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| VPI's new "Vanquish" Ultra High-End turntable is a STUNNER! fsonicsmithAt this level, I don’t understand VPI’s failure to design around two inherent compromises that VPI is infamous for implementing; 1) a junction box instead of continuous wiring from cartridge pins to connector of choice ...My understandi... | |
| Vinyl “Pops & Clicks” eliminators mijostynYou are playing your records at a pressure of 52 thousand psi ...You might want to back off on your VTF a little bit. That kind of pressure would poke a hole right through an LP and possibly damage your platter, too. | |
| Funny thing happened after my neighbor moved. I don’t want to be the pessimist here, but establishing cause-and-effect can be a tricky business. There could easily be other reasons for the change in your system’s performance. For example, electric utilities routinely make changes in their dis... | |
| Can an IC based amp be considered 'high end'? pragmasiAmplifiers based on integrated circuits (chips) rather than discrete transistors.Either of those are solid state technologies. | |
| Can an IC based amp be considered 'high end'? pragmasi Most, if not all amplifiers that are regarded as 'high end' are either valve or solid state designs. What else is there? | |
| Vinyl “Pops & Clicks” eliminators mijostyn If you continue to use "common sense" as your principle metric in life I guarantee you will make one mistake after another. Common sense has served me very well in life and I have no plan to abandon it. | |
| Vinyl “Pops & Clicks” eliminators mijostyn Soundsmith says the contact area of it’s line contact stylus is 50um2. 1 um2 = 1.55 e-9 inches2. This means 50 um2 = 0.0000000077 inches2. 2 grams = 0.004 lb . 0.004/0.0000000077 = 51,948lb/inches2.52 thousand psi. So now guys lets do th... | |
| Beware: New (at least to me) scam being run on Audiogon members Thanks for the head's up on this. I'm pleased to read about Audiogon's swift response, but not surprised. They really have a dedicated and caring team. | |
| Vinyl “Pops & Clicks” eliminators lewmIn my opinion, playing LPs under a dust cover induces more sonic degradation in the form of coloration than a tick or pop as forms of noise. I think that depends on the particular turntable and dustcover. I would have agreed with you back ... | |
| Vinyl “Pops & Clicks” eliminators mijostyn Contrary to popular mythology records come from the manufacturer perfectly clean. That's just plain wrong. I've been in record pressing plants and seen the LPs waiting to be sleeved. These aren't dust-free rooms, so of course some dust... | |
| Audiodesk pro with only water I use the Klaudio US machine, which the manufacturer says should be used only with distilled water. It works great, and removes the contamination from any LP except the rare, badly abused used record. For them, I use a Nitty Gritty machine to prec... | |
| Interconnect Directionality roberttcan .... it is the pundits who need to take said blind tests and prove they can hear a difference ...Nobody here is obligated to "prove" anything to you or anyone else. Of course, you’re not obligated to accept any of their representations... | |
| Headphone King of Soundstage? I've really never heard a headphone that could portray soundstage. How could it? The sound is in your head. | |
| Interconnect Directionality roberttcan I am willing to test on any system you wish to configure ...Let's see if the group can agree about what that system might look like. Then you could try to assemble something comparable at one of the major audio shows, and invite Audiog... | |
| Interconnect Directionality jetterI have no ideal why what I believe is a small group of persons on A'gon would think that blind testing won't yield fair and impartial results. Please do not repeat the GK arguments against it that the testers are going to rig the test.... |