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| Woody Shaw- Blackstone Legacy I got my copy this weekend and is it great. FYI: even though the web site and hype sticker say it was mastered/cut by Kevin Gray, that's wrong. It's done by Bernie Grundman. The two discs have his very recognizable "BG" scribbled in the run outs. | |
| Clearaudio universal tonearm re-wire. @mulveling Thanks for weighing in on this. I agree with you. OMG: I had a Clarify and then a Magnify. Those magnetic bearings arms are just evil. Add a pair of subs to the mix and listen to the feedback go completely crazy. Musical Surroundings do... | |
| Clearaudio universal tonearm re-wire. @mijostyn I can confirm that looking at a Clearaudio Universal tonearm does not result in broken head shell wires. I have hours of experience doing just that and it never happened. The truth of the matter is that the fragility of the head shell w... | |
| What Cartridge Manufacturers Will Retip Their Moving Coil Cartridges For A Fee? I have two Lyra Atlas Lambda (SL + Mono) and a DV XV-1s. I am happy for them to get a rebuild. I don't see a need to get a whole new cartridge out of it. A rebuild the way Lyra and DV do it is pretty much the same thing anyway. It costs an arm and... | |
| Clearaudio universal tonearm re-wire. @hiendmmoe @mijostyn is happy to offer his expertise, but he didn’t answer my question about his real-world experience with this arm. His advice is very good if not painfully obvious to most of us doing our own setup. I wonder if he’s touched or... | |
| What Cartridge Manufacturers Will Retip Their Moving Coil Cartridges For A Fee? Lyra rebuild Etna and Altas cartridges. Dynavector rebuild the XV-1s and XV-1t cartridges. They go back to Japan. It's more than a retip. You get all new internals, including dampers/suspension. Only the body and magnets are reused. For both brand... | |
| Clearaudio universal tonearm re-wire. @mijostyn All good advice that I follow anyway. However, I know that my dealer does all those things too, and has broken wires. Once, Musical Surroundings sent me a warranty replacement Universal and when it arrived two of the head shell wires we... | |
| Clearaudio universal tonearm re-wire. I have two Universal arms and those litz wires give me major stress anytime I have to swap a cartridge. I am super careful and have been lucky so far, but I'm interested in solutions if I ever have an issue. I assume repeated cartridge changes wil... | |
| UPS Driver Literally Drops Package with New Hana Umami Red @cbl117 OK, so your dealer drop shipped the cartridge to you. I stand corrected. It’s still not a big deal. Packages get dropped all the time, over the course of transit. It’s up to the shipper to package things appropriately. Most do. | |
| Rockford Fosgate Signature Phono Pre needs repair The Fosgate phono-stage and headphone amp are long discontinued. The Fozgometer is still a current product and was upgraded to a v2 not so long ago. Jim Fosgate died this past December. | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights What I have will have to do for now. I'm going back to my blissful ignorance where I enjoy music and have nothing to worry about. :) | |
| Rockford Fosgate Signature Phono Pre needs repair I think MS also used an east coast facility for the repair of mine. It came back and worked for about a week before developing the same fault again. That’s when I was refunded. Ended up with a Herron VTPH-2 (upgraded later to 2a) and used that for... | |
| Rockford Fosgate Signature Phono Pre needs repair Try contacting Musical Surroundings. They are the former distributor for the Fosgate Signature. I once had a Signature V2. It ended up with right channel problems that never did get fixed correctly. I ended up getting a full refund from the deale... | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights @mijostyn OK. I got that one, for a couple bucks. If I put my iPhone on the platter and bang on the isolation platform I get tiny little blips (like small bubbles). If I bang on the rack the isolation platform sits on the tiny blips are even tini... | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights @mijostyn who's the app publisher? There's more than one fitting your description. The one I got comes up as "Vibration Meter, seismograph": "Measure all vibrations" by ExaMobile S.A. |