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Bad vinyl
i have the same experience and frustration... recently back into analog and bought a lot of records ... from all the major vendors - soundstage direct, elusive, musicdirect, etc. i would say 1 of 3 titles is defective... skips, big pops, warps, di... 
DIY phono loading plugs question
omg i did not realize he was trying to do that to a 47k ohm mm phono section - LOLwell, never mind..... :) 
DIY phono loading plugs question
http://daveyw.edsstuff.org/vinyl/loading/this info is for mm carts but the principles are the same and the math is the same 
AudioTechnica ART 9 users - break in, VTF/VTA and loading questions
just getting around to trying the zyx r100h against the art 09... finally felt i had the art 09 sufficiently broken in to understand what it does, under varying VTA, loading and step up conditions.... now mounting the r100h and will run that a whi... 
Best Ratios for a Newly Constructed Listening Room
when i built my house and my music room i researched this... the dimensions are as you would prefer, depending on your use for 2 channel or more, HT or just audio etc etcmain takeaway is the avoid square dimensions and any dimension that is a clea... 
Classic 3 VPI
lenmc - u need to check ur rega table pulley - does it have grooves for more than one belt? on the vpi classic 3 the pulleys have grooves for 3 belts 
Classic 3 VPI
two belts sure helps, as mentioned above 
Cartridge repair; re-tipping; canitlever replacement: The Needle Clinic A++
in determining if an stylus or cantilever needs refurbishment, should the ultimate arbiter be the sound the cartridge makes?  just curious 
Harbeth Love and your experiences
chazro - with spendors (esp. s100/sp100) there is a lovely deep rolling bass that is wonderful on one hand, but with some music with ’snap’ the woofer response seems somewhat slow to me... despite these being not inefficient speakers, i find for a... 
Harbeth Love and your experiences
had harbeths (40.1 and HL7 supers) and spendors (sp1/2 and SP100s), but i keep coming back to ProAcs (D1.5 and now D30R’s) and my never-ever sell-them Quad ESL 63s... I think I like a slightly sympathetic, ’boosted sound’ in key frequency ranges l... 
Phono cable recommendations - high performance good value cable
thanks to pani and otherspani - very much appreciate your AT ART 9 thread... it lead me to this wonderful wonderful cartridgeall inputs are valued... much to try next few months... reasonably priced cabling makes trial and error much more affordab... 
2nd pivot for VPI 3D
op-- haha, well my late night typing not so good, apologies for thati simply meant the weisfield "CLAN" upgrade train ... no intention to imply 'scam' of any sort - i am quite sure that most if not all past, present and future upgrades are quite l... 
AudioTechnica ART 9 users - break in, VTF/VTA and loading questions
thanks avanti i am experimenting with gain also, using my ayre p5xe at various settings and also a rega aria i just acquired ... also trying a cinemag 1131 xformer into MM stagewhat a sweet and transparent sounding unit the art 9 is... hard to ima... 
2nd pivot for VPI 3D
the weisfield scan upgrade train just keeps rollin' on down the track... LOL 
MC Cartridge Recco's
agree very much with the recommendations above by raulother solid choices would be AT ART9 or a used Benz MC in your price range+1 also to double check your phono gain - make sure you have enough for .3 or .4 mv ...some MC stages do not... that wo...