effischer
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| Jelco and Dynavector The TKR is a very high-end cartridge and would definitely benefit from installation in the best tonearm you can afford. I have an XX2 Mk II in a Graham Phantom Supreme and am continually impressed with the detail the combo reveals, even with mater... | |
| Issue setting up Graham Phantom II Supreme Looked at your photos, and the Magnaglide azimuth adjustment bracket (is also the mount for the anti-skate cantilever tether is definitely not perpendicular to the vertical bearing well shaft in the first one. The second one, while still showing t... | |
| ISO Mac MC 2200 parts Second Audio Classics. First rate support there. | |
| Which preamp is better C50 or C2500 for MC402? The C50 and C2500 are roughly equivalent in price and features. As noted by the others, it depends much more on whether you want to go with the tube sound.I had a C2300 for 6 months and loved it. But. It took about 3 hours or so to warm up and I c... | |
| Opinions Wanted on changing Turntable The biggest difference in sound will come from your transducers. If the table works well, stick with it. Save your money for a new cartridge. With the scratch you will save, you could move up to a Dynavector XX2 Mk II and have enough to get a matc... | |
| Processor/AVR help and suggestions I auditioned the MX120 a couple of years ago when I was setting up my rig, and I found it weak in 2 channel mode. Not entirely sure if that was also an artifact of the source, but it definitely didn't work for me. I'm a vinyl head, and the lack of... | |
| We get into a GROOVE. Like any product class, some are better than others. I have vinyl from the 50s that holds its own against MFSL and SuperDisk stuff from the 70s & 80s. I've also a picked up some new pressings like Chick Corea's The Vigil and St. Vincent's Stra... | |
| setting azimuth Agree with Doug; do the rough in by eye then listen. I started with a test record to dial it in more precisely then did some critical listening of stuff I know well for the final touch. I've also heard the Fozgometer works well, but I can't see ho... | |
| Turntable Upgrade: What Sonic areas will improve? Spend more, relatively speaking, on the cartridge than the table. Rega, VPI, Sota, Pro-Ject, they're all good. Pick one that has the features you like. On cartridges, I'm a big fan of Dynavector and Ortofon. I find they offer a superior value and ... | |
| LS3/5A vs Sonus Faber EA/Minima The Rogers are nice, but grossly inefficient near-field speakers since they were designed to be a small studio monitor, not a loudspeaker. The MC275 is a nice match to them, but you may find you don't get enough SPL on bold passages. The Sonus Fab... | |
| Repair worth it? If all the JVC needs is a cleaning and demagnetization, you should be able to find cleaning supplies and a demagnetizer on-line, either NOS here or Ebay or new from some place like Needle Doctor. The Nak is worth fixing, so long as it isn't too mu... | |
| Why did you choose a horn based loudspeaker? Had a couple pair of Klipsch Heresy's back in the day; one home audio pair and one pair of stage monitors. They were hyper-efficient and had nice dynamic range for the relatively low-powered amps I had available (Hafler DH200, DH220 and a Dunlap-C... | |
| Spin Clean seems to add noise to records? For decades I've only used LAST Power Cleaner to remove the mold release compound from new records, LAST cleaner on an old-school Discwasher brush, LAST preservative and LAST stylus preservative on every side. Works like a charm. Recently invested... | |
| old verses new ??? I'm still using my recently refurbished 1984 Sota Sapphire, and I'd stack my rig up against anything under $10K made today. | |
| Back to basics Tough to say for sure without knowing the rest of your gear, but take a look at Pro-Ject and Rega. Good tables, solid value and decent sound for under $500 including arm and MM cartridge. They both also offer higher end units for not much more $$$... |