johnnyb53
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| Stylus replacement for Shure V-15 v MR For a quality MM cartridge with a MicroRidge/MicroLine stylus, currently in production with a replaceable stylus, the Audio Technica AT150MLX is pretty hard to beat. It certainly has more sophisticated innards than the Shure, and is wired with PCO... | |
| higher end jazz vinyl: where to turn? Yep. Your original post indicates that you need a way to deep clean your records. To answer the second question, I've listened to part of Analogue Productions' reissue of Nat King Cole's "After Midnight," recorded in 1955. It is one of the most st... | |
| Recommend a preamp for Denon Dl 160 I recently picked up a Jolida JD 9A phono stage to replace a Cambridge 640P. The Jolida is very adjustable, with three dual banks of DIP switches to control gain, resistance, and capacitance. It even has two different output levels. I have a Denon... | |
| need advice for budget preamp for Rega p3-24... IMO if you're going to spend less than $200 the Cambridge 640P is IT. Cleanest, fastest, quietest, and articulate without being edgy. The NAD and Parasound may sound pleasant and musical, but the 640P gives you a taste of high end inner detail, re... | |
| Tubes Through Solid State 03-23-11: Sm2727Thank-you all for your responses. I just didn't want to pay for tubes in the front end only to find that those tube qualities I am after don't survive the the solid state translation.I just replaced a SS phono stage with a tubed (J... | |
| Calculating total capacitance I just had my first small adventure in capacitance loading. I have had an Audio Technica AT150MLX for about 3 years. I always used it with a Cambridge 640P which, to my knowledge, adds no capacitance to the load. I dunno, maybe it's set at 100 pF.... | |
| Getting Into Analog-Vinyl For The First Time...... If you go Rega and you have a little wiggle room on the money, I'd sure go for the P5 over the P3/24. It would be worth the minimal extra money just to get the RB700 tonearm over the RB301. If you go mail order there are a fair number of decent ta... | |
| Affordable Japanese LOMCs--Recommendations? Well, I just replaced my entry-level Cambridge 640P with a tube-driven Jolida JD 9A phono stage. I replaced the stock Chinese 12AX7's with mil-spec NOS Sylvania Gold Tube 5751's equipped with Herbie's Teflon HAL-O tube dampers. The increased music... | |
| Affordable Japanese LOMCs--Recommendations? Thanks Mr. Viridian, that's exactly what I'm trying to find out--what are the differences in personalities of the two cartridges. The subjective descriptions of the 103R do sound pretty attractive, but I have a Technics SL1210 and currently the ef... | |
| Affordable Japanese LOMCs--Recommendations? 03-08-11: ViridianI have owned two sample of the 301 and still own a 103 and a 103D, and the choice depends totally on the effective mass of your tonearm. If it is over 11 grams 103, under 11 grams 301. How do the tonal balances and behaviors of t... | |
| Affordable Japanese LOMCs--Recommendations? 03-08-11: Buconero117These comments just prove that 'colored' sound is alive and well in audio land.Your comments prove that douchebaggery is alive and well in audio land. | |
| $20k top, full range speakers? Oooh, that's a good choice. They're sensitive and the OP has a big room to fill.Here's another possibility, and I've heard this setup:A pair of Magnepan 20.1's plus a pair of JL subwoofers.The JLs are extremely fast and musical and can keep up wit... | |
| Affordable Japanese LOMCs--Recommendations? 03-08-11: StanwalYou picked two I haven't used; what arm are you using? The 103 series like more mass than the others listed.I have a Technics SL1210M5G. The stock tonearm (with Technics headshell) has an effective mass of 12.5g, but I use an LPGe... | |
| Affordable Japanese LOMCs--Recommendations? Thanks Stan.What if I narrowed it down to the DL103R and DL301 II? Pros & cons?I have a Jolida JD 9A tubed phono stage coming in soon. It's highly configurable in resistance and gain for a wide range of cartridge matching. A little more bass i... | |
| MM cartridge comparable to a Benz L2 There is also the Grado wood-bodied series that is designed to go head-to-head with MCs.The Rega Exact is pretty good too--quick, smooth, dynamic, yet relaxed. Here's another approach: maybe you should use a step-up transformer optimized for your ... |