dougdeacon
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| Bass Question - should LP range be so different? Rwwear and Eldartford are correct, but I'll respectfully disagree with Reb1208. The variability of LP's is certainly greater than with CD's, but to state that, "The 'best' LP's have a compromised balanced sound.", betrays a lack of experience with... | |
| Did I damage my cartridge? Scott, that's good news. Glad your cart is okay. Did you figure out why the sound went fuzzy?I haven't destroyed one (yet) Zaikesman. But with two cats and a klutz of a user it's only a matter of time. Maybe I should keep an old, cheap one nearby ... | |
| Where you plug it in Finders keepers! | |
| Do I 'Hafta' clean a brand new audiophile LP? 'gotta'Read my tale of woe about the filthy new records I just got from Speakers Corner on a nearby thread. Just do it. | |
| Speakers Corner QC? Rcprince, the DG was indeed poorly recorded, even for DG. Of course that's not SC's fault, though I wonder why they bothered to reissue this one. From your experience and that of others it seems we just had terrible luck. I'll be very happy with c... | |
| Teres update Joe, that looks fabulous. I'm sure Twl will approve your taste in spikes! Is that an armboard position locking knob I see on top? Or? | |
| Did I damage my cartridge? Philjolet, that's interesting. The extremephono instructions very specifically warn you not to do that! I "think" the Zerodust is less liquid than the extremephono, so less likely to leave glop on the stylus or cantilever, but pushing down on my c... | |
| Speakers Corner QC? Rats! I dragged my cloak and dagger down from the attic last night, just hoping for some excitement. The Speakers Corner/Decca reissues are indeed magnificent. (Can't say the same about their DGG reissue of Verdi's 'Requiem', lousy recording I thi... | |
| Speakers Corner QC? Jfrech, I agree about MD's customer service. They've been good, it's just a pain. Of the nine I bought they're replacing the four that need to be:- Decca 6113/Mahler #1/Solti/LSO- Decca 325-2/Mahler#2/Solti/LSO- Decca 385-2/Mahler #3/Solti/LSO- De... | |
| Speakers Corner QC? Spencer, Hmmm... I got them all from Music Direct. Tell us what you know, please! I'm game for conspiracy theories, being ripped off, anything that will let me believe SC records really can be as good OOTB as they should be.Does SC really sell "se... | |
| Good automatic TT's My old HK/Rabco ST-8 was actually pretty foolproof, believe it or not. A linear arm is easy for shaky eyes to align with the leadin groove and it had auto-lift at the end. Put a good, high compliance cartridge on one and it would never harm a reco... | |
| Speakers Corner QC? Thanks guys. I love the sonics of their Decca reissues and I'm looking forward to the Mercury series too. Guess I'll keep faith a bit longer. | |
| A prospective Teres owner with questions David, I sort of assumed a "dark" component would tend to mask some details, since they seem to live in the higher frequencies IME. I've been playing around with small changes in loading and can reproduce something like a darkening effect by going... | |
| Please critique my new DIY stylus cleaning system. No material is friction-proof, diamonds just abrade relatively less easily than softer ones. If you wanted to wear down a diamond stylus you could easily do so by abrading it for a few 1,000 hours with a piece of vinyl. It would probably go a litt... | |
| Cartridge-- M/M or M/C Scott,What gain and loading options does your phono stage have? Makes a huge difference in what cartridges you can use. |