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| How many LPs is enough? I think it's different for every person. You mentioned you only listen to about 1 lp per day. I consider myself a moderate listener and easily listen to 3-4 a day. I bet there are plenty of people here that listen for 5-6 hours or more.Also I thin... | |
| GIRL NEWBIE OK My advice is to try and find the cheapest possible receiver with phono stage locally on craigslist, or from a local paper or vintage shop for $50 - $100 and no more. Now spend about $500 or more on the best used speakers you can get. Really - b... | |
| How do I connect two preamps at the same time? Aaron,This is pretty commonly done and many of us do this exact thing. I myself asked this question several year ago.Feed your HT preamp's surround and center channels into the resepective amps, while the main L&R channels go into one of the t... | |
| An Audiophile Goal Hi Bob,The post in which you quoted me was about low quality "bootleg recordings" made on microphones snuck into concerts.It had nothing to do with LP playback at all. The gist was that on my high end system, some bootlegs didn't sound very good, ... | |
| What beats the Evolution Acoustics MM3 ?? In the 90's I too used to only feel that panel speakers could give me what I was looking for soundwise. I had Crosby'd Quad 63's and within their limits, I always felt coming home from a Hi-fi show or audition that the Quads (or even better yet So... | |
| An Audiophile Goal Bob,I think you are focusing and obesessing about aspects of reproduction that are not going to further fidelity. In the video world we have different levels of 1hkz tone for different tape formats, be they analog or digital. No one would expect t... | |
| Raven owners - how's your mid-range? Wow - something is clearly amis.I am running the Raven One, and really considered the Copperhead heavily, but since I had a Phantom sitting in a box, I just went and kept that.I went from a Well Tempered table and arm to the Raven/Phantom and didn... | |
| Good turntables w/o record clamps This doesn't really help you since it's out of your price range at about $5K, but my Raven One table sounds best (to me) with no clamp and no mat.On my previous table, WTT - a clamp was required, so it's nice not to have to use one- even though my... | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? I think owning excellent tube gear is one of the secrets to staying off the upgrade path.Maybe I should post a poll and see how oftentube people vs. SS people change gear.I had my previous tube amp for like 17 years (though Idid try a solid state ... | |
| Diamond Cones I was supposed to hear the Polymer's when I was in Fla. over thanksgiving, but the manufacturers demo system was on loan for a review so I didn't get to hear it, which was very dissapointing for me. I have talked to several owners who basically sa... | |
| What made you select "audio" as your hobby Goldenage- I parted with my quads because the panels kept arcing, and I didn't feel like eventually replacing ALL of them at over $500 per panel. I ended up going from the spectral gear (which I still have to sell) to Atma-sphere MA-1's and liked ... | |
| What made you select "audio" as your hobby Let's be honest. There is a massive difference between regular music lovers/record collectors and what we do. I have friends that are even way more into music than I am, (constantly reading reviews to hear new artists, and seeing them live), but t... | |
| Hansen Emperor or MBL 101E or Avalon Isis Audiokinesis,thanks for your insight into the omnis like the MBL. I was really dying to buy MBL's as I love the sound, but being in a small apartment where the speakers have to sit no more than 24" from the back wall, I had my doubts.You confirmed... | |
| Confusion about "high-end" racks Sistrum has some new products coming out soon that sound better than even thier current racks. I am in the mechanical grounding school, unless you have springy wood floors. I dont have any thier full equipmemt racks, just speaker stands and a thei... | |
| Stereophile Article - Holt telling it like it is. Just some of my random thoughts on the subject- If reproduction was nothing more than an exact science, there would only be a need for probably 5 audio companies making only different price points.Optical lens manufacturers (which require science ... |