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| Velodyne DD15 - worth repairing the plate amp? Lot's of talk on this! IMO the Velo DD series is hard to beat without spending thousands, so I say fix the amp. EBC Electronics in NJ does a fine job on them for a fair flat rate. Since this is a servo controlled design, no off-the-shelf plate ... | |
| Upgrading preamp. Best for under $1K If you can wield a soldering iron and follow clear concise directions, try this: You Can Build the PR-102 Stereo Preamplifier Kit - Akitika https://www.akitika.com/PR102.html If not, the AVA or Schiit units are excellent. | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge Warm? To me that means no to a rising high end. Shure V15 V with Jico SAS stylus. Grace F9 Ruby. Van denHul MC10. | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. “I Saw Her Standing There” by The Beatles ”Satisfaction” by The Stones ”You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman” by Aretha Franklin ”Do You Believe In Magic?” The Loving Spoonful ”River Deep, Mountain High” Ike & Tina Turner HS Class of ‘69... | |
| What was your first record? The first? Davey Crocket theme song from the Disney series with Fess Parker. Then Mad Magazine’s Twist Rock and Roll LP. But my first real album was “Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds”, which introduced me to both Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. ... | |
| Budget preamp recommendation...besides Schiit. If you are interested in a kit, the Akitika PR102 is both transparent and well featured with modular options to include headphone and phono, with or without motorized remote control. Price is very reasonable for the performance. This is really th... | |
| Audiogon, meet Buddy Miller. I attended a show in Boston in 2000 featuring Emmylou and Linda Ronstadt supporting their Tucson Sessions: Western Wall collaboration. The band featured Buddy on bass, Bernie Leadon on guitar, Greg Leisz on dobro, and a young drummer who was the ... | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? I incline to view Avanti1960’s favorably, as it matches my own experience. This is what we are calling ‘passive biwiring’. Panzerwagen states unequivocally that “the unused half of he signal is just turned into heat”. But is that really all that... | |
| Really Long XLR Mogami Neglex and Belden equivalents microphone cable is used in concert halls worldwide, where 100 foot runs are common for high ceiling drop mics. Every audiophile approved classical orchestral recording has this quality cabling in the path...l... | |
| Upgrade my older Linn Sondek or move on? You mentioned a Well Tempered. My own TT journey took me from a Linn LP12 /KMAL to a Technics SP12 /AT, to a SOTA Sapphire/ Premier MMT. this spanned 1975 to the late 80s. I then got a Well Tempered TT/TA and enjoyed it until a year ago. No sp... | |
| Amp repair I tried Vu and they weren’t excellent for me. I then took my unit to Mark Weiss of Amp Experts in New Milford CT and he fixed it up. He is a real audio engineer, good with electronics! | |
| RIP Robbie Robertson Robbie was also a sideman on a couple of early albums by John Hammond Jr….So Many Roads has him on lead guitar with Mike Bloomfield on piano! I met JH Jr. years later and asked him how he could pass on Bloomer as lead, and he said “At that time R... | |
| Building a 100 album vinyl collection 3 must have albums are? group 1 Abbey Road - The Beatles Axis: Bold As Love - Hendrix Inner Mounting Flame - Mahavishnu Orchestra group 2 Beggars Banquet - Stones Dark Side of the Moon - Floyd Moondance - Van the Man Group 3 Blue - Joni American Beauty - The De... | |
| Best amplifier for low to moderate listening levels Why is no one talking about the equal loudness effect? If the OP has separates or a monitor loop in their preamp, add a Schiit Lokius and dial in a contour that suits the desired listening level. Easy to tweak and sonically neutral, especially a... | |
| As A Youngster, What Unit Puqued Your Interest In All This? In the Summer of 1964 my mom and I did a National Parks tour for my Bar Mitzvah (in lieu of a catered affair). While We soaked up Yellowstone the Grand Canyon and Yosemite, my older brother was building a Dynakit PAS3, FM3, and ST70. After my retu... |