edgewear
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| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD @chrisoshea,With this 'logic' one should probably not buy used records either. One never known how it has been handled, how often it was played and with what stylus, does one? Glad it isn't my logic, or else I wouldn't have any records.......It ha... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD @prof + 1Very similar to my story, but at least 'Prof' was smart enough to keep his vinyl records. I was so stupid to fall for the 'perfect sound' hype and sold my records around 1988 and entirely switched to cd's. With hindsight it wasn't just co... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? @daveyf Of course you're right and it's not just the subjective priorities of the listener (aka as 'taste'). We also have to account for the synergy (or not) with the turntable and the rest of the system. Not to mention the system / room interface... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? Finally, the two 'rip off' threads have joined forces. Now the ugly truth can be revealed. Huh? Well, it seems that judgement calls about the 'value' of tonearms and MC cartridges as isolated items are not very useful. The synergy between tonearm ... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @daveyf Oh yes, the system is broken and it definitely needs to change. And change it will: capitalist society cannot exist without the prospect of infinite economic growth and obviously that’s not possible. It seems we’re getting closer and close... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @daveyf Perhaps you should look at this from a different angle. We all know perfectly well there's a global consumer market in which 10k is considered pocket change. It is precisely this market that these cartridges are aimed at. They are just tro... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @chakster + 1The OP seems convinced that 'vintage' cartridges will inevitably sound mediocre compared to new top price MC's and that they will damage his records. He is wrong on both counts.On the first count: I have two modern cartridges, VdHul X... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? Surely this is getting a bit out of hand, doesn't it? We all know there is a group of people with excessive wealth and in our current economic system this can only go in one direction: further up. So what do you do when you already have a dozen ho... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64x @chakster looking forward to your sonic comparison between both arms! I do agree with your description of the built quality and operability of the 64fx. Definitely not 'a poor man's 64s'..... | |
| music matters blue note reissues - better in mono? @tzh21y, what titles are you referring to?Music Matters uses stereo masters whenever possible. Their argument - as explained in the accompanying booklet - is that Rudy van Gelder was an early adopter and from late 1958 onwards recorded only in ste... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges Okay, sorry for my misunderstanding: "o" point taken! | |
| Verastarr---Magnepan Upgrade No, but I can say that replacing the standard jumper bars by a good quality jumper cable (I use short lengths of Nordost Valkyrja) and the standard fuses with something better (I use Synergistic Research Black fuses) can make a huge difference. So... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges @chakster I agree that the choices made by the tonearm/cartridge designer are the most important and should not be disregarded. The FR-7 have the Stevenson alignment as part of their design criteria and the sonic results speak for themselves. @nan... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges The Stevenson alignment is generally regarded - on this forum and almost anywhere else - as inferior to Baerwald. Measurements seem to bear this out. So why did one of the most revered cartridge builders stick to this inferior alignment? We would ... | |
| Vintage Turntables compared to modern? It's not just vintage DD tables that have this ability to 'wipe the floor'. Last year I decided to replace a TW Acustic Raven GT SE (with AC-3 plateau and Black Night controller) with a Micro Seiki RX-1500 (with stainless steel plateau, R-15 mass ... |