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| Problem with Turntable leveling? If a good level says that your turntable platter is (level), the problem lies elsewhere. I once had a Rega arm that did this. I've also had tables where the plinth was not perfectly level when I leveled the platter and THAT affected the arm. I cou... | |
| PS Audio P10 I have one and love it. Handles everything including a pair of SET monoblock amps. Totally noise-free. Unless you really have an extensive system, though, you could probably get away with a P5. I've owned PS Audio Power Plants ever since introduct... | |
| New cart for under 1K David, I shared your feeling that a wood-clad cart would sound better BECAUSE of the wood. For a while, everyone was doing this to Denon 103 carts and so did I, putting a neat-looking Panzerholz "pod" on mine after removing the plastic body. Other... | |
| setting VTF with a digital guage Chayro, I'm pretty much with you (regardless of -- or maybe because of -- the different VTF readings I get when setting the gauge at different points across the disc or platter. And my digital VTF gauge reads to THREE decimal points, which makes i... | |
| setting VTF with a digital guage There appears to be a belief that VTF doesn't vary across the record and that checking it at one point is all that is necessary. Depending on the table and arm, I've found that this is not necessarily the case. So what do you do? Try to check all ... | |
| Are there hybrid cables - solid and stranded? I'm pretty sure the various cable companies offer every conceivable configuration of solid, stranded and Litz wire, shielded and unshielded, to meet our demands, even the ones we didn't know we had :-) | |
| Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" drove me insane almost Ghosthouse, me too. And I think we're right. | |
| Shuguang 845B or Psvane 845 Hi-Fi series tubes I can't tell you much, but I can tell you that the Psvane 845-T tubes sound much better to me than the 845-B types in my own SET monoblocks. For the price they darn well should :-) | |
| New cart for under 1K I've owned two of the carts named above, the Ortofon 2M Black and the Soundsmih Zephyr, both on a VPI JMW 10.5 tonearm. IMO the Zephyr is superior in every respect to the 2M Black (sold last year). I recognize that this could be a system issue, YM... | |
| Raysonic gone belly up, is this a hoax? Read on... Well, the only nation cited anywhere on the exterior of my Raysonic 128 is Canada, so I wouldn't make too much of that. And per the photos on the 6moons site, the interior construction was seemingly identical to that of an Ayon model that came lat... | |
| Can u make interconnect from speaker cables I'd lay odds that many companies are already doing this. I already have, using early version of Morrow Audio wire. Others (including Mike Morrow) should correct me, but I swear that it's the same stuff, differing only in the number of strands. Cer... | |
| Less than top line reel-to-reel worth it? I'm sorta amazed at the renaissance of interest in open reel, having been a fan and active user of tape decks since the days of mono (early 50s). Some of my thoughts do run counter to those above, though. I bought a Teac X1000R brand new in 1984, ... | |
| Mapleshade boards under speakers I tend to agree. Not that I've tried everything else under the sun. Or are about to. | |
| Conrad Johnson with Gallo Reference 3.1s One thing sure, they love tube amps. And tube watts sound much louder than SS watts. I drove my Gallo Reference 3s for 8 years, very successfully, with 12 wpc 845 SET monoblocks (yes, very large trannies) augmented by the Gallo subwoofer amp on th... | |
| VPI Classic motor question I'd recommend contacting Mike at VPI. |