dogberry
Responses from dogberry
| In need of a GOOD 3:1/4:1 passive input selector Well done! | |
| EAR Phonobox = HORRIBLE Come on, OP, we want to know! | |
| Ceramic cartridge phono stage options? I believe @pindac is using one, so he may chime in. | |
| Open Reel Curious No disrespect intended, nor, I think, given. | |
| Open Reel Curious I "borrow" records and CD's and record them. This may be a stupid question: surely a home recorded R2R tape of an LP or a CD cannot sound any better than the source material? Which makes me ask what the point is? I can see that buying pre-recor... | |
| In need of a GOOD 3:1/4:1 passive input selector When I had four tonearms and one phono stage input, I used one of these: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B085W1PPHL No hum. | |
| Mono Cartridge Stylus Mono is a bit special to me as I have no hearing in my left ear, and cannot perceive stereo. The London Reference has been a great favourite purely for its sound (I can't speak to imaging and suchlike), and I am curious as to whether a Decca mono ... | |
| Mono Cartridge Stylus londondecca.com tell me that a line contact stylus is available on the Maroon Mono for $285 extra. I've spent the morning with my mono-converted BM Ruby 3, and I'm not sure it makes sense to spend ~2.3kCDN on the Maroon out of curiosity. I'll have... | |
| Vinyl Warm Up Time @bdp24 The Decca tieback thread used to be made of a fibre material (probably cotton) but in the modern era nylon has been used, which is far less likely to stretch the way they used to do. | |
| Outer Vinyl Sleeves, is it a good idea? One thing I have found helpful in freeing up shelf space is to remove duplicate copies of albums. Sometimes these have come from an inherited collection, and sometimes from forgetfulness. Then there are those where I have bought a "spare" or a rep... | |
| Mono Cartridge Stylus I have been toying with the idea of buying a Maroon Mono from londondecca.com, just to hear what a mono Decca can do. Assuming it is good enough to earn a permanent place on a tonearm, I have to consider the stylus it comes with. By default this i... | |
| Outer Vinyl Sleeves, is it a good idea? I use them to protect the album cover. No problems with mold, but we have heat on for half the year and it's blazing hot the other half. | |
| Mono Cartridge Stylus It is a pain to replace all the panels in 2905 speakers, but well worthwhile, and much cheaper than buying a new set of 2912s. I took some pictures of the heroic tech doing it while my son (provided muscle) and I watched: https://drmoss.ca/Quad_2... | |
| KT88 vs 6550 vs ? for warm midrange - using Cronos Mag lll I recently managed to get hold of some Svetlana (St Petersburg) KT-88s from valvesnmore.com. They are at least as good as the Sophia Electric tubes they replaced. But I too, have read good things about NOS winged C 6550 tubes. I'm using Quad II/f... | |
| Decent backup cartridge An MP-200 would fit in your budget, and Nagaokas have a similar sound to SS cartridges. |