with Panasonic if they are still being made. @richopp If you missed this click here | |
| Denon DA 307 and DA 309 your custom made racks are very nice, they look solid, stainless steel? or aluminum? thanks, it's steel filled with sand, painted | |
| Most hyped turntable, tonearm, and cartridge? You could try at least Technics SP-10 mk2 without any mods, this is high-end Technics. Their SP-10 mk3 is ultra high-end. The new one is SP-10R (drive about $7k) and SL-1200GAE turntable ($4k). Even $900 SL-1200 mk7 is completely different turntab... | |
| Denon DA 307 and DA 309 Use the screws @luisma31 DA-401 is much better tonearm BTW, but i think the mounting style is the same, look at my Denon on PD-444 | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? This is one of the best DD turntables and once you will compare it to some others you will understand it. The benefit is its integrated aluminum “plinth”, so you don’t have to think about plinth at all. Start using it and realize this is a High-En... | |
| Most hyped turntable, tonearm, and cartridge? Modern $3k turntables are junk, except for the new Technics, compared to the nice vintage Direct Drives at the same price.Actually, those $3k modern belt drives must be in $500-1000 range, but not at $2-3k range. | |
| Help with Phono preamp suggestions! I owned a Vida as well....a bit more "vanilla" when compared to a Whest 30 RDT SE for example. The Vida does not have loading options either- only High and Low. Additional rotary knob for different loading is optional, anyone can add for extra mo... | |
| New to Vinyl. Need help on how to match components, cartridge, etc... yeah, MC cartridge and MC phono stage matching is another story. | |
| Most hyped turntable, tonearm, and cartridge? $15k is simply insane, but audiophile world is full of nonsense.They are definitely over hyped, but I like the design of Garrard 301 hammertone (fully refurbisged by Audio Grail in UK), it’s GBP 3000 (the rest if for plinth, tonearm, cartridge). A... | |
| Most hyped turntable, tonearm, and cartridge? @mijostyn I'm talking about tonearm that I own and use myself, do you own Reed ?There is no 3G, only 2G Reed 3P is excellent tonearm, it's cheaper and absolutely perfect, but there are several models available. I never tried anything from Reed, ex... | |
| New to Vinyl. Need help on how to match components, cartridge, etc... This is all irrelevant when you're using MM or MI cartridge.Start with MM or MI and you are fine with every MM phono stage!Don't buy an MC if you don't understand anything about gain, impedance, compliance etc | |
| Help with Phono preamp suggestions! Read about Aurorasound VIDA on 6moons |