drbond
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| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @everyone @rauliruegas Thanks for everyone's input to this thread. I've learned much about analog and turntables, which I previously had no idea, which is the main reason I've had a Rega P8, simply because it's plug and play, and sounds good en... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @rauliruegas Thank you for sharing your ideal set up. I would probably agree with you if I had the chance to listen to that system, but I don't know if I'm ready to make the jump to a FM223 just yet. You definitely helped educate me about the... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @sokogear Yes, I appreciate my Rega P8, but you're right, Rega doesn't get any respect in the audiophile community. Maybe there's some valid rationale for that, as they don't subscribe to either major turntable paradigms: mass or suspension. ... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @terry9 Yes, I think I have to agree with you based on experience about your comment regarding active devices increasing noise. I think that is why I like the Ypsilon PST-100 Mk2 SE so much, as it is very transparent and clear in its passive mo... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @rauliruegas Thanks for including a paper on why you prefer a 9" tonearm over a 12" tonearm. My interest is piqued about FM Acoustics, and their FM223 phono linearizer. There are no reviews easily found on that unit in the US using a google ... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @rauliruegas : Thanks for taking interest in my musical dilemma. May I please ask why you suggest those over the higher end SME, or air bearing turntables? Is that the sweet spot in pricing? Thanks. | |
| VTL preamps and amps, co status? I can recommend LAMM and Ypsilon, as they have had very good to excellent response to buyers of their used gear. | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @mrklas While I have thoroughly enjoyed the Rega, I think I'll move to a different brand, just out of curiosity, if nothing else. The Rega P8 sounds great to my ears, but I've found that you don't think the sound can get any better, and then yo... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @billstevenson Thanks for the recommendation, but Miami is 5 hours away from me, and, as has been mentioned, dealers will peddle their own goods. (It may as well be NYC.) I was hoping a user had heard a couple of these turntables and could r... | |
| Soundsmith Strain Gauge Interesting. Thanks for sharing your experience with the SG. One comment that you made clarified a curiosity I had noticed on my own mid-level turntable, a Rega P8 with Linn Krystal cartridge: in works for one and two instruments, like piano, or ... | |
| Great Classical Recordings Any recording by Jordi Savall is excellent, but mostly on CD/SACD. He ranges the gamut from medieval to Beethoven. | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @craig The Sound Smith Strain Gauge sounds intriguing. Looks like @millercarbon has one also. With my Sound Labs and Ypsilons, clarity and transparency seem to be what I appreciate most, but not a sterile, flat transparency, just a musical clar... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @senza Thanks for that recommendation for two tonearms. . . I generally have tried to stay away from mono recordings, for the most part, but there are many historically important recordings from the pre-stereo (pre-1958) era that I might change ... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other No, I don't think I'll set up the cartridge on my own. @tomic601 Could you please elucidate how you would expect the TT to sound differently. Which of the three would be the most transparent in presentation? Thanks. | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other No. The problem is that there are no audio shops within 2 hours of where I live. It’s an audiophile desert here, so I was hoping to get some idea of the differences in sound between the different turntables, if any. . . To give you an idea of wha... |