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| Are stars that have contracts with the Vegas hotels relevant anymore rpeluso... " 'Charts today' are irrelevant, from my perspective."I agree completely. It doesn't matter to me whether an artist is on the charts, or not. | |
| TTWeights closing their doors Of course, it's always a bit sad when the audiophile community loses one of its manufacturers. Many of them are small businesses. They may be a one-person shop, or a closely-knit family business. Even what many consider to be a "major" manufacture... | |
| TTWeights closing their doors has2be1" ...And you should verify your own facts.I stated North American materials, can you say with certainty the products you listeduse materials all made in America or are they off shore and assembled in America ?Actually, I didn’t make any cl... | |
| Audio Research Reference 150 severe distortion czarivey"Wow I wish I can build some stuff that will require constant and future service for life! Nice business strategy indeed ..."If you like what you mistakenly imagine ARC's strategy to be, what's stopping you from pursuing it? | |
| No cartridge is good enough. inna " ... Vinyl was never supposed to be an audiophile medium but tape was ..."Atmasphere was correct on calling this claim as erroneous. The innovation of the LP was absolutely driven by the goal of high fidelity. Tape, at the time that Goldmar... | |
| Spaghetti cabling behind entertainment center Wire ties? | |
| TTWeights closing their doors has2be3\"Sadly , another casualty of a market place driven by off shore manufacturing ..."has2be, do you actually know this to be true, or are you speculating? There are many reasons why a company may close its doors. Contrary to popular opinion,... | |
| I thought VPI stopped production of their direct drive table The VPI direct drive is now hand-made by Harry Weisfeld and is made-to -order. It sounded great at a recent VPI open house event. | |
| Audio Research Reference 150 severe distortion "Your personal ownership is probably from at least 7...8 years ago. Now I feel that it's different. I haven't seen word dropped about Ref series reliability till recent and mostly on current models not ones built back than."No, my experience i... | |
| Audio Research Reference 150 severe distortion czarivey"... I just follow frequent facts about Ref series.It doesn't look like tube(s) problem. It looks like functionality problem ...Just count facts and science becomes simple math.Go with more facts throughout Audiogon posts about Ref serie... | |
| Audio Research Reference 150 severe distortion czarivey1"It looks like AudioReseach Ref series are similar to Ferrari that have great performance but for the price of poor reliability."I don't know much about Ferraris, although I think many of them look sharp. But I can tell you that ARC pro... | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable 11-29-15: Taters"They will send you all the cables you want if you are willing to pay the 5 percent of the retail price of the cable plus shipping. They don't provide this service for free."That's not quite correct. The Cable Co. requires a 5 perc... | |
| sonorous1 Can you be more specific about the nature of the distortion? Is the distortion the same on all LPs? Are you sure you have overhang and VTA/SRA set accurately? The Benz has a narrow profile stylus, so set-up is especially critical. Is VTF set in th... | |
| How much difference if the tonearm is mounted 5mm A 5mm deviation in pickup arm setup is a huge error. You want to avoid it. | |
| What would be a good turntable/tonearm/cartridge There's really no such thing as a turntable that's easy to set up and maintain. A turntable requires very careful setup, and maintenance with LPs is never-ending. |