johnnantais
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| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Bob, actually, my system is a mish-mash of mostly vintage components as, like Jloveys, I tend to spend my money on the source: record players (Lencos, Garrards, Technics SP10, SP25, Sony 2250, etc.), tonearms (JMW 10.5i, RS Labs RS-A1, Rega RB-... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Gene, yes, I was about to correct that. Actually, one would suspect that increased flywheel effect of the motor should improve things. But, it may also make the motor more audible, leading to some sort of "break-up"/loss of control. So, this wo... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Jloveys, tell you the truth, until I hear it for myself, I can't say. Which is why I am commissioning two stone plinths, one of slate and one of something else. Also to realize - finally - that first dream I had of a marble Lenco back in the He... | |
| ASL Mini Phono Hi Mark, I've been traveling and hadn't noticed this post. I'd be very interested in your findings on this phono preamp. I just got an ASL AQ 2006DT full-function preamp with phono stage, and it already sounds excellent, with the usual ASL musical... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II I am going to regale the audience here with a choice bit of wisdom, from one of the world's greatest writers, Khalil Gibran: "It is easier to write upon the water, than to teach a fool anything."We'll let that stand alone up there, apart were it c... | |
| Vintage integrated Amps. What to look for? I would add the Sony pieces, vintage 1966 to 1976. These pieces have superb sound, build quality and phono stages, and were built to compete with the likes of McIntosh and Marantz. The receivers have superb tuner sections. Look especially for the ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Thanks for the welcome Michael/Oregon, and thanks for the kind words Michael/Mikeyc8.Hi M167607: my opinion here is not set in stone, but is a combination of experience (the Grados in particular seem happier on '250s, a friend uses this combo to s... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Amazing that you persist Dung Beetle, as always, very constructive as always. So do like the insect you are, and do us all a favour and disappear until spring, at least. For those who, like Dung Beetle, may not be able to read and understand, by k... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Thanks Pat, the Shindo/Devore set-up certainly highlighted the Lenco's soundstaging and imaging abilities, as well as the particular strength of the Rega/Karat Ruby excellence in instrumental separation, due to the aforementioned speed. Michael an... | |
| Benz Ruby vs Ebony To further muddy the waters, I just set up an Oracle Thalia cartridge in my system, and it is built for Oracle by Benz. It comes complete with a Benz Ebony H spec sheet, and is identical in both specs and build, with body being made of ebony. It r... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hello all, I'm now back from Greece and struggling to re-adjust to both the former lifestyle - over the previous hiking lovely mountain paths in the mountains overlooking the Aegean, swimming in said sea, and drinking with the locals late into eac... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II I'm still in Greece, the weather and company are just too fine, and last summer was, quite frankly, crappy, time to make up for it, so I keep adding weeks to my initial 3-week voyage. Staying away from Da Net as its a holiday, and also because ava... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Just a quickie, just supercharged an original Lenco tonearm to fantastic results! I used ultra-thin solid core internal wiring (the best tonearm wire methinks) soldered directly to Petra (Music Boy) interconnects (still my fave), replaced the orig... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Well, over here I am fine-tuning my new Reference System - those big Cornwalls are truly spectacular, but my neighbours will hate me ;-) - and, I've found a stone-working business which will give me a large variety of options, and I'm quite excite... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Oops, and thanks for reporting in with your corroboration Travbrow, I'm currently swamped and lots of things escape me these days!! But, I have to say quickly, that regardless of the system into which it is injected, the CJ PV-7 ALWAYS has that be... |