dougdeacon
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| $800 Cartridge Shootout and Upgrade Path ... every single choice you make as an audiophile will have plusses and minuses. It is up to you to select equipment which has the plusses in the areas of most importance to you, and has the minuses in the areas of least sensitivity to you. This i... | |
| Analog Upgrade Suggestions Welcome Hmmm, I'm trying to square this statement,Setting VTA is a hassle. I prefer to set it up so that things sound good for records of average thickness and forget about tweeking it. I would go nuts adjusting the VTA for every record. I just want to li... | |
| $800 Cartridge Shootout and Upgrade Path What does ROFL mean? Is it like ROTC?Rolling On Floor Laughing, which I'm now doing again of course. Now you have to work out ROFLMAO.I think its fairly obvious that Twl is very knowledgeable, but I dont know how he came by that knowledge. Som... | |
| Is extremely accurate "VTA" adjustment necessary? I think those who've heard "the magic of right VTA", which obviously includes me, must concede that achieving it regularly requires a degree of effort and/or record-keeping that some just find too bothersome. We don't mind doing it. Our ears seem ... | |
| Analog Upgrade Suggestions Welcome It looks like you have enough gain and loading flexibility to handle just about any imaginable cartridge. I'd be slightly concerned about inserting resistors to modify gain. They're in the signal path, so make sure they're good quality.How is the ... | |
| Analog Upgrade Suggestions Welcome Whoa, there Mstram. Slow down a little. Three posts (well, two anyway) on your own thread before anyone gets a chance? No fair. ;-)Has the technology evolved over the last 15 years to the point where moving magnets now have the resolution and fine... | |
| $800 Cartridge Shootout and Upgrade Path Dan_ed,So you want to buy a lightly used ADC XLM MkII? You'll be even less disappointed, I guarantee it! ;-) | |
| $800 Cartridge Shootout and Upgrade Path Artar 1 to Twl:Nice point! You should be an audio dealer! ROFL!!! Artar, do you really think this quality of advice comes from an amateur? Or did you forget the ;-)? On the TT/arm/cartridge hierarchy thing, I was fiddling with cartridges this week... | |
| $800 Cartridge Shootout and Upgrade Path Letch,If you go with any Schroeder below the Reference, one advantage of a Teres would be CB's arm height adjuster. If optimizing SRA turns out to be important for you it's a much better solution than the set screw and sliding post method. Some of... | |
| $800 Cartridge Shootout and Upgrade Path Like Twl said, it's easy to demonstrate and I've done exactly what he described - though mostly by accident. I ordered my Teres, OL Silver and Shelter 901 all at the same time, but the cartridge showed up first. Being as impatient as any other lit... | |
| Record Cleaning Machines Loontoon,Thanks for the info on how the KM unspools the thread, and also for your take on cleaning solution safety from someone with knowledge in the field. | |
| Record Cleaning Machines Bombaywalla,91% alchohol is far higher than any other formula I've seen. In addition, '4yanx' recently posted that there are ingredients in Dawn that could *possibly* damage some vinyl formulations. I know nothing of chemistry, but those facts wou... | |
| Record Cleaning Machines Yes, the Loricraft does work on the same thread principle as the KM. The original concept came from an editor at 'Gramophone' magazine back in the 1960's. The LC also outcleans a VPI, much as you described for your KM. I believe your KM is even be... | |
| Tonearm - Incognito VS Origin Live Musical Surroundings shows a compliance figure of 15. That would make it a reasonable candidate for the HIFI Mod on a Silver, though right at the top of the suitable range of compliances. Perhaps you could try a slightly lighter pair of weights th... | |
| $800 Cartridge Shootout and Upgrade Path Artar 1,Excellent narrative of the process most of us have to go through when choosing a vinyl front end these days. With so few dealers left it's nearly impossible to see, touch or hear most of the legitimate contenders, especially in the middle ... |