folkfreak
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| Any advice on buying quality vinyl How are you able to determine what is an original pressing?thats what Discogs is for, and also the vast majority of sellers there are reliable and of course you get full pricing data. Even if buying from other sources you should use it to check pr... | |
| Audio Research Ref 5 SE ting noise I experienced exactly the same behavior with my ARC Ref 40. New tubes, old tubes, dampers including Herbies or not, it’s just endemic to the design so don’t worry about it | |
| the Garrard 301 plater is concaved. Most platters are slightly concave. Leveling them is easy as long as you align the level on a tangent to the outside edge. Of course you should be using a nice long level anyways! | |
| New Rega Planer 8 (P8) Turntable - Apheta 2 Cartridge Combo - Thoughts @fsmithjack so thinking some more about your situation I think you can go a couple (or three ways)Path I -- go all out for an "analog" as possible representation of state of the art LP playback. This would match the Verdier with the Schick and add... | |
| Attenuator & Transformer for Moving Coil cartridge I'm not sure a 1:15 would be that much of a problem -- the XLPS-V3 appears to have plenty of overload margin -- provided your preamp is comfortable with the level presented it may workA more problematic issue may be load matching from cartridge to... | |
| AR-VT-200 vs Vtl MB-450 One other consideration -- VTL will insist you use their tubes. A full set for a MB-450 II or III will cost you north of $1600. Using any one else's tubes you will run into maintenance issues with them (I'm not saying they won't work, just that VT... | |
| AR-VT-200 vs Vtl MB-450 By the way do not buy gen 1 450s. They are obsolete and you will encounter maintenance issues. 450ii from a dealer can be brought up to iii but it’s costly (albeit worthwhile). I own the iiis upgraded from ii and they have given years of sterling ... | |
| AR-VT-200 vs Vtl MB-450 VTL service is first rate if you buy from an authorized dealer. If you are buying used in the open market you may encounter problems. The 450s are very friendly. That is they fail nicely simply blowing a fuse if a tube goes bad. Check the archives... | |
| Need help solving a system problem This is acoustic feedback. Just because the frequency is too low for you to hear doesn’t make it not feedback. The trigger could be your footfalls or environmental sounds but that can be enough to set it off.The simple solution is a rumble filter ... | |
| Is it true that a digital cable has to acclimate to your system? My experience with many many AES/EBU cables is just like @spatialking -- first impressions are usually directionally correct, improvement is steady after that but usually does not change the fundamental character of a cable -- and it is certainly ... | |
| Benefits of adding a 10MHz Master Clock to a digital system Thanks for the post @jacksonkuo unfortunately I don’t think either of us have made this comparison. However since creating this thread I have become aware of the Abendrot Stute clock which certainly provides an upgrade for those for whom cost is t... | |
| why a high end phono preamp? Are all stand alone phono preamps both MC and MM?There is a school of thought that designing a lower gain MM only phono stage is optimal and using transformers to deal with the additional gain of an MC cartridge. Given the diversity in characteris... | |
| FM vs. HD RADIO.... anybody think FM is better? HD radio is often low bit rate digital so depending on how many channels the station is running it often may perform worse than FM. Good FM with a un corrupted signal (like a live concert feed for example) can sound great, pity there so little of ... | |
| Cartridge Mounting Hardware My experience is that in my setup choice and use of bolts is a fairly important factor. Acoustical Systems who make my cart (Palladian) recently switched from stainless steel to Timet 1100 screws and the audible effect of this change was not subtl... | |
| Simple and Effective Upgrade for Wall Wart Power Supplies While it may seem off that inserting an extra length of wire improves things I suspect a plausible explanation may be that the extender improves the quality of the connection between wall wart and socket. Wall warts are often heavy and pull down o... |