johnnantais
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| Need help picking budget Turntable Like the song goes, "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing." If you find your toes tapping, then your 'table's got timing. As to wiring, I do my own using extremely thin solid core, mixed in with a favourite cheapy cable I find better b... | |
| Best MC for a Linn/Syrinx Your Roksan is one of the few truly musical high-end decks out there, it'll be interesting to see what you make of your classic Linn combo. I'll check this thread if you do report on it. Meanwhile, I'll be setting up my own Scottish deck, an Arist... | |
| Need help picking budget Turntable Colitas, glad to hear you are getting the bass you've been looking for. As to the Sota, it is a beautiful 'table and extremely well engineered. How does it sound? Is it good at rhythm? I ask as I do collect record-players when funds allow and I ma... | |
| Need help picking budget Turntable Colitis, when you compare different tonearm counterweights on your tonearm in controlled conditions - making sure the wiring is the same, the 'table is the same and so on - you are conducting an empirical/scientific experiment. This is what the au... | |
| Decca cartridge experiences I too have a Connoisseur for the Collection (mine is a limited-edition chrome jobby ), but man do those things rock: they make all cartridges sound like Deccas! Beware, plugging this in might make your high-end rig sound wimpy. I'm telling you, so... | |
| Kiseki Blue..... I own one which still works very well, and I track it at about 1.9 grams. A little less or a little more will depend on the cartridge's interaction with the tonearm. But this cartridge has worked well with every tonearm I've tried it on: very frie... | |
| Decca cartridge experiences Frogman, Now I remember a similar experience with a three-pin Decca which belonged to a friend. At first it sounded fine, in fact quieter than mine. But it suddenly developed this loud buzzing which I couldn't get rid of. Since it didn't belong to... | |
| Tube Intergrated,Which One?Must be very Liquid I'm an ASL fan. I heard a Tulip 3.5 watt-per-channel on a pair of Oskar Heil "air-motion transformer" loudspeakers, and the sound stopped me in my tracks and forced me to listen for an hour. This happens about once every 5 years to me in high-end ... | |
| Decca cartridge experiences Damn those Deccas! In my Mayware one of the tonearm wires is contacting the walls of the tonearm inside, giving the occasional loud buzz as the tonearm travels across the record, and so I must re-wire. If you have another tonearm, connect the Decc... | |
| Best MC for a Linn/Syrinx Oh, and of course, you're right, the Dynavectors, the Diamond (17D) and Ruby (23RS). | |
| Decca cartridge experiences Interesting you should bring up the issue of hum, which I conquered just last night! The Decca tracked quite well in a Mayware I had mounted on an AR-XA, and given it is a Decca, even in this modest 'table it matched or beat my two "high-end" spin... | |
| What is a decent preamp for my Planar3 Do you mean phono preamp or full-feature preamp. If it's a phono preamp you need, then why not Rega's own Fono? And if you need a line preamp, Antique Sound Labs make quite a variety, and the $200 Mini Phono for that tube deliciousness. Alternativ... | |
| Need help picking budget Turntable Colitis, thanks for the info. While I reserve the right to search your bags...uh, that is, withhold judgement, I do believe that with all these accolades for the Kerry mod I will buy one of these. As to the two-bearing hypothesis, there is some ki... | |
| Best MC for a Linn/Syrinx If you want to keep it classic, NOS Supexes still surface now and then, as well as FRs. And I've seen a couple of Grace F9E Rubys for sale on this website. I have a lot of experience putting together old classics, and they do like to stay together... | |
| Need help picking budget Turntable Listener57, I'm nervous, but I'm getting over it thanks to my mat-less Maplenoll! Thanks for the info, I'll check into the site. Oh, uhhh...and I vote for the P3....again. Of course, I hear those old RCA Victrolas were pretty good, and the needles... |