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| Best Rock Album in 2011 Saw the Colbert appearance and can't agree. Bon Iver is a slightly more elegant avant garde variation of Coldplay sentimentality. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? My favorite Goethe (in youth) was "The Sorrows of Young Werther." This was a double-edged critique of a poet/philosopher's romantic self-absorption. Goethe later recanted the book in light of a large readership of educated German youth failing to ... | |
| Best CD I've heard so far 2011......... Treasure is an excellent live performance from Neil Young's underrated early '80s archive. Unfortunately the CD sounds closed in and not much better than bootleg quality. Does the expensive three-sided LP sound any better? | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Volleyguy, I won't debate break-in phenomena at length here, but IME some rather obvious changes sometimes occur through long break-in cycles-- particularly with digital circuits and caps and cables. After further break-in the HF of Duelund 2.0 V2... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil VG, as suggested by the other posters, it is fruitless to pursue a test methodology in which you listen to a stereo signal with different L/R components. I just went through this experiment in the course of upgrading from a well broken in ESS Sabr... | |
| New favorite VINYL Album? Mab33, Unfortunately the first disk of the Thurston Moore double LP has a hard-to-track bump on the lead-in track on both sides of the pressing. Was this your problem as well? In other respects the pressing and SQ are fine. | |
| Audiophile Addiction One thing to remember in context is that moods associated with addictive behaviors tend to track in sinusoids from elation to boredom/regret. If the equipment hobby or your purchasing habits tend to drag you along this curve then consider professi... | |
| New favorite VINYL Album? My Morning Jacket Circuital. A big step forward for MMJ. A kaleidescope that starts out echoing Savoy Brown, Tommy-era Who and darker 90's bands like Morphine and Acetone and one wild White Stripes femalisation in Horehound mode, then gradually so... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, the stock Atma MP-1 phono preamp is all-tube with cascoded 12AT7s at input. Lewm creatively adapted the MAT02 hybrid input stage from an Allen Wright phono stage schematic. RIP AW. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul, Unfortunately I don't. I'm hoping to try one, but first need to get back on track with repair or replacement of my low-gain phono stage.Lew, Allen Wright once mentioned that a low-impedance cartridge is less noisy into the MAT02 cascode. ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Lewm and Raul, my observation was strickly about the high background noise level that I experienced with a high-impedance MM/MI cartridge driving MAT02 transistors at phono input in the bottom of a hybrid cascode. Lewm, please post your results... | |
| New favorite VINYL Album? Thurston Moore's Demolished Thoughts has great synergy with Beck as producer. Sounds like unplugged Sonic Youth with Beck in Mutations/Sea Change mode, channeling Nick Drake. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, the MMC1's medium-low output may work well with your modified MP-1 phono stage. However if the cartridge's DC resistance is in the hundreds of ohms as is typical of most MM/MI,you will likely experience high background noise level and lacklus... | |
| Capacitors in Cary PH302 phono amp In my ARC phono stage an upgrade from Multicap PPMFX to PPFXS and RTX was a big step up in SQ. From web images it appears that the original caps may have been Hovland or Auricap. You have room inside for a 630V cap such as ClarityCap MR--but that'... | |
| Most expensive Audio disapoinment? Duke, Thanks, gotta love these experiences. I bought the headphones in '94, and still have them available for one last go-round with factory service. When working they sounded fine. |