ghdprentice
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| What is turntable “liveliness”. Yes. Turntables matter enormously as does the arm and cartridge. I am very aware of that as are most of responders. I have heard many turntables from $1K to at least $75K. | |
| Moving Up from a Jolida JD9 I walk a couple miles in the forest with my dogs, ride my bike at least five or six miles. So, getting up is simply hard and uncomfortable for me. Having said that, when I play an album… a couple times a week, I like the ritual. My 2,000 album... | |
| First Tube amp suggestions I just want to say after being an audiophile for over fifty years. The thing that increased my enjoyment of audio more than anything was moving to tube amplification. The enjoyment level is simply so much higher it is incredible. I no longer sit a... | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights Thanks for reporting back. I think you correctly assessed the info… light weight clamp. I know my TT would not do well with a heavy… perhaps even a light weight. | |
| New finds In Record Collection Certainly good advice. I happily did a lot of that kind of purchasing for my 2,000 album collection so it is surprisingly easy to find albums I haven’t heard in a couple decades. | |
| Do I REALLY need preamp and what do I upgrade the amp too? Typically running a DAC right into an amp will give you great clarity but be drained of the soul… the musicality. As many of us experienced audiophile say the preamp is the heart of the system, where the magic comes from. High quality sound can be... | |
| Class A integrated amp recommendations I mentioned I got the list from an AI and it was unverified. | |
| what preamp goes best with mccormack dna 500, follow up.... If you are seriously thinking of changing speakers I would do that first, then adjust your components to optimize the sound quality for the speakers. Then do cables and powercords. | |
| Duelund speaker cable gauge for my system? What is your system? Sounds like this is a component problem more than a wire problem. There is a place to show your system under your profile. It is really helpful for us to be able to help you, to see the whole picture. | |
| Building a 100 album vinyl collection 3 must have albums are? He may have forgotten. I rediscovered one of my favorite albums after 45 years by accident. Beatles: Rubber Soul… which is really well recorded as well… the reissue. Miles Davis: Kind of Blue The Who: Tommy | |
| Superconducting speakers, are they on the way? Would you be first? Generation one of any new tech is not likely to exceed in overall performance of, for instance the speakers I have which have fifty years of refinement in them from the same company. Any one else here try Windows 1.0… omg. I couldn’t get it to... | |
| Moving Up from a Jolida JD9 OP, Understood. I get the difficulty in parting with the LPs. You can see my wall of albums under my UserID, also started in the ‘60s. The sad thing is I seldom play them although I have a top notch TT and Phonostage. My audio dealer has instruct... | |
| All ARC vs All Pass Labs vs All CJ system compare @johnread57 +1 My Audio Research Reference CD9SE CD / DAC is the best I have heard and I have heard much more expensive. | |
| Listening skills increase with low light? Seeing skills diminishing in low light is a fact of life with old age. | |
| Audio Research LS25 MKII Problem 😊👍 |