dwette
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| Should people with no turntable or reel to reel be considered audiophiles? I have a turntable. I don't know if I have an Audiophile Card, but if I do can someone tell me where I go to relinquish it. Or can I just burn it? | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? If you don’t have the turntable, arm, phono cables and phono-stage to support a high-end cartridge you might not hear much of a difference between $5k and $10k. A $10k cartridge might just as well expose the flaws of the system as anything if you ... | |
| Clearaudio Innovation [Wood] vs Master Innovation @mgrif104 Oh, my bad, I didn’t check my editing well enough. The turntable I had prior to my Innovation was a Clearaudio Ovation. I had that for about 12 years. I was actually quite happy with it, but had a windfall that afforded me the upgrade t... | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? It's my pleasure to show you how to make wallets defy gravity and levitate. But yeah, a true mono cartridge really brings new life to mono records. It was a revelation for me how good it is. | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? @luis223344 What’s nice about my setup is I have the exact mono counterpart to my stereo cartridge (Lyra Atlas: SL + Mono), both on identical tonearms on the same turntable. Both also run through the same phono-stage. I’ve been able to really see... | |
| Clearaudio Innovation [Wood] vs Master Innovation I definitely recommend the Innovation. It's a fantastic turntable. My Innovation has two Clearaudio Universal 12" tonearms, one for mono playback, and one for stereo. If I upgrade to the Master Innovation I will continue using both tonearms. I pr... | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? @luis223344 I have a lot of jazz/classical/rock mono records (hundreds). It was worth it to me to get another tonearm and a mono cartridge. Playing mono records with a true mono cartridge is so much better than playing them with a stereo cartridge... | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? I never went from a $5K to a $10 cartridge but I did go from a $5650 Dynavector XV-1s to a $12,995 Lyra Atlas Lambda SL (both have since gone up in price). As great as the XV-1s is, there's no contest. The Lyra spanks it in every category, and the... | |
| Turntable Upgrade I think VTA on-the-fly is overrated. I had that on my Clearaudio Ovation and found I never used it if I wanted to listen to music. When I upgraded to a Clearaudio Innovation I didn't bother getting the arm board that supports fitting the Clearaudi... | |
| How often do you upgrade turntable ? I bought an LP12 ca. 1987, after using a Thorens TD126 Mk II for some years. The LP12 fell into disrepair and wasn't used for a long time. Then I got a Rega RP3 in 2010, a Clearaudio Ovation in 2011 and a Clearaudio Innovation in 2023. On the last... | |
| Dusting gear and turntable @oldaudiophile hey, you asked, so I answered. I don't bother with a dust cover. I wouldn't be able to fit one for my turntable anyway, and it's really not a big problem. | |
| Dusting gear and turntable @oldaudiophile Stereo Squares (stereosquares.com) will make acrylic dust covers to standard sizes and/or to spec. They do very nice work. | |
| Dusting gear and turntable I don't really have much issues with dust. My wife vacuums on a regular basis (2-3 times/week), and even checks that I have the stylus guards fitted to both tonearms before she goes into the listening room with it vacuum. I have a feather duster f... | |
| Klimo type phono stage from China fills the roll of dual inputs. 1 MM and 1 MC. One MM and one MC does not fill the role of dual inputs in my book. That falls quite short compared to phono-stages that have two inputs, where each is configurable for either MM or MC independentl... | |
| Karajan Mahler Six There’s a Tracking Angle article/review by Mark Ward that’s very well written. https://trackingangle.com/music/the-original-source-does-mahler-on-steroids |