elliottbnewcombjr
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| Goodbye Everyone dogberry 241 posts 04-11-2023 at 08:08pm "I have pretty much stuck with film. Film cameras, vinyl records, tube amps, steam locos, and black powder muzzleloaders all get me going. I seem to have been born in the wrong era!" .................... | |
| How should I upgrade? A new preamp with a phono stage or just a phono preamp? New, Phono anything, I recommend finding sources that allow returns. Have/try MC, use alternate cartridges? No matter external or internal, I chose to get a separate SUT with some variations of impedance and 3 selectable inputs, thus only 1 cabl... | |
| Did the Old Receivers Sound Good? Finally: specs/reviews (I constantly read Julian Hirsch during the ’specs era’)... I settled on: "Is it INVOLVING?" Sucks you into the content, forget the equipment. Listen for a long session with no fatigue? For me, tubes are more involving th... | |
| Goodbye Everyone grislybutter 1,195 posts 04-11-2023 at 03:56pm ok, now that I see things clearly.... This was a retirement party scam! ..................................... I retired 12 years ago, no party then or since. We had an elderly stock broker and... | |
| Vibration isolation or absorption? Sandwiches to the Rescue. My Springy wood floors are problematic. I ended up with the Vintage JVC TT with very heavy 7 layer plinth. Next put TT on these, a trial, they luckily were just right. https://www.amazon.com/Turntable-Equipment-Tuneful... | |
| Recommendations for a vacum tube tester BALANCE Controls, especially using tube equipment! Remote Balance a wonderful thing. A very small balance tweak can make a surprising amount of difference. | |
| Wayne's Audio Turntable Periphery Stabilizing Outer Ring btw, IF your cartridge is a LOW RIDER, the clearance between the bottom of the cartridge body and the top of the ring may be very small, or not enough, so that the beginning of track 1 cannot be played, the cartridge body must move 'in' enough fo... | |
| What is the most challenging music to play on a stereo? CD’s (lp’s are subject to any possible/minor alignment errors, a particular cartridge’s sound). (turn your ac system off). Vocals: I listen at home; take these CDs to Showrooms; then listen again at home. There are dynamic portions, but I want t... | |
| Who else can't sleep the night before their fancy new gears arrive? Or the day(s) after! My first 'system' from Sam Goody, 1967 with wedding money: TT, AR-2ax Speakers; Fisher 200T SS receiver. Promised delivery, looking out the window, oh yeah, there's the truck! TT, Speakers, NO Receiver. Phones broken all t... | |
| Goodbye Everyone Well, so far no one has said ’Good Riddance!) I appreciate these many encouraging thoughts, and also see many names I don’t recognize, part of my suspected OTHERS I suppose. Alright, based on the love, I’ll stick around! .......................... | |
| Goodbye Everyone bubba12 The Audiogon system doesn't exactly make it easy to know anyone is actually responding to someone. I find it tricky. ....................... I have 'snuck' my email address via Private Messages and gained some new friends who come here,... | |
| Goodbye Everyone noromance I even miss MC! I miss MC and don't forget Chakster | |
| Goodbye Everyone grislybutter 1,180 posts 04-10-2023 at 12:49pm many of the most practical, sensible advices came from him, he has been always curious and clever. I hope it’s nothing health-related and irreversible NOT HEALTH RELATED. I'm not whining, or sco... | |
| How should I upgrade? A new preamp with a phono stage or just a phono preamp? Tubes/tubes/tubes, my preference I always recommend FEATURES, the vintage tube preamps have it all. (except remote) Using my McIntosh mx110z as an example only because I know it best (although I had similar full features on prior McIntosh SS C28... | |
| Wayne's Audio Turntable Periphery Stabilizing Outer Ring I bought one, used, perfect, nice price compared to new at Wayne's. SS-1 or SS-2, it's downstairs, https://www.waynesaudio.com/shop I'm using a walker these days, I'll find which one another time. It's very nice, impressive quality, has easy ce... |