dougdeacon
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| Static Build Up Agaffer, sorry for the confusing "Milty". You can buy the Zerostat 3 gun from Acoustic Sounds, amusicdirect, lots of places, usually $69.95 or so. Dweller, I hadn't thought about zapping the record while still in the jacket. Great idea, thanks.Goo... | |
| Shelter + BentAudio loading: field test Romy, Great post, thank you for the tip. I don't know what resistors BentAudio uses, but I was actually thinking of buying a few pairs of Vishays to give values right around my discovered sweet spot of 22-25 ohms. You're recommending RN, which I a... | |
| Static Build Up I assume you've grounded your TT bearing and tonearm.My record pre-playing ritual goes like this, also with a carbon fiber brush:- dust platter at the start of the session- dust underside of record (don't grind dirt into side B)- zap record with M... | |
| Seperate phono stage v.s. step up transformer Jyprez,Thanks for the nice word. As I mentioned, I expect to be going away for a week or so in November. If you want to borrow the BentAudio trannies and do an a/b in your system, no problem. Then you can post a real world comparison.Agaffer, glad... | |
| SACD or vinyl? Looking for great sound and mid $$ Larryi, you're right about the available music of course, but CDs do not appeal to Concious. He wants a natural sound that redbook discs do not provide. His true choice is between enjoying the convenience of SACD despite a limited repertory and an... | |
| Seperate phono stage v.s. step up transformer Best to ignore him David, as you once taught me, though I wish he'd chosen some less attractive animal as his nom-de-fume. There are so many unattractive animals available, houseflies, rats, any number of viruses; did he have to choose cats?Bombay... | |
| SACD or vinyl? Looking for great sound and mid $$ Look out, here comes another convert! You should have listened to Rushton's well reasoned warnings, Concious. Now it's too late.I'm unfamiliar with Rega cartridges, but many say even better sound can be had for similar money. Colitas' cartridge is... | |
| SACD or vinyl? Looking for great sound and mid $$ Great point Bob. The enormous supply of affordable jazz and classical LP's should clinch the decision. Unless he's into new jazz, everything he likes is available now. Who knows when or if much of it will be reissued on SACD, or at what price?I'll... | |
| Seperate phono stage v.s. step up transformer I add my vote to the posts from 4yanx, Ed, Twl and Hagtech.No cartridge that plays with a Helikon will have enough output to keep you from needing more gain. Changing cartridges won't help unless you settle for a performance downgrade, which would... | |
| L.P. Cataloging Sytem Advice My (all classical) collection is sorted chronologically by the birth date of the composer, then in Penguin guide order more-or-less within each composer. Helps me find something when I'm in the mood for Baroque, or Romantic or whatever. Did I ment... | |
| What was your latest LP find?? musicdoc, just change your name to musicdog, you dog. Nice find! | |
| Analog under 2k? Joe, I tried building you a Teres-based rig and couldn't quite see how to do it on your budget. So I started thinking about a Nott' Horizon, as Inna suggested. Then Twl's post showed up. As usual, he's nailed it. He even got you a wood base, which... | |
| Shelter + BentAudio loading: field test Good question, David. I just assumed it was typical translated Japanese. ;) Maybe we should ask Axxis Distribution to get a clarification. Anybody buy a new Shelter recently? I bought mine used so feel a bit funny asking a lot of the distributor. ... | |
| Shelter + BentAudio loading: field test Dmailer, do let us know your results. Always useful to compare. John Chapman didn't know why a cartridge would want to see different loads for transformer vs. phono stage. That's why I started @ 100. Audiobomber, Zaikesman and Sean educated me her... | |
| Shelter + BentAudio loading: field test Now if I could just find a keyboard that types short, sensible posts like yours... |