fsonicsmith
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| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 I bought my Garrard 301 from Greg. Greg says he found it at an estate sale in essentially NOS condition-as if it had barely been used if ever. He cleaned it up and installed an AudioSilente idler and an SMD Acoustics main brass bearing from Peak H... | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 Just curious Kanchi-did you look at my system on my profile page and particularly my Garrard 301? If you prefer noromance’s, my feelings will not be hurt but....The idler wheel is rubber on steel. http://www.audiosilente.com/garrard-401-idler-whee... | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 Kanchi;First, to respond to your response to Chakster, I have a 12" Cocobolo Reed 3P on my Thorens TD124. It is not a high mass arm. Reed markets the different woods as having different masses and there is both an element of truth and an element o... | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 I have gone down this route. I have a restored Thorens TD124 and Garrard 301 rimless grease bearing. First, I echo Millercarbon and Chakster, though I lack the experience Chakster has with a wide range of arms. I have two Reed 3P's. There is nothi... | |
| Can you tell me why I didn't like the Reference 3a MM's? I saw you only had 13 posts and I was impressed by your humble photo/avatar and figured I would try to help you out. You have a lot of very nice gear for that environment. With that, I'm out :-) | |
| Can you tell me why I didn't like the Reference 3a MM's? As already noted, an efficient lively standmount is something of a contradiction in terms. There are ways to get around your gain problem too. This comment has me scratching my head; I really need to stick with Bookshelf, as my "listening room" i... | |
| Can you tell me why I didn't like the Reference 3a MM's? Erik, it would have been easy, perhaps, for you to interpret my comments to mean that in my opinion source and electronics have a greater influence on sound character than loudspeakers, but I never said that. I only said they are ultimately more i... | |
| Can you tell me why I didn't like the Reference 3a MM's? OK, who am I to give advice when I picked out my preamp and amp before choosing my loudspeakers?Here is the conundrum. Many of us (myself included) believe that source and electronics and cabling are more important than choice of loudspeakers. Thi... | |
| Stereophile, Pass Integrated and personal taste My criticism of Pass stuff is that NP is quite open to the idea of designing complete series of amps to have a certain "flavor" and then offering a range of flavors to the consumer. I don't recall if it was in that review or somewhere else but I r... | |
| Schiit Freya S or Freya +? My Freya S arrived today. I am VERY impressed! It is in my basement workout room and signal is from a Classe CDP.5 cd player via Black Cat IC's into the Freya into a fully SMcAudio modded McCormack DNA.5 amp and then into circa 1977 Large Advents ... | |
| Audio Research Ref 6 SE Ha! I was actually referencing the shot of the interior circuit layout which you need to scroll to view. But then again, it too is likely just a holdover of the previous Ref 6 photos. Wouldn't it be nice if ARC were more transparent about what you... | |
| Audio Research Ref 6 SE The question I would like an answer to is; just who is designing the circuits and "improvements" now that Ward Fiebiger died in 2017? I suspect that McIntosh Group fka Fine Sounds SPA is simply playing "design by committee" with a group of far les... | |
| Schiit Aegir Well, I can't directly answer your question but I can say that after ordering a Freya S and two Aegirs two weeks ago mostly for grins (they would be used in my work-out room and not my main listening room), I just cancelled my order. The reason; t... | |
| Audio Research Ref 6 SE Frankly, I am pleasantly surprised. My take (rightly or wrongly) is that Mr. Wasserman must sell a lot of ARC gear such that the folks at ARC could not say "no". I love my Ref 6 and Ref 150SE combination. I paid full boat for each three years ago.... | |
| Is the Manley Steelhead still relevant? I've owned mine for five years and I love it. Each time I have improved some aspect of my turntables I have discovered just how good the Steelhead is. Changing from VPI decks to hot-rodded NOS vintage decks with Reed 3P arms. Ven den Hul Crimson C... |