jdaniel13
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| Almost Time to Replace My DV-20xl Bottom line is...without good tracking ability, how can one even think about musicality when one knows there's a train wreck coming. Moreover, the AT is indeed "musical," and though not as dynamic or "sparkling" as the xx2, to say it's a great tra... | |
| Almost Time to Replace My DV-20xl Chahas1: I'm sorry, but I slaved for two years trying to get the Dyna xx 2 to track with VPI arm. If 70% success is good enough for you, fine. My dealer (of 30 years' experience ) tried multiple alignments, none of which worked. I gave you specifi... | |
| Almost Time to Replace My DV-20xl Inna: really? I'm thinking a forgiving, mega-tracking cheap cart transcends turntable quality, with some minimum standards of course. | |
| Almost Time to Replace My DV-20xl Just make sure the cart/arm "synergy" is such that it tracks well, and/or the cart is not only musical, but a good "high-velocity" tracker. I owned both the Dyna 20xl and xx 2 and neither tracked very well with the JMW arm. Admittedly, I was enamo... | |
| VPI Classic and new cartridge - which one? What was your particular problem with xx2 performance? I had one too.... | |
| Dynavector 20X H vs DV 20X M 1mv for VPI I will definitely keep that in mind, thanks. | |
| Dynavector 20X H vs DV 20X M 1mv for VPI I can actually report right now. : ) The whole kit's gone. 3 years of fiddling was enough. I'm listening through an Audio Technica 130E and im very happy. Is it as musical? No but it comes insultingly close to what I had and tracks even what the X... | |
| Dynavector 20X H vs DV 20X M 1mv for VPI I experienced high velocity mistracking more than a few times with VPI/Dyna combo on piano, opera and choral records. More so w/ 20xl and less so with xx2 In a final act of desperation I paid dealer to make house call to double check my set up. | |
| Dvorak Symphony No. 2 Classic records excellent Just to add to Kennyb's point, this Dvorak is also available as a UK Treasury too. Excellent in itself. | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital Dan, that's very interesting. I started with the Dyna 20xH and within 30 seconds (of listening to the opening of Rodrigo's Concerto) I was hooked. I must say that upgrading to the XX2 cart better fleshed-out the sound at the end of records but obv... | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital Just a general response to your responses; I wasn't comparing Vinyl with Digital, (hi-rez or otherwise), just vinyl in the first 1/3 with vinyl in the last 1/3. FWIW my "best" set up was the Scoutmaster with 9" arm and Dyna XX2 cart. Dan, your men... | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital If you can find me a turntable/cart combo that makes "O Fortuna" (of Carmina Burana) sound that same both in the opening grooves and the last grooves (the piece opens and closes with the same material), please tell me about it. Maybe a linear trac... | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital Just enjoying these astonishingly-mellow responses. All I'd add is that "the work," involved in vinyl playback seems just a touch overstated: cleaning the record, setting it on platter and dropping need takes literally a minute. With regard to the... | |
| Help setting up Airport Exposes Not to hijack the conversation, (I'm going to need an external hard drive soon as well), but with all the talk about high-end USB cables: is "beaming" the data across the room better or worse than via a cable? Fascinating to think about. | |
| Wyred 4 Sound STI-500 Breakin Time Fancy power cords, changing fuses...I must be back to Digital.... : ) Just wondering how big the difference between /96 and /192, considering it looks like most back catalogs at EMI/Decca/Chandos/Hyperion--I listen to Classical--have archived at 2... |