dgarretson
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| Next Upgrade for VPI Scoutmaster TT Stanwal, I have been considering the .2 Audiopoints for a TNT motor & flywheel. Do the .2s have an adhesive back or a threaded stud? Do you use them with the cup bases, and if so, do you hear improvement with the bases?A soft pad underneath an... | |
| SACD vs. Vinyl Coltrane1, IME with a highly modified CDP the grip on the room and effortlessness and scale of SACD approximates a high-end vinyl rig. However RBCD on the same modded player is not far behind, and easily surpasses SACD on the same player with stoc... | |
| SACD vs. Vinyl "Once your set-up is up to the mark, the quality of the recordings become more important than the format.."Well said, but getting one's front end up to that "mark" is precisely the problem. Short of that mark one's relative opinion of the formats ... | |
| SACD vs. Vinyl Assuming that you are interested in RBCD, you will get more by retiring the Sony for a RBCD player capable of giving the Marantz/Benz(and whatever phono stage) serious competition. | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 Pleasantly surprised to hear a song from the Mumford album open the Fox TV series Lone Star. | |
| DEXA D-Clock or Neutron Star? I have not tried either, but have two second-hand reports that the Neutron Star is excellent. With several Audiocom generations to SC4 I found that results are all about the quality of the power source. Get the best clock & PS that you can aff... | |
| Favourite ECM Titles New Charles Lloyd Quartet "Mirror" | |
| Velodyne DD12 or DD15 Rwwear, IME while both produce the same result, a tight bowel is preferable to a loose one... When using Vel DDs for music, it is easily appreciated that the max servo setting has better control/transient response without sacrificing authority. I ... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 Nick Cave's Grinderman 2 way out in front. Well above the first Grinderman project in terms of psyched-out eerieness & grandeur of Cave at his best. LP SQ is about perfect, and the included CD is uncompressed and close enough. Add to this a we... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" Hello all, another interesting thread from Bryon. As a sidebar, after years of casual listening to quite decent Sennheiser HE60 electrostatics through the stock head amp, I recently had an opportunity to hear an all-out custom tube head amp drivin... | |
| Good arms for catridge swappers If you are open to a linear arm, the latest iteration of Trans-Fi Terminator has arm swaps down to a T. Separate flat wand/counterweight assemblies can be swapped in minutes, requiring only readjustment of VTA to get going. The same external wirin... | |
| VPI Scout question I've corresponded with several Agoners who replaced VPI arms with Terminator, including one who had this to say after replacing the VPI 12.5 arm on his HRX:"There's more info/details, deeper bass, more speed and overall a livelier, more vivid soun... | |
| Anyone compared BAT Rex vs. Atmasphere MP-1? Maril555, my MP-1 is a modded MkII that replaced a BAT VK5i and VKP10. The main thing about Atma is the sense of wide open bandwidth and agility, as compared to the mellower & prettier sound of BAT. However at CES BAT REX components were fast ... | |
| Anyone compared BAT Rex vs. Atmasphere MP-1? I know MP-1 well in my own system into modded BAT VK75SE and Merlins, and at CES heard BAT Rex preamp into BAT Rex monoblocks and Wilson Shashas. A minor case of penis envy. | |
| 6h30 tube This subject has been addressed several times in the archives. IME, NOS DR sounds better in VK75SE, but after 1200 hrs. an aged DR is surpassed by a fresh EH or Sovtek. There are relatively simple & inexpensive mods that can be done inside cha... |