effischer
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| Radio stations for Jazz.... WXTS Toledo, run by the high school. WAER Syracuse, Syracuse University. KUNV Las Vegas, UNLV. Jazz 91, 91.5 Toronto; commercial and actually outstanding IMO. +1 for Orlando and New Orleans - excellent stations. All of them available online, t... | |
| LAST record preservative improves the sound +1 mofimadness! I started with LAST back when the dealer I worked for started offering it in 1982. Never looked back. Unmatched for their preservative and I've had excellent success with the cleaners. That's what I call happy listening! | |
| No bass with new turntable? Glad to note you've obtained more satisfactory results. The biggest differences in turntable performance often come from tiny changes. Alignment is probably the most important, closely followed by VTF and VTA. Pro-Ject makes a nice protractor c... | |
| Is New Vinyl Exempt from Loudness Wars? My experience has been mixed. I though the Annie Lennox and Bennet/Gaga LPs from last year excellent while Florence & The Machine's How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful was compressed garbage. I also found Adele's 21 almost unlistenable in both ... | |
| No bass with new turntable? Mapman and czarivy are correct. Something is not set up correctly and/or damaged. For brevity, I'll assume you've correctly set any load switches in your preamp (I'm not familiar with it). Because these tables are typically supplied with pre-in... | |
| Rega Planar 2 Refurb There are a number of people who can rewire the RB250 relatively quickly and inexpensively. Do a search here in the Turntables and Tonearms category and you'll find them (one of the better known uses the heading "Cardas rewire service"). IMO, un... | |
| Sound quality of Genesis remastered CDs? Thanks for the input. The Dynamic Range database was very interesting, and I appreciate the tip Geoff. Wish I'd known about it before I plunked down my $20 or so for the turkeys I ended up with.Looks like I'll have to search for some of the olde... | |
| Turntable for life All about the music for me, now. I might go for a higher end cartridge at some point, but I'd have to do speakers to make that worthwhile. More cubic dollars than I'm comfortable with at the moment.So, searching for new and used vinyl is back to... | |
| McIntosh MC240 needs restoration. Definitely Audio Classics. Talk to Ryan. Matt has the right call on the box, too. Don't fool around. | |
| record cleaning methods...................... I'm sure folks will chime in shortly, but you should run a search. There are over 7200 threads on this topic in the archives.Happy listening! | |
| VPI or Pro-ject Give consideration to a Sota Sapphire. It's a terrific table at a great price point. With your budget, you could fit it with a great tonearm and cartridge. Fully equal or superior to either the Pro-ject or VPI, IMO.Good luck & happy listening! | |
| When is your Hifi good enough? When I consistently hear new details and nuances in material I know well. Still at that stage with my current rig, so consider myself "there" at this point in time.For contrast, I recently did some auditions with TOTL Magicos and Wilsons driven b... | |
| Cartridge Advice Second the DV suggestion. The 17 was one of the very best when originally released back in the day and subsequent upgrades have kept it current (D3 now). Can't speak to synergy with the Krell gear, but tube pre-pre and the B&Ws should love i... | |
| New TT -- $1k - $1500 FWIW, there is a Sota Sapphire that just popped up here from a guy in Toronto with a number of updates at the low end of your range. That leaves enough room left over for both a new arm and cartridge if desired. I have been totally satisfied wit... | |
| Which has higher priority, overhang or VTA? Some good points above, and my experience has been that VTA has a substantial impact on sound. Conical styli are unaffected by VTA as they have a uniform cross-section from tip to base. All other styli shapes are affected to greater or lesser de... |