johnnyb53
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| Phono Input or new Phono preamp? 02-07-11: MordanteI would advise you to stay away from MC carts. Your phono amp was made for MM or MI carts. So before you buy anything take a look at Grado, Clearaudio and Soundsmith MM/MI carts.Also Goldring, Audio Technica, and Ortofon 2M Black... | |
| How can anyone afford this ? Well I was talking about trickle-down *technology*, not economic policy. Marantz's first customer was a near Eastern sheik; hardly anyone else could afford hand-built cost-no-object high end components. Sequerra's Model 1 Tuner was $2500 in 1975 (... | |
| How can anyone afford this ? The OP's symptoms sound much more like a raging neurosis than a mere hobby. If at some point you can't settle down and enjoy the music your rig is capable of, there is something else wrong. It could be emotional or it could be a system matching is... | |
| How can anyone afford this ? It's trickle down, baby. The cost-no-object designs bought through high prices paid by rich early adopters pays for the R&D and proof of concept that results in advancements in the state of the art that benefit us all. Without $150,000 turntab... | |
| Phono Input or new Phono preamp? It doesn't cost anything to start with the built-in phono of the MF integrated amp. Musical Fidelity has had a long appreciation for and relationship with vinyl playback. If it turns out that the phono stage is as good as I think it'll be, then fo... | |
| Considering analog...but nervous 02-01-11: Fatgh0stMorgenholz: And this VERY fact is precisely what I've become excited about the most throughout this past week. It started out as a quest to get new sound, but evolved into the quest for new sound AND forging a new, better relatio... | |
| Short piece of spk wire sustitute for spk link? Try the ribbon jumpersfrom Mapleshade. Unbelievable boost in speed, clarity, and resolution at $25. I use the ones with the PLUS upgrade for a mere $35/pair. | |
| Advice on restarting vinyl playback after 30 years 02-01-11: Desalvo55How about this setup.The PS Audio GCPH modded by UnderwoodHiFi and on sale for $1295 new and with warranty. Very highly regarded with mods. No additional preamp needed....Here's a review of the GCPH with the Underwood mod. | |
| Advice on restarting vinyl playback after 30 years 02-01-11: Desalvo55... Is the PS Audio GCPH a well regarded phono stage? From reviews and owner comments I get the impression that the GCPH is *the* premier $1K phono pre overachiever. PS Audio's GainCell technology also gives it the advantage for... | |
| Advice on restarting vinyl playback after 30 years 01-31-11: Desalvo55JDaniel,Just looked up the cost of that XX2. I feel your pain and hope it's not mine too.You can get very close to the $2K sound by tapping into Audio Technica's and Denon's abilities to combine high precision with economy of sc... | |
| Considering analog...but nervous Your description of the second audition sounds like the symptoms typical of an overdamped room. Having a dozen other loudspeakers in the room, especially a small one, would act like tonesuckers, absorbing the low level detail that made the first p... | |
| AV123 LS6 Line Source up and running Congratulations on taking delivery on an excellent speaker. Consider yourself lucky that you actually took delivery. Soon thereafter customers were sending in full payment for the new line arrays (and other products as well) as Schifter/AV123 went... | |
| Considering analog...but nervous Well-said, Raquel. For all the dire warnings in threads like this, as though several blocks of your city will explode if your cartridge alignment is off by a nanometer, let's remember that LPs have been the quality consumer musical medium of choic... | |
| Considering analog...but nervous 01-26-11: Raquel... I'm listening to a performance of Liszt's 1st Piano Concerto on a Musical Heritage Society LP that I picked up at Tower's used classical bins many years ago that I doubt I paid a buck for, and it's sublime.MHS editions have pre... | |
| Considering analog...but nervous 01-25-11: Fatgh0stMaineiac: You may be getting closer already :-) I've already started thinking about how I can edge my initial budget up closer to $2,500 by getting rid of something else.So tell me, what does an extra $1,000 (from $1,500 to $2,50... |