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Vinyl Outselling CD
My 24 year old son has taken an active interest in vinyl, and has begun amassing his own vinyl collection of current artists. He has been sold on the sonic merits of vinyl from listening to my system and my collection of LPs, many of which we have... 
What phono preamps are balanced
How does a balanced phono input work? Don't you need sum and difference from the tonearm/cartridge with some sort of differential driver interface for each channel at each end of the cable? 
The Quietest LP Cleaning Machines
I think I'll live with the noise, given that the PRC4 is 5 times the cost of a HW-16.5-the difference will pay for a nice MC cartridge and a large stack of Classic Records reissues. Do what I do-use your headphones to listen while you are doing th... 
Do SME V's come with detchable head shell?
If you can find them, the Model 10 tonearm has the SME V magnesium tonearm tube AND a removeable headshell, although it only has the ABEC-1 bearings as on the 300 series arms. The 300/Model 10 arms acan also be upgraded with the FDIV fluid damper ... 
Bellari VP-129
I'm currently listening to my 129 with an EI 12AX7-a dramatic improvement over the no-name tube that came with it. In fact, I was about to dump the 129 until I started rolling new tubes into it-so far, I have tried just the EI 12AX7 and the JJ/Tes...