jasonbourne71
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| Building a 100 album vinyl collection 3 must have albums are? Weather Report I Sing the Body Electric The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic | |
| Who to trust when buying vintage ss ? For some excellent box speakers I suggest old ADS's like the 410, 510, 710 and up! They are easy to drive and fairly efficient. | |
| Audio Research LS25 MKII Problem That was a common problem of the muting activating going back to the SP6. I don't know if ARC came up with a fix for this? A shame if their later preamps suffer from this! | |
| Who to trust when buying vintage ss ? Older NAD integrated amps from the 90's are an easy recommendation. They are fairly reliable and able to drive 2 ohms - something which the other amps from that era can't do - and sound superb! I have one in my collection, along with its cousin th... | |
| SR or SR top tier Clever marketing at work here! | |
| Bad news for home theater enthusiasts I recently bought on eBay a nice Samsung HD841 DVD/CD/SACD for $26. Plenty of choices on the used market! | |
| Bad news for home theater enthusiasts There are still millions of DVD's available so that supply ain't gonna run out any time soon! | |
| MM Cartridge to MC Cartridge The OP can consider the Grado moving-iron cartridges. The new Prestige series starting at $79 and up is worth checking out! | |
| MM Cartridge to MC Cartridge @mijostyn : I disagree that one must spend thousands for a good sounding mc cartridge! The venerable DL103 wouldn't have held its esteemed status among audiophiles if it didn't sound good! Of course the higher-priced Denon MC's offer a more refine... | |
| MM Cartridge to MC Cartridge @williewonka : you are right about matching the cartridge compliance with the arm mass. Low compliance needs a heavier arm. High compliance needs a lighter arm. This relates to the resonance frequency of the arm/cartridge combination - ideally bel... | |
| MM Cartridge to MC Cartridge An easy recommendation is the Hana SL mc ($750). This has the Shibata stylus for superior detail retrieval. It is my choice for an mc cartridge under $1K. After that the skies the limit! | |
| Miyajima preamps EC-5 WO-1 A rare beast indeed since nobody has posted a review in eight years! | |
| Any High End Tube Preamps with *gasp tone controls? My ARC SP6 has tone controls - but I never use them. I long ago was converted to listening to the recording (LP's) naked. I'm willing to accept whatever the mastering engineer did to the tape to get it to fit on two 20+ minute sides! Of course we ... | |
| Upgrading Power Supply for Lumin U2 mini from switching to Linear Power Supply The Oppo universal players that so many golden ears' here raved about have switching power supplies. | |
| Upgrading Power Supply for Lumin U2 mini from switching to Linear Power Supply Waste of time and money! Today's switching power supplies have significantly less noise and ripple - even the cheap ones! This can easily be verified by measurements. Any claimed sonic improvement for linear supplies is imaginary. |