effischer
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| New Tonearm for Sota: Origin encounter or graham It absolutely will work just fine. Had a Magnepan Unitrac I on mine until it finally couldn't be resuscitated anymore. Replaced it with a Graham Phantom Supreme. An awesome combo.Depending on the age of your table, you might want to install new su... | |
| McIntosh C 2300 vs BAT VK-52SE/51SE The C2300 is one of the best tube preamps ever made. If you don't plan on using it for vinyl, however, you can save some money going with the C2200. Guts are the same but the C2300 adds an extra MC phono section.Good luck & happy listening! | |
| How can I order a new arm board for my SOTA? You don't say if your 2.2 has the Graham mount or the SME mount. If it is the Graham mount, just order a new arm board for the Phantom instead. Phantom is a drop-in replacement for the 2.2, so it will be backwards-compatible (or very nearly so). Y... | |
| Graham Phantom Anti-Skate. Is it effective at all? My experience with the Graham fixtures for arm position and cart alignment was initially very trying. I have the 9" arm. To begin, arm position needs to be such that the spindle locator pin has no stress from any direction when the headshell recep... | |
| How long before your cartridge warms up? Can't speak to the Anna, but my MCs (Dynavectors) and MMs (mostly Ortofons) never needed any warm-up once they were broken in (50+ hours or so). Waiting for the rest of the electronics to warm up is probably more important. My system doesn't reall... | |
| mc302 or mc352 You don't say what you're using for speakers, so that is a tough call to make. I can say I love my MC302. Lots of depth, punch, beautiful imaging and silent. Good luck & happy listening! | |
| Sheffield Lab Thank you, Al. The audio hobby, like any hobby, is supposed to be fun. Yet people often take it too seriously. So much so that it can be difficult to ignore their bloaviating vituperance. | |
| Sheffield Lab I'm especially fond of the Dave Grusin and Harry James LPs. I constantly refer back to them whenever I need a touchstone after making a system change or listening to something I think might approach that level. I also find the Drum Disk and Track ... | |
| What can I expect, if anything going from a ma6500 D100 functions as either a pre-amp or DAC-only, so no problem going direct to the MC302. It also offers balanced outputs, a big plus going to a separate amplifier and improves the S/N ratio on the MC302 quite a bit. Only drawback is that D100 has ... | |
| Placing B&W 801s3 in Small Thin Room I have seen folks use radically different alignments of woofer to mid/hi modules in the 801, even so far as the woofers toed-out. Most common is woofers square to the rear wall and modules toed-in. It all depends on the room acoustics and your ear... | |
| Placing B&W 801s3 in Small Thin Room Nice rig! You don't say how far apart the speakers are, but I suggest you start with moving the speakers further away from the back wall, maybe go to 2 feet. That should bring the bottom end more in-line. Double-check the mid and high range adjust... | |
| What's your latest album purchase? Jaco Pastorius - The Criteria Sessions (RSD special re-release)Santana - Moonflower (used original CBS release)Thelonius Monk - Solo Monk (CBS re-release)Miles Davis - In A Silent Way (MFSL remaster release 1-377)Zappa & The Mothers - Uncle Me... | |
| Best Rock Album of 2014 St. Vincent. | |
| Amp recommendation for B&W 801 Matrix SII speakers Just did a double-check on Audio Classics' site and realized I made a mistake - had auditioned a 402, not a 452. Not sure how much difference it really made; the 452 is really only an update of 402. So many variables when doing demos, anyway. Stil... | |
| Amp recommendation for B&W 801 Matrix SII speakers MC302 is a newer design than the 452. They changed something and it definitely improved the sound, IMO. That's the fun of the hobby - finding the pleasant surprise! |