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| Micro RX 5000 Renaissance? @amg56, I agree. The capitalist need for cheap labor ushered in globalism - as a slightly more civilised form of colonialist exploitation - and the communist regime in China opened their doors in a desperate attempt of revigorate their own declini... | |
| Micro RX 5000 Renaissance? Sorry, I was being sloppy. The correct URL is www.Micro-Seiki.nl which shows the RX-5000 exact copy called ’The Tribute’. This can be joined by a German made motor drive by Dereneville (www.AVdesignhaus.de).The table displayed by Acoustical System... | |
| are "LONDON" pressings made in the UK, inferior to the Decca pressings @wynpalmer4, thank you so much for sharing this information. It really is most valuable to get first hand confirmation that UK pressed SXL and CS labels were created equal by someone who was actually there! But in your experience the SXL's are sti... | |
| are "LONDON" pressings made in the UK, inferior to the Decca pressings @lewm , I'm not sure about the Decca - London situation in the late 70's. Perhaps Decca had changed their export policy by then. I do know that the New Malden pressing plant in the UK was shut down completely in the early '80's and Decca's were pr... | |
| are "LONDON" pressings made in the UK, inferior to the Decca pressings @harold-not-the-barrel , thanks for the kind words!I'm not a great Genesis fan, so I don't have first hand experience with that particular LP. First you should understand that this so called 'Decca - London debate' only has a bairing on the classi... | |
| Audiophile LP's Many valuable suggestions of course, but perhaps a more generalized approach could be helpful as well. Here are some basic guidelines I've found useful in many years of record collecting:1. Some labels had higher sonic standards than others and ar... | |
| Anyone familiar with Ikeda 9 series (cantileverless kind) MC cartridges? @nandric Well, extraordinary tastes maybe, but alas not extraordinary means. Which has prompted me to investigate in those 'old' designs that are no longer 'relevant' vis à vis the current 'breakthroughs' in high end cartridge design. Or so the re... | |
| Anyone familiar with Ikeda 9 series (cantileverless kind) MC cartridges? I did some more searching on the web and found that vinyl engine lists no fewer than 14 different 'variations' on the cantilever-less 'theme'. In alphabetic order: 9B, than 9C, 9C II, 9C III, 9C IV and 9C V, 9CU, 9EM, 9EM PL, 9 Musa, 9 Omega, 9R, ... | |
| Anyone familiar with Ikeda 9 series (cantileverless kind) MC cartridges? Dear Nandric,I meant ’different versions’ of the 9 series, assuming Mr. Ikeda administered equal treatment to ’each member’ of his family.But I have always wondered why there’s such a wide range of recommended VTF within this ’family’ (ranging fro... | |
| Anyone familiar with Ikeda 9 series (cantileverless kind) MC cartridges? It seems there was a wide range of different requirements for each member of the original Ikeda 9 family. I own Ikeda 9 Rex, but I'm not sure if this is the R version ddriveman is referring to. The Rex supposedly was one of the top models in the r... | |
| Micro seiki bl-91 turntable with tonearm and Mission Cartridge @signmanrich: your system is more than good enough to add a good phono amp, hook up the BL-91 and start enjoying vinyl. I'd say keep it in the family! The addition of the CU-180 copper mat will definitely lift its performance considerably, but buy... | |
| Micro seiki bl-91 turntable with tonearm and Mission Cartridge No problem selling this I guess, as Micro’s are much sought after these days. The BL-91 is the model where things start to get interesting. It has the same bearing as the RX-1500 series, so it can even be upgraded with the RT-2000 gunmetal plateau... | |
| Blue Note reissues To return to the OP's question concerning Blue Note reissues, I can recommend the londonjazzcollector website, which gives very detailed information on the label and a ranking of sound quality of all the various (re)pressings over the years.There ... | |
| are "LONDON" pressings made in the UK, inferior to the Decca pressings @roxy1927 Don't worry being shredded, at least not by me. The reason these Jubilee's generally sound great is because Decca used the same quality level (metalwork as well as cutting engineers) for these budget pressings as they did for the origina... | |
| are "LONDON" pressings made in the UK, inferior to the Decca pressings @syntax That's interesting. Most collectors say they prefer SXL's over CS's, probably in an attempt to defend their buying decisions. You are the first person I come across who actually prefers the London's for their sonics. Which still seems to s... |