effischer
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| Phono Cartridge advice The 20X2 will be a more revealing and neutral cartridge in your rig. The high output version will save you a few hundred bucks, as you noted. If you really want to extract the best from your vinyl, spend the extra bucks to properly rig a low outpu... | |
| Tandberg 2075 or Mcintosh MAC 4200. Better? Yogiboy is correct. Tandberg made superb gear, especially their tape decks, but they are long gone and parts are almost impossible to come by. Soundsmith is the only US company I know of that can fix their stuff and they charge an arm and a leg to... | |
| $7K to spend on new turntable + arm I'm very pleased with my Sota Sapphire. Bought it new back in 1984 and had it refurbished by Sota last year. $7K should get you a really, really nice rig going that route. Have fun! | |
| Recommend an Entry Level Turntable A Pro-Ject Debut Carbon might be a good way to start. It has a good Ortofon 2M Red pre-installed and should work well with your B&Ws and Denon. It would definitely be a step up from your old B&O and there are lots of online reviews as well... | |
| Best Cartridge for my system, MC or MM ?? I'm a huge fan of Dynavector and have found their carts to be neutral, revealing and very musical with a superior soundstage in comparison to others over many years. I'd suggest you consider going with the 20X2 H instead of the 10X5. It has a slig... | |
| A Possible Reason for SACD to be Superior SACD has both more dynamic range and greater frequency response (numerically up to 100kHz, functionally to 50kHz under most conditions). It also uses a different encoding system (1 bit DSD versus 16 bit PCM in CD Red Book), which theoretically mis... | |
| Cartridge Skips Beginning of Record Sorry to say but by adjusting the VTA to clear the cueing assembly, you may now have a tracking problem. 2mm is a HUGE adjustment of VTA. Unless you've had some major serendipity through this change moving the overall VTA closer to the "ideal" ave... | |
| McIntosh 2150 hopes of synergy You should consider investing a few hundred bucks in gasoline/airfare/hotel to try and get some auditions in before pulling the trigger on purchases. Speakers are an incredibly personal choice, and no amount of review can substitute for actually l... | |
| What to do with a Sony PS X-800? Sold these back in the day, and it was a very nice table. Very solid Japanese direct drive sound. Not as pretty as the B&O, but more thoroughly engineered. Repairing the unit is a tough call unless you are really married to how it sounds in yo... | |
| Tube rolling 12AX7As Newbee and Lowrider are correct. The C2300 is a wonderful unit out of the box and you'll want to know how it matches with everything else in your system before fooling around with changing its sound. Took me about 6 months with mine until I had a ... | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE Rogers Studio 1, purchased new in 1983. 30 years on, and I still love the way they sound. Every upgrade in my gear has allowed them to reveal more and become more musical. I may move on one day, but that day isn't today. | |
| Cleaning new/sealed records? Always clean records before playing. Always. And for all the reasons everyone else has noted. You wouldn't want to look at the world through smudged glass, so why would you listen to to debris on a surface?I've used LAST Power Cleaner (mold releas... | |
| Tonearm/Cartridge Matching Totally agree with Mofimadness and for all the same reasons. So long as the cartridge tare weight is within the arm's range, set-up (alignment, azimuth, VTA, VTF, capacitance (MM), impedance (MC)) and general compatibility with your speakers is th... | |
| Why do McIntosh come with cheap plastic remotes? Have to disagree that the remotes are somehow substandard. Both of my new Mc units (C50 & MVP881BR) came with back-lit remotes that work very well. The soft-touch coating on the plastic has a nice feel and doesn't collect dust like the NOS rep... | |
| Test LP's Worth it? I also use the Hi-Fi News LP, and it helps you figure out what it says it does. I found it especially useful for fine-tuning azimuth and anti-skate. Like Moonglum says, it's still no substitute for music or a good protractor. |