jloveys
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| What do defective phono tubes sound like? Static discharge ! Thanks for your intervention, Atmasphere. I grounded the turntable to arm, separated the phonopreamp from turntable,check tonearm grounding and no more "pops". It wasn't the fridge! Are those static discharges harmful to cartrid... | |
| What do defective phono tubes sound like? Another possible source is the unshieled proximal part of the tonearm cable, Purist Venustas in my case, hooked to Graham Phantom, being too close to phonostage and picking ground loops and discharging loud pops. When I separate the tonearmcable f... | |
| What do defective phono tubes sound like? Dear Sirseedy, very strange you post this problem now, because I have the SAME problem occuring recently, and we have quite similar systems ! I am also on the diagnosis pathway, and I never thought of a tube problem . I swappedrecently the 12AX7A ... | |
| Mono Cartridge, is it worth the investment? Slowhand, if you have a VPI tonearm system it is even easier to swap armwands,all the settings are done only one time, so it takes 30 seconds to swap arms ! | |
| Mono Cartridge, is it worth the investment? I am using the Graham phantom with one arm stereo Jan allaerts Finish and another with Lyra Helikon Mono cartridge. Swapping arms takes me 3 minutes.Sound benefit with the mono cartridge is huge with records pressed before1960. On recent reissues ... | |
| Looking for an acoustic guitar recording.. Immortal NICK DRAKE / Pink moon ...fabulous sound and lyrics... | |
| Speaker cabinet materials. the website is waterfallaudio.com. You can see all reviews. Launch in US in may. | |
| Speaker cabinet materials. Pedrillo, Waterfall Victoria Evo is a speaker made of glass, looks terrific and has rave reviews in French Stereo magazine. | |
| What is the BEST phono stage No need to spend so much to have it . Go to this site: gspaudio.co.uk and click the banner "all about the phonopreamp". Have the patience to read the whole article, you will reach analog nirvana with an objectve professional advise. Good luck ! | |
| martin logan vs magnepan sound What about ML WITH Magnepan? This is the experiment I try for the moment.I have a pair of ML Ascent i since 3 years and two pairs of MG MC1 i was using for my defunct surround system. I fixed one MG one each side of each ML, hooked speaker cables ... | |
| Blue Note 45rpm reissue Dear Rushton, I certainly don't want to argue about the fact that this reissue is better or not than the old ones. I just give my personal impressions and I certainly wish succes to Music Matters because they certainly do a nice job.I was just giv... | |
| Blue Note 45rpm reissue I must add that the whole thing about this hobby is EMOTION. The way music makes you cry sometimes. Easier in a jazz club with live musicians than on your sofa. If the recording is too accurate and dry , all the emotional impact is vanishing. I th... | |
| Blue Note 45rpm reissue I do respect the mastering work of mr. Hoffman and Gray, but the recording engineer who initialy mastered the tapes is Rudy Van Gelder who had the advantage to be in direct contact with the musicians and the sound we hear on the original records o... | |
| Blue Note 45rpm reissue Here is another point of view. I am very used to the Blue Note sound , beeingcollector of original pressings , mono and stereo. Reading about the rave around those 45 RPM reissues, I bought Horace Parlan "Speakin my piece" and compared with the mo... | |
| Suspended vs. non suspended turntable Removing the four air ball suspentions of the VPI TNT and coupling the turntable with a symposium Ultra Platform via three sets of rollerblocks Jr.and couplers takes the TNT to a much superior level of performance. |