johnnyb53
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| When will we ever hear turntables demoed fairly? Still, we should be able to compare a few table/arm/cartridge set-ups with the same amp/speakers and comparable if not necessarily the same phono stages.That still renders the results misleading. System matching is the crucial element in getting c... | |
| When will we ever hear turntables demoed fairly? Reviews are essentially nonsense,hyperbolic drivel that is designed to really do one thing.Keep the hamster on the wheel(that's you).If technical data were the sole criteria we wouldn't have this highly variable mess of designs.But it's not becaus... | |
| Durand record weight ha ha ha ha - and other crazy thing Some live concerts aren't available at any price, such as The Beatles, Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Vladimar Horowitz, Jascha Heifetz, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, orchestras conducted by Leonard Bernstein and Leopold Stokowski, etc. | |
| Marantz TT15S1 Turntable. Any opinions 1500.00 Budget. Recommendations i guess you have a problem with the looks of the Gem Dandy. As for staying in budget, however, the Absolute Sound reviewed it with a Shelter 201 cartridge. These retail in the US for $310, but can be had from Japan-based vendors on eBay for $167 (... | |
| Nagaoka MP-500 cartridge Maxson: Thanks for the info. How did you know the SAS-1 would fit the Shelter 201? I have an AT150MLX, which comes standard with the boron cantilever (like many Nagaokas) but the AT150ANV has a sapphire cantilever like the SAS-1. The boron replace... | |
| Nagaoka MP-500 cartridge Maxson: In terms of MMs, my current fave is a Shelter 201 w/SAS stylus. Signet TKLca is a top performer as well. I'd put the Nagaoka on a tier below that, along with the AT-50ANV.Is that SAS stylus still available for the 201? Which stylus is it--... | |
| Which cartridge should I upgrade to now? Garrott Brothers retipping service has been owned and operated since 1992 by Audio Dynamics in Melbourne, AU. You can also facilitate a Garrison retip through Decibel Hi-Fi. The linked page includes their retipping rates, which are well within you... | |
| The ever lasting diamond stylus...is it a myth or?? One side of one average album is ~one mile distance.According to the Wikipedia article about the LP record, The average LP has about 1,500 feet (460 m or about a third of a mile) of groove on each side. So both sides of a record combine to make ab... | |
| What is Technics thinking? Also, as noted, I don't believe the standard SL headshell is a P-mount. At least the one I saw at THE Show Newport in the Technics room had a standard 1/2" universal headshell.No one on this thread said that the standard Technics SL12x0 series he... | |
| What is Technics thinking? While the SL does allow limited azimuth adjustment, spinning the P-mount head shell is a time consuming hit or miss affair.I think you mean 1/2" universal headshell. P-mount is a non-adjustable plug-in with no lead wires to attach. The Jelco HS-20... | |
| Do we really need anything more than 8" woofer and 1" tweeter for medium size room? I have a pair of 6-1/2" 2-ways that fully energize a room, have excellent power response (uniform frequency response curve throughout the room), are linear to 29 Hz and audible to 26 Hz. However, they’re no mini-monitors. They’re bipolars, with 6-... | |
| JBL L300 - true myth? JBL L300 is Nelson Pass’s all time favorite speakers, he says. It must be really good. I would like to hear it.And yet he designed an alternate crossover for it. The murky sounds and poor in-room power response I heard out of stock L300s probably... | |
| Help Picking a turntable gasherbaum (the OP) wrote:...I didn’t realize that different cartridges have different gain levels and some cartridges won’t work well with some phono stages. Yikes, I am a definite novice :)!!! In addition to the Boulder phono stage at $13,000, R... | |
| Top 5 favorite MM cartridges currently available I just got a Shelter 201 a few days ago. I’m still listening and breaking it in. At US list of $310 it’s an OK deal, but when you get it from a Japanese dealer on eBay at $167, it’s a no-brainer. It’s a rather vivid cartridge, very dynamic (it can... | |
| Need Feet/Spikes for Mirage OMD-15 Yes, 1/4-20 is Mirage's thread diameter and pitch. You should be able to find aftermarket spikes or cones in that thread size, such as at Oregondv, which also sells the Soundocity outriggers if you really want some stability out of these narrow fo... |