johnnyb53
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| Best Standard Def DVD Player under $8,000 used? 01-11-09: Tom92602To all: If you have no experience with these 4 playersdo us both a favor and post elsewhere. If you have a/b'dthese I'd love to hear of your experiences.We're not alone in our assessments. Check out www.ultimateavmag.com for thei... | |
| 78 RPM turntable 01-17-09: Casey33I play my shellac (78s) on an old single ended tube record player.Previously owned by the local school systems audio visual dept.At $2 it was a bargain and really sounds pretty good.Self contained with a single speaker built in.Go... | |
| 78 RPM turntable 01-15-09: Oregonsimple- get a Lenco.I don't think getting a Lenco and restoring it is simple. Neither is getting and restoring a Thorens TD124 or any number of other 30+ year-old rim drive alternatives.Getting a current production Audio-Technica A... | |
| Geffen Records lp's 01-15-09: XiekitchenI was going to talk about the Pat Metheny recordings but I see someone beat me to it. The sound quality of "Still Life" is very good, but the pressing itself and vinyl suck. My Geffin label pressing suffers from noisy bad vinyl... | |
| 78 RPM turntable This one! They list at $400 and are well-reviewed at that price. Plus, it has a +/- 20% speed adjustment, which could adjust for the wide variety of mastering speeds on old 78s. The detachable headshell makes it easy to switch between a 78 and an ... | |
| Ortofon Rondo Blue vs 2M Black I own an Ortofon OM10 but otherwise have no direct experience with either of these cartridges. Based on what I've read, however, the 2M Black seems to be widely considered as serious competition to MC carts up to $1500. Given its higher output tha... | |
| Geffen Records lp's My experience is exactly the opposite, though I don't know if I have any Geffen pop/rock LPs. I have three Pat Metheny Geffen LPs (Still Life (Talking), Letter From Home, and Question and Answer), and they are some of the best commercial pressings... | |
| How much were vinyl records selling for? There is a wide range of responses on the price of LPs "when CDs took over" because it took about 5 years for CDs to take over, and LPs had a broad price range, from the bargain bin cutouts making way for the new format to the last of the new rele... | |
| Blue Ray Quality with a 1080i / 720p HDTV? Just so you know, the only HDTVs that truly display 1080i in native mode are CRT-based. All the LCD, DLP, and plasma-based HDTVs that accept 480p, 720p, and 1080i input (but NOT 1080p) have a native mode of 720p to maybe 768p. That means that when... | |
| 7.1 setup I think dipole surrounds should go the way of the dinosaur. The out-of-phase thing is a holdover from the old analog Dolby ProLogic days when the surround signal was mono and you wanted a vague, phasey surround environment to compensate. Ever sinc... | |
| MM vs MC It's probably worth distinguishing Moving Iron (MI) vs. Moving Magnet (MM) as well. MI usually has the same output and capacitive considerations as MM, but its design allows for less weight at the other end of the cantilever. Also, since there are... | |
| I have gone insane, need help For some insight on the Thorens TD124, go to Stereophiles website and do a search for Art Dudley's columns on his meticulous restoration of a TD124. He certainly didn't start with NOS in the box, yet he has abandoned all his previous TTs in favor ... | |
| KAB 1200 vs. everything else. I think it's your APL-modded 3910 that is skewing the paradigm. I just read this A-gon review of it and it's obvious that this digital rig breaks all the conventional rules on what redbook playback sounds like. I got into LP playback because I aud... | |
| I got a stylus cleaning kit for, but--------- I'm another big believer in the Magic Eraser. I've been using it since I first read about it 1-1/2 years ago. I have a removable headshell and an 8x photographic loupe magnifier, and it was easy to see all the gunk and fuzz that had accumulated, a... | |
| $600 +/- Bookshelfs w/ Holographic Soundstage I'd give serious thought to these or these. Note that the NHT speakers on Amazon are sold singly, so they're really $650/pair. They typically sold for over $900/pair and were widely considered the best speaker out there under $1K. NHTs are pretty ... |