dwette
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| How much do I need to spend to make vinyl sound better than digital? It's not primarily budget. Sure you can't build it out of soup cans and wire, but good sound is more about knowledge and effort and not $$$. But once you obtain the knowledge you've gotten too smart for your own good, and the $$$ comes into pl... | |
| Ultrasonic Cleaning Machine @lalitk Fidelity Imports is the US importer. https://fidelityimports.com What a foobar website. Every "Learn More" link about their products redirects to a dealer login page. Fail! | |
| Ultrasonic Cleaning Machine I have a Degritter II and it is well worth the money, IMO. But I have 5k LPs so it's a reasonable investment. Personally, I wouldn't want a US cleaner that doesn't also dry after washing. I have been down that wet road and it's bumpy and not fun. | |
| How much do I need to spend to make vinyl sound better than digital? @inna Phono stage should cost two or better three times more than the cartridge Oh snap!!! Now I need to buy a $45K phono stage, just after I bought a decent one for less...or is that a $90K phono-stage? I have two Lyra Atlas. I guess my analo... | |
| How much do I need to spend to make vinyl sound better than digital? @zx10 Vinyl can never sound like SACD on a good player I agree completely. SACD is so underwhelming on my system I never bothered to buy a player, and am glad I saved the money on hardware and software. It definitely wasn't any better than th... | |
| How much do I need to spend to make vinyl sound better than digital? ONE. MILLION. DOLLARS. Seriously though. Despite what @ntpc4 claims (and baseless generalizations like that suck anyway), my $60K analog front end still completely smokes my $16K network streamer every day of the week. It’s not even close. :) Vi... | |
| DIN Phono Cable @lewm There are plenty of turntables where that right-angle DIN really isn't a concern. I will have my cables built with straight-on DIN connectors. | |
| DIN Phono Cable I'm shopping around for a DIN-XLR phono cable. I got a fully balanced phono-stage earlier this year, so I now have my two tonearms out for a rewire with silver litz cables and DIN termination. Right now I have a Cardas (aka Musical Surroundings Re... | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? @inna Doesn’t it bother you people that cartridges sound so different ? Doesn’t it bother you people that speakers sound so different? Doesn’t it bother you people that amps sound so different? Doesn’t it bother you people that preamps sound ... | |
| New cartridge vs. Re-tipped @jcarr Thanks so much for posting this. I am a happy owner of both Atlas Lambda SL and Atlas Lambda Mono (Joe Harley talked me into it ). These are great, great cartridges and I have saved this information you posted for future reference. I k... | |
| IsoAcoustics Gaia feet on Oracle Delphi turntable I once tried a set of Gaia III as replacement feet for my Clearaudio Ovation (about 45 lbs). I didn’t care for that so much, so I got an isoAcoustics Delos isolation base. That worked so much better. In summer 2013 I upgraded that Ovation to an In... | |
| New cartridge vs. Re-tipped @chayro @dogberry @mulveling Thanks for your feedback. I’ve only heard great things about Joseph Long and mixed reviews about VAS, so I’ll stand with what I said before in considering the former and avoiding the latter. I've also heard good thi... | |
| New cartridge vs. Re-tipped I’m still trying to decide what to do with my broken Koetsu Rosewood but sending it to Joseph Long (groovetickler) is at the top of my list. A couple people have said to me elsewhere not to use VAS. When I inquired with VAS he said I had to send i... | |
| New cartridge vs. Re-tipped It's costly to do but there is no way I would send my Lyra cartridges to a 3rd party for retip. Factory rebuild is the way to go, especially with Etna and Atlas. I have a Koetsu Rosewood Signature with a missing stylus. It was given to me by a de... | |
| New cartridge vs. Re-tipped To follow on my previous post. I had my Dynavector XV-1s factory rebuilt early last year. It came back better than it ever was before. The distributor (he’s local to me and told me himself) said when they rebuilt it they included improvements to t... |