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| Who needs a Diamond Cantilever...? 💍 Are we creating our own little 'echo chamber' here?As said, the custom model has an integrated headshell. Just Google XL-88D and the pictures pop up.... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Great suggestions frogman, the Four Last Song by Schwarzkopf and Szell would be one of my desert island picks. Solti’s Elektra too (yup, I’d need a pretty big island...). But the original ED2 label Decca pressing is actually cheaper than the Speak... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 My previous message prompted me to play that record again and what do you know, I had the names mixed up. The earlier BPO recording is also with Paul Tortelier. Oeps.....I played both versions and my memory that they're quite different still makes... | |
| Who needs a Diamond Cantilever...? 💍 Halcro, the XL-88D custom has an integrated headshell, like the XL-55 Pro. There are better pictures that also show the words 'Sony Sound Tec' on the red upper part of the shell. This version may even be more rare than your - uh - 'regular' 88D. I... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Good find, Halcro. Kempe was surely one of the great Strauss conductors. You should also try his way with Wagner and Brahms. And HMV did some historic recordings behind the iron curtain in the 70's. Another high point was Karajan's Meistersinger, ... | |
| Turntable cost:benefit I guess it’s easy to make fun of people with - say - a $25k turntable (actually modest by today’s standards) and a few dozen ’audiophile’ reissues to play. It’s even more pathetic when you realize that many of those so called audiophile pressings ... | |
| VPI's new "Vanquish" Ultra High-End turntable is a STUNNER! @mijostyn, I seriously contemplated your suggestion. What's holding me back is that the Zero is not exactly a 'mobile device'. Otherwise I could sell the house to buy it..... ;-). | |
| VPI's new "Vanquish" Ultra High-End turntable is a STUNNER! @mijostyn, TechDas is the first company I think of as a design trying to push the enveloppe. With the current renaissance of vinyl playback they gave Hideaki Nichikawa - the designer of top Micro tables like the SX-8000 mk2 - the opportunity to bu... | |
| VPI's new "Vanquish" Ultra High-End turntable is a STUNNER! I guess it depends on your definition of 'money's worth'. If a person wants a trophy to show off and likes the VPI's idea of good taste, he'll probably have his pride of ownership. That's what this is all about anyway. It's got nothing to do with ... | |
| VPI's new "Vanquish" Ultra High-End turntable is a STUNNER! Hyper capitalism leads to hyper consumption in just about any consumer product category you care to think of. Actually it's sort of a mystery why it took the audio industry such a long time to tap into this market. Perhaps it's because audio was j... | |
| Phono Pre Upgrade from Parasound JC-3? I tend to agree with @mijostyn that you will have a hard time improving on the JC-3 at this price level, especially if balanced operation is required. The Boulder 1008 would be a major step up, which I've compared head-to-head with the JC-3. Retai... | |
| So many great golden era DD tables out there, what do you recommend for $1000? As far as I know Micro never moved from direct drive to belt drive. They simultaniously offered a range of direct drives (DD-series) and belt drives (BL-series). That being said, they went much higher end with belt drives (RX- and SX-series) than ... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 No, not really. I only have a humble Nakamichi 700 II cassette recorder. I bought it for nostalgic reasons mostly and while it sounds very nice, it's no match for vinyl playback. For that you probably need to look at 2 track open reel at 38 cm/sec... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 @halcro,Digitizing would be very silly of course, but you now have the perfect excuse to buy the best open reel tape machine you can afford to preserve the Sony sound in all analog....... | |
| JVC MC1 Moving Coil Cartridge - Heritage? @best-groove, you don't have to apologize for your use of English (it's not my first language either), but I wasn't sure if I were to consider myself as a 'non-conformist audiophile', an 'ignoble (?) influencer' or one of the 'weak people' being t... |