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| Keep Lenco or get Thorens or Rega? The achilles heel of the Lenco has always been that stock tonearm. The first thing the Lenco-modders tend to do is ditch the arm and replace it. A modded Lenco, or a well-serviced original, will have outstanding speed stability, too -- that's alwa... | |
| Oppo 105 Analog vs HDMI? I'm not arguing with your hookup choice but I can't find any such suggestion in the manual for my Oppo 105. Can you point us to the page in the manual where it appears? I would certainly expect it (or any MCH-equipped player) to sound congested, t... | |
| best recorded 78rpm to look for, also cartridge... Audio Technica, Grado, Ortofon, Pickering, and Stanton all make (or made) 78 rpm carts that are safe recommendations.I'd stay away from the current Shure 78 cart. Its sound quality isn't in the same league as the others, IMHO. | |
| Pre-recorded Reel-to Reel tapes Open reel tapes on Ebay -- they list maybe 8,000 at any given time -- are a total crapshoot. Most sellers don't have a tape deck to play them on (they found them at estate sales or wherever). But there are real gems to be found if you're patient (... | |
| What is Low Impendance for an interconnect? Okay, I read the whole thing. Sanders obviously gets to determine what is "well designed" or not, and since his cables sound exactly the same as other "well designed" cables, I certainly see no compelling reason to buy his. | |
| What is Low Impendance for an interconnect? The second quote from Mr. Sanders (all well-designed interconnects sound identical) is so bizarre that I personally wouldn't believe another word he said. I realize that "well designed" are the weasel words. | |
| Should I have a separate bank account for PayPal? I used to have a special bank account for PayPal transactions but closed it when the bank imposed new minimum balances for cost-free accounts and it became too impractical to maintain the PayPal one. Since then I use a credit card and have had zer... | |
| Sony XA5400es vs XA777es for sacd Since I didn't think much of my XA777, you've sure disabused me of any thoughts about buying an XA5400 :-) | |
| Random Static Hits I'd suggest first buying a good humidistat to see just how dry the room is, near the system. Then you can get a better handle on how big a problem you have and how effective the various fixes are. For instance, I gave away my Zerostat after discov... | |
| What's In Your Tape Cassette Deck Tonight? My most recent equipment purchase was a Nakamichi BX-300 deck, mainly to have something decent to play the 50-odd cassettes I made off-air in the Jazz Alive series during the late 1970s and 1980s. I have been flat-out amazed at the sonic quality o... | |
| MC cart rebuild frequency: a question for you My Aesthetix Rhea phonostage has a built-in cartridge demagnetizer. I realize there are differing opinions about the advisability of using these things on MC carts (they should never be used on MM/MI carts without removing the stylus assembly), bu... | |
| VPI Classic III force gauge Wow, there used to cases where the Shure gauge was made of the wrong metal (I had one) and attracted the cart, but I've never heard of a digital gauge doing this. I'd get in touch with VPI about it and NOT use it from now on. | |
| Cd Recorder Operation My Tascam CD-RW700 allows me to do exactly what you're talking about. I assume that the newer models in the Tascam line will too. | |
| Tube preamp question I'd add the Aesthetix Calypso to the mix. Long-time CJ fan (Premier 3, 14, 17LS2) but the sonics and flexibility of the Calypso have me sold. Flexibility? Polarity switching on the remote (a "must" for me), superb mfg. service and suggestions, a f... | |
| VPI bearing oil/grease? Re Slick 50, it took me forever to get the sludge that stuff left behind out of a TNT-2 bearing well. |