johnnantais
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| Living with popping and crackling Throw the baby out with the bathwater! This old argument again! Certain stylus profiles and equipment that emphasize pop and crackle (poor tonearms, bright amps, bright speakers) is the problem, and digital is not the answer, nor are filters neces... | |
| Best Sounding LPs Thanks for that 4yanx, they're on the list. Female artists, I love the genre! One female singer whose single LP is extremely interesting and fun in a pop-jazzy kind of way, but which either sounds good (really just acceptable) or muddy depending o... | |
| Best Sounding LPs Getting away from specialist and legendary pressings, try Chris Rea's "The Road to Hell"; Jennifer Warnes' "Famous Blue Raincoat"; Tracy Chapman's first album; Robbie Robertson's "Showdown at Big Sky" solo LP; Suzanne Vega's "Solitude Standing"; S... | |
| Still pondering Paradigms Perhaps you should consider a box speaker which is also a planar speaker: the Oskar heil "Air-Motion Transformer" loudspeakers, which come in a small stand-mounted box and sound incredibly musical. Read the review at http://www.soundstage.com/reve... | |
| Sony ES deck eating tapes question.. Perhaps a bigger advertising budget? I know that after 10 years all the TDK tapes I made are essentially blanks, while the Maxells continue to sound good. And there is that vexing tape-eating question. I remember now it was then that I simply swit... | |
| Sony ES deck eating tapes question.. Come to think of it, I had a car deck that ate only TDK tapes. My advice is stick to Maxell...:) | |
| Sony ES deck eating tapes question.. Have you tried simply cleaning the pinch-rollers with Q-tips and Rubber Renew? Perhaps something on the rollers is sticking to the TDK formulation, like more TDK formulation. | |
| Garrard Zero-100 speed control problem The Garrard Zero-100 is capable of excellent results when mounted in a solid plinth: I know, I've done it and lived with it, though I subsequently sold it. I'm not sure whether it it the motor spindle which is machined differently or the wheel. Th... | |
| Supex 900 Mono Cartridge I own a stereo Supex which is fabulously rich and musical, and with tremendous energy. I would venture to opine that $111 on a mono version is a killing. Congratulations. I think my NOS Supex MC901 is my favourite cartridge to date, and I've owned... | |
| eminent technology 2 setup help Have you tried the Vinyl Engine library? They have the following manual, http://members.lycos.co.uk/turningthetables/writingentriesinthediaryofasickman/hisconstantcompanionalwaysathand/et2manual.pdf. | |
| moving coil or moving magnetic input. What he said. | |
| A difficult LP reproduction question Albert, the EAR is nowhere near the Mini Phono in terms of price, and I would venture to guess it is better. The Seduction kit I know nothing about, but eventually would like to try. For fun factor, then the Mini Phono and Seduction kit have it. T... | |
| A difficult LP reproduction question Excellent site, Bornin, it's added to my vinyl file! | |
| A difficult LP reproduction question Richard, the information came from nowhere but simple physics, my own experiments and experience with my own large collection of record decks, and the almost universally-noticed phenomenon that high-mass record decks simply don't have the "boogie ... | |
| A difficult LP reproduction question Eldartford, do you know I never actually tried to play 78s on my Lencos? I stumbled on them entirely by accident one day, and that particular model being defective, I simply threw out everything which was not directly connected to the drive system... |