johnnyb53
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| New amp or new cd player? I see the interconnects as your first weak link. You should do some swapping and breaking in. Those IC's could be choking the sound before your McIntosh even gets ahold of the signal. Try some Kimber Heroes or something from Transparent that's abo... | |
| New integrated for Totem Onkyo A-9555. Competitive with the British integrateds. Warm, low noise floor, great low level detail combined with inner clarity, great speed and instantaneous high current delivery. Sounds like a budget Asian amp for the first 100 hours and then... | |
| Low cost Amp? An Amber Series 70 if you're OK with 70 wpc. Any number of Parasounds.Personally, I've ditched the budget vintage amps in favor of the Onkyo A-9555 integrated amp. It's about 85/170 wpc into 8/4 ohms, and has a seemingly non-existent noise floor. ... | |
| Need help setting overhang on the Technics SL-1200 Bob, thanks for the info. Given the way the 2M Black has re-defined the price/performance ratio at $599, it doesn't surprise me that the same cartridge engine with a different stylus (Fritz-Geiger, I think) would do the same thing at around the $3... | |
| Need help setting overhang on the Technics SL-1200 01-29-09: BobgatesJohnnyb53 - I'll have to try the Audio-Technica 150 MLX. Have you compared it to the Ortofon 2M Bronze, which falls in the same price catagory? Thanks. BobNo, I haven't heard the 2M Bronze. The two cartridges are in the same pric... | |
| Need help setting overhang on the Technics SL-1200 01-26-09: BobgatesJohnny53 - thanks for your comments. I liked the results obtained from the Vinyl Engine protractor also. I will definitely give the Audio Technica AT150MLX a listen.Although the purchase prices are only about $150 apart, the AT 1... | |
| Budget Cartridge: Grado Green vs Ortofon 2M Red 01-22-09: FightingwordsI received the 2M Red today, and just got it set up a little bit ago. I'm busy burning it in right now.Assuming it's further broken in now, what do you think of the Ortofon 2M Red overall? | |
| Cheap SS phonostage Here's another +1 for the Cambridge 640P. Very small with low height, and obscenely quiet, making for delicious dynamics. Fast and neutral. I've been living with mine for nearly a year and have no urge to swap it out.I'm only guessing here, but I ... | |
| Chime in.What's the Best Cassette Recorder ever ? I worked in a high end shop in SoCal in the mid-'70s. We carried tape decks by Nakamichi, Revox, Teac, Sony, Tandberg. I worked at another shop a little later that carried Hitachi and Dokorder. In-store we had a Nak 1000 (precursor to the Dragon),... | |
| Need help setting overhang on the Technics SL-1200 01-24-09: TvadThe Technics white plastic jig does is not accurate. It does not allow for cantilever alignment, nor is the overhang optimal when one compares the results to that of the MintLP or this Technics arm protractor downloadable from The Vi... | |
| Last song on most LP's pressed with compression 01-25-09: Jdaniel13The Perfectionist side...The first thing that happens is the culling of great performances for so-so performances on other formats. If you're like me, you'll be buying back (or digging in the closet for) the imperfectly rendered... | |
| Another LP Crushes the CD 01-24-09: HdmPerhaps the print in my post and Mred's needs to be bigger.Maybe you need to fly to Concord Records and straighten them out?Mred didn't agree with you. He said:According to All Music Guide the Keystone disc is with the Marsalis bros. ... | |
| history of Vector Research 7000 I had a couple of Vector Research pieces (receiver and a VCR) that I bought during their heyday in the mid-'80s. Vector Research was a design group in the Camarillo/Westlake area of CA. The gear was outsourced to various far East mfrs, including N... | |
| Budget Cartridge: Grado Green vs Ortofon 2M Red For my $100 I'd go with the 2M Red. I have a Shure M97xE and I find it dull. In my limited experience the Ortofons have a precise yet musical way of going about their business. For $250 the Audio Technica AT150MLX stands alone. To me, it's worth s... | |
| OJC LP Reissues??? I have over a dozen of them and like them a lot. At $10 you get more than you pay for. Not as good as the best Speakers Corner and Analogue Productions reissues, but not $35-50 either.I got my first taste when I ordered 5 or so LPs from Acoustic S... |