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| Cartridge setup experts: Azimuth critique IF you have a removable headshell, this has two advantages 1. adjustable azimuth 2. no sides, so you have complete access to hold anything below without the sides blocking fingers/tools/vision. | |
| Cartridge setup experts: Azimuth critique Happy, yes. Plenty good. Shim kits are a real pain, and you might not improve your nearly perfect angle anyway, and you add something less solid between headshell and cartridge as well as a tiny unsupported gap both side to side and front to back... | |
| Luxman Preamps Some of us are suggesting tubes into your SS amp. Have you or will you consider, or have you ruled tubes out??? Here is a New Luxman Tube Preamp http://www.luxman.com/product/detail.php?id=35 As for one sounding ’better’, I think, not bette... | |
| Luxman Preamps I would be very tempted by this NOS Luxman Tube Preamp | |
| How to match a Cartridge with the right phono preamp? Another with flexibility, and affordable https://www.musicalparadise.ca/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=87 Perhaps someone here has heard these, not me. | |
| How to match a Cartridge with the right phono preamp? This one has lots of flexibility | |
| How to match a Cartridge with the right phono preamp? I decided, future cartridge(s) unknown, to go for some flexibility. Make sure it has PASS for MM to skip the internal transformer and go straight to your MM Phono Input. I chose a vintage Fidelity Research FRT-4 SUT, which has PASS and 4 selecta... | |
| Qln, Joseph Audio, Audiovector, Marten, or Canton...? I have not seen or heard any of them. Looking at all of them, glancing their specs, no more than that, I would pick the Canton Reference 7K White, Black, Wood | |
| Search for Linn Record albums but none are displayed Get thee a copy of Blue Nile, Walk ..... I pre-ordered it when it was announced, couldn't find my copy, bought a new LP, then found my original. | |
| Advice on equipment I would sell the Carver, keep the Fisher 800C (will be great with efficient speakers), keep the Sony, enough power for less efficient speakers now, use in a second system later. It can drive two sets of speakers (another space?). I use my transis... | |
| Welcome to Hell, here's your 8-Track 8 track was a revolution. for the 1st time we could take our music, and friends music in our cars, to each other's homes. | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl Proper installation/alignment/calibration is DEFINITELY needed for ANY TT setup, and ANY Cartridge on ANY TT for superior results. Done properly, (surely this OP does not have the tools and acquired skills), the comparisons get 'real' and in my c... | |
| Liquid Stylus Cleaners The finer the stylus tip is, the harder it is to ’see’ with the naked eye, so I start with a magnified mirror below the stylus. Curved makeup mirrows, I have a light coming in from the side and lift/rotate the mirror to get a great view of all sur... | |
| New TT vs Cartridge/isolation upgrade Suppose you do not want to add weight on your platter, i.e. the Luxman Motor lifts the platter to reduce bearing wear. These rubber gizmos hold reels on tape recorders. They are the same diameter as the TT platter spindle You press them down, th... | |
| New TT vs Cartridge/isolation upgrade I’m a bargain hunter, I say ’inexpensive’ tools and these are them: I put this together for a friend, I hope the links are still good TOOLS FOR LP’S CARTRIDGES $15. ALIGNMENT DISC: one side: Lines for Overhang and Two NULL Points ANTI-SKAT... |