jdaniel18ee
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| Are some tracks impossible to track? I've followed your posts and I feel bad for you. I have almost exactly the same setup, including MuFi A308 but use a Dynavector cart, and I listen to exactly the same type of music on the same labels. As I mentioned in my last response, I tapped u... | |
| What is distortion due to? You post is very interesting. I too have a VPI Scoutmaster with Dynavector 20xL feeding into a Musical Fidelity A308. It's a great phonostage for being inboard, don't you think?I had the same problem, a light crackling echoing high soprano voice a... | |
| Digitally recorded lps? OnHwy61, I noticed you've got quite the turntable, far more expensive than my VPI Scoutmaster. You included the evergreen condescention, "spaciousness and warmth" in your description of vinyl : ), let me repeat that __ : )__ but how does one expla... | |
| Digitally recorded lps? Humorous responses you received....From one turntable owner to another, I recommend buying any clean-copy digital Lps that interest you. In my experience they've been remarkably better than their CD counterparts in areas of hall ambience, environm... | |
| Questions about SACD vs.analog for classical music The Ansermet's are among the best for imaging, IHMHO. Many of the Deccas are outrageously expensive; I seek out all the Ansermet re-prints I can find on London Treasury, esp. the early wide-grooves. They are incredible as well and go for pennies. ... | |
| Questions about SACD vs.analog for classical music Your evolution is very similar to mine: CD to SACD, (same sony unit at one time), 2chan to multi here, and finally a Scoutmaster. (How you're getting it so fast I have no idea.) I have the Dyna 20X low and couldn't be happier with the synergy. Nig... | |
| great vinyl sound cost as much as great cd sound To Markd51:OK, let me rephrase then: cleaning records is a must, if you want CD-quiet sound, (providing the Lp was well-taken care of to begin with. I've done it both ways, by hand and now by machine; doing it by hand was a pain in the..., but to ... | |
| great vinyl sound cost as much as great cd sound If I spent that much on a digital rig, I woundn't want to know that vinyl was better, lol. Seriously:Maybe I'm ignorant in the realm of high$$$ esoteric digital playback, but it took literally *seconds* to hear that vinyl was better than any digit... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? What is a digital Lp? Lps mastered from digital tapes. From about '78 to '82(?) digital tape was available, but not the CD. One could only buy digital records, with the word DIGITAL splashed proudly across the front with all sorts of technical inf... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? I've found digital recordings via Lp to be a revelation. Still not as good as the best analog, but much warmer and imaging and soundstage and textural complexity are much better than any CD or SACD player I've ever owned. Textural differentiation ... | |
| Whats under your VPI Scout / Scoutmaster? Maple buther's block seems like an inexpensive tweak I'd like to try with my Scoutmaster. The 'table is sitting on a wood bookcase--will Maple still make a difference? Wood on Wood? | |
| How much $ to "match" digital in my system? Yes, the Philadelphia is one of my favorites too, Angel or EMI got a few recordings of them with Ormandy and then Muti, from around '79 up to '85 and they are a little better than Columbia and/or RCA. You will find that digital albums are not bad ... | |
| How much $ to "match" digital in my system? First of all, I too "travelled the world over" to find a CD player that could do strings right. I now have a turntable. A turntable to match digital? Try one for $150. I'm *not* kidding!! I think the reason you didn't like the sound of the albums.... | |
| I'm Stuck, MMF9 vs. MMF7 vs. Scout vs. Space deck I have the Scoutmaster and I simply bought a piece of light cloth to drape over it, with a hole cut cut out for the arc in the anti-skate wire. Done. | |
| The effect of the Expanding Universe on turntables You're all confusing me--I'm going to have to read Hawking's "Timely History of Briefs" again. (oops--err, wrong coffee-table book.) |