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| Looking for a new phon cartridge @noromance @kennyc Any Koetsu will have to be NOS or used. The builder died and the company closed operations. | |
| Clearaudio Innovation [Wood] vs Master Innovation And for reference, I am using two 12" Universal tonearms. One has a Lyra Atlas Lambda SL and the other a Lyra Atlas Lambda Mono. I also use the Statement clamp and Clearaudio Outer Limit ring. One advantage of the Master Innovation is I can add a ... | |
| Looking for a new phon cartridge If you find a LOMC cartridge too hot or too bright, maybe the real problem is phono-stage loading. Trying increasing that (i.e. lower resistive values). I have Lyra Atlas and DV XVX-1s cartridges and I can definitely make them sound overly bright... | |
| Air Tight Opus 1........ @ckr1969 I also have the Atlas Lambda Mono. The SL is similar sound signature and performance. | |
| Air Tight Opus 1........ Would be curious how it stacks up to my Lyra Altas Lambda SL for about the same price. Not that I plan to make a change anytime soon or ever. Everything you describe about it matches how I described my Lyra after I first started using it. | |
| What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record? Clean it (Degritter Mk II, DW only), give it a fresh inner sleeve and a 5mil outer sleeve (for single/gatefold LPs), then I play it, and within a few days I catalog it. | |
| What Holiday Gifts did you ask for or Give to Yourself? With all this talk about cars, ...my wife told me the other night she thinks I should get myself a Porsche Macan GTS. I would love to but I just don't drive enough to justify it. I put more miles (about 6000) on my bicycles every year than on my c... | |
| What Holiday Gifts did you ask for or Give to Yourself? I'm giving myself a Boulder 1108 phono-stage to replace a Naim Superline/Supercap I have now. It won't arrive until January though. | |
| Clearaudio Clarify Help Needed! @dover Thank you for making that correction about Clarify VTF adjustment. I noticed it was wrong but no longer have that arm and haven’t for some time, so let it go. The Clarify, Magnify, Universal (and Tracer I think) all adjust VTF using the kn... | |
| Is There a New Record Pressing Machine Out There? @mijostyn I think they look nice, but it doesn’t seem to make much difference for me. I don’t manually cue records and I also use an outer ring. It might be that the ring pulls lipless discs down better onto the platter, but I can’t tell for sure. | |
| Clearaudio Clarify Help Needed! I had a Clearaudio Ovation, which came with a Clarify arm originally. It was a problematic arm with the magnetic bearings and I was happy to get rid of it and all the woofer pumping it caused. And adjusting AS from underneath was bonkers. I never ... | |
| Is There a New Record Pressing Machine Out There? Quality Record pressings in Salina, KS has had the ability to press discs without a lip all along. My Analog Productions subscription series of Prestige Mono and Stereo reissues are pressed with no lip, while my subscription series of the RCA Li... | |
| New Fozgometer V2 Can't Zero Meter I have the V1 and it works well. If you are in the U.S. contact Musical Surroundings. They'll get you sorted out resolving whatever problem it has. | |
| Tone arm length I have an Innovation [Wood - which is no longer used for the model name]. I have two 12" Universal arms on mine, and I used to have a 9" instead for one of them. Both have Lyra Atlas cartridges. One is the SL (stereo) and the other is the Mono. I ... | |
| Dynavector XV-1S My Dynavector XV-1s went back to Japan for a factory rebuild. It came back better sounding than it ever was. The distributor told me when they performed the rebuild they included improvements they’ve made to the model it since mine was new. I can... |