elliottbnewcombjr
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| Turntable? Arm or cartridge? Stylus shape and cartridge construction more important than any decent table or arm IMO. Understanding arm cartridge compliance compatibility and avoiding detrimental resonance is important, but more leeway than you think. Setup, alignment, basic ... | |
| Do you, or did you, have Audiophile buddies that you shared music, gear, times with? I am lucky to have 3 nearby audiophile friends: one in town, prior frequent visits here/there; two others, both 1 hr away, occasional visits until very limited visits with masks. Luckily met Bill here, 1 hr away.Discussions, advice, shared experie... | |
| Audio Technica AT33PTG/II MC Cartridge, anyone have it or heard it? Just to complete this thread, I prefered the AT440ml to the Shure upstairs on the Vertical Mitsubishi LT-5V (no dust issue in my office like downstairs) I realized, downstairs, cleaning/testing LP's for sale on eBay, I was putting wear on the fix... | |
| CAYIN A-100t INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER Did you take the bottom off and look around? My A88T is extremely spacious, high quality parts, apparently logical, all flow of connections very easy to follow.Many times, a blown resistor is easy to ascertain, they are color coded, marked, other ... | |
| Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes in the beginning, these spring to mindRolling Stones, 1st and all till Goat's head soupBeatles Rubber Soul on (too simpy up till then)Moody Blues, original band, Mike Pinder, piano based blues, before Justin HaywordAnimals, Awesome music and Eric ... | |
| What's the best and/or favorite piece of equipment you've owned? And do you still own it? Fisher 500C Vintage Tube Receiver. Two on the shelf.Anytime I need to change, sell, fix tuner, preamp or amp, this baby comes out of retirement, keeps the system truly enjoyable until ____ is back in town.Pair of Vintage Fisher 80Z mono tube amps,... | |
| Tube preamp now they call these integrated ampshttps://www.ebay.com/itm/McIntosh-MA230-Tube-30Wx2-Amplifier-Preamp-Mint/324400785086?hash=item4b87c...their version of Fisher 500C, except Fisher has tuner. I have 2 of these, and had an 800c, same but also has ... | |
| Tube preamp I would try some KT88's instead of 6550's in that amp first. Then move on to tube preamp. I changed my Cayin A88T from 6550 to kt88, prefer the kt88's.a vintage tube preamp appealed to me more than something newMcIntosh mx110z tube tuner/preamp. t... | |
| What is your favorite SUT and MM phono stage combination? I just upgraded my TT, see it last photo herehttps://www.ebay.com/itm/133593846964after lots of help here and research, I got my 1st MC, Vintage SUT into Vintage Tube Preamp into tube amp, so 'favorite' is 'first and only', but I highly recommend ... | |
| Advice Regarding Reel-to-Reel no need to scare anyone. that esoteric muddy waters is nowhere normal, and not needed to get into R2R, it’s more for collectors with deep pockets, hop about ebay, find something 7-1/2" per sec ’returns allowed’, you will be amazedhttps://www.ebay.... | |
| Advice Regarding Reel-to-Reel R2R is the best source I have, when I play the same content, CD, then LP, people pick the LP. Next R2R. EVERYBODY ALWAYS picks R2R over LP. Forget specs, they sound amazing. I advise going directly to a more advanced model rather than starting w... | |
| Has "politically correct" killed the used audio market? This under-used beauty also includes, at no extra cost 'HDC'.HDC: Hidden Defect Challenge | |
| Do chinese tube preamp/amp clones interest you? The cheap shitttttt is exactly that, you get what you pay for, here or China. I tried something inexpensive sold on amazon, to use in my shop, really just to find out, wondering: Their low labor cost, their lack of mark-up, volume purchasing, perh... | |
| Top linear trackers 3 generally recognized null point variationshttp://www.dvautier.com/nullpoint/null.htmfavor your inner grooves Stevenson reduces distortion by favoring the inner groves which may be more compact and more in need of good alignment. | |
| Top linear trackers I lucked into a Mitsubishi Vertical Linear Tracking TT, LT-5V, love it, sounds great. This one listed here is a beauty, original box ... looks perfect, both oem headshell and new one with cartridge https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisa6c4e-mitsub... |