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| Cost Incurred to Achieve a Vinyl LP Replay If you're happy, pindac, then we (most of us anyway) are happy. I'm someone who thinks dictionaries should be prescriptive, grammar and punctuation matter, and spelling isn't an art form. However, I'm also comfortable making no end of allowances f... | |
| Does a record player make that much of a difference?? I should never have thought of using one as an SUT! But then again......no, not a Variac built as a power supply, but if an autoformer would work as an SUT, one could see it being interesting. Variable turns ratio/gain, but coupled with varying l... | |
| Vinyl is back for good and that’s exciting An LP cost £2.50 full price when I first bought them. I remember thinking it was the same as a bottle of whisky (which I was not old enough to buy then). | |
| Cost Incurred to Achieve a Vinyl LP Replay Ah, yes, but the wooden surface is the top of a 400lb oak chest from the early 1700s. I cannot get rid of it, nor move it elsewhere, so I must make the best of it. And maybe, just maybe, oak that is nearly 400 years old is just about as dense or ... | |
| Soundsmith cartridges Not at all, @tonyptony , the VAS MC One MkI. The LP-S is still a better cartridge to my ear, but not by a long way. | |
| Zesto Andros 1.2 True, that. I went back to a Quad 24p phono stage after spending six times the cost on a Musical Fidelity NuVista Vinyl. The former sounds better even with all the switches in circuit to allow four cartridges to use it. | |
| Cost Incurred to Achieve a Vinyl LP Replay @pindac @dogberry I have shared with you in the past on occasions about your methods used for mounting Tonearms. Indeed you have. I thought you might be amused to see the latest twist among my pods: using two per tonearm. The latest pair have... | |
| What's the deal with Vintage Tube Service? That seems a bit harsh. I have never had occasion to use him, but as a Canadian who routinely has to pay duty when ordering from the US, it's time for payback: https://valvesnmore.com A superb, fast, seller of tubes that are all tested befo... | |
| Soundsmith cartridges I was underwhelmed at first by the Sussurro MkII ES. I played with the loading and found it helped a bit, but it never really came alive until I used an SUT. At that point it became a very neutral but detailed cartridge, not quite as dynamic as a ... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? As a user of a Log Fire for home heating, I can't recommend cutting up furniture coated with a finishing material to be used as Kindling. That episode was nearly sixty years ago. The kindling was for an anthracite boiler that heated (poorly) th... | |
| Step Up Transformer Question @elliottbnewcombjr I use WBT locking connectors, but they still need a wiggle or a jiggle every now and then to decrease resistance caused by accumulated crud. (I guess they might be gold plated but it is impure gold!) | |
| What Holiday Gifts did you ask for or Give to Yourself? Sounds like fun, pindac! You won't get any flak from me (unless you really meant the Roberta kind! 😉) | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? Art deco? This is an art deco record player: And I wish my mother had never told me to make kindling of ours. | |
| Step Up Transformer Question And it might not matter if we carefully calculate the effective loading on the cartridge: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/mc-loading-myth.1189997/ At the end of it all, if it sounds pleasing to you, it is good and you might as wel... | |
| Audio Technica stylus upgrade I suppose it is possible to have a cartridge aligned well-enough for, say, an elliptical stylus, which you then change to something more advanced, and suddenly you find you need a more accurate alignment? I'm becoming more nervous about installin... |