johnnyb53
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| Are Digitally mastered LPs any better than CDs? It's not like every LP you put on is going to be ridden with surface noise and tics and pops. In fact, the digitally mastered LPs I have are particularly quiet. I like all-analog LPs the best, but I have gone out of my way to buy digitally recorde... | |
| Which Record Cleaning Machine? 08-31-08: ChadnlizIsnt any serious Vinyl guy going to have his own RCM? No. I'm a serious vinyl guy and I don't have one. This statement is based on the assumption that being serious about vinyl has more to do with your love and devotion to the me... | |
| Which Record Cleaning Machine? 08-31-08: Johnnyb53How about the Clearaudio Double-Smart Matrix? Those are very pricey over here, but he lives in Belgium and may be able to get a used one for under 2K Euro.Check that. It's even better. He can get the same model Abso!ute Sound re... | |
| Time to change. But to what? A speaker that comes to my mind given your criteria is the Legacy Audio Whisper. It's physically imposing, but unlike most speakers that size, its free-air woofers function as dipoles, making it easy to place them closer to side walls. The woofers... | |
| Which Record Cleaning Machine? How about the Clearaudio Double-Smart Matrix? Those are very pricey over here, but he lives in Belgium and may be able to get a used one for under 2K Euro. | |
| components vs integrated vs "lifestyle solutions" I tried to buy an Outlaw RR2150 and didn't feel that it was "all that" and sent it back. For that slot in your system I nominate the Onkyo A-9555 integrated amp instead. I'll find out starting Tuesday when mine gets delivered, but I suspect at $45... | |
| Simple System for Super Senior...continued I concur with the all-in-one recommendation (receiver w/built-in CD player) such as is available from Arcam, NAD, or Music Hall. For speakers I recommend the Mirage Omnisat v2 satellites and their Prestige S8 sub. Mirages and their subs blend exce... | |
| Looking for ACCURATE SPEED turntable/tonearm combo Like it or not, you are not going to get the speed accuracy of a Technics DD until you move up to about the $5000 range. Why not the Technics? They're dead-nuts accurate on speed. They are also very quiet, in spite of what the shills for the Briti... | |
| Oh, my VSP Labs TransMOS 150 amp back from repair Bobgates: Wow! That's saying something, and that's something to look forward to.I'm fine with a 100-hr. break-in. That's what the Mirages required, and actually they kept sounding better for another couple hundred hours.Did you change the Onkyo's ... | |
| The disappearing $500 turntable 08-29-08: Les_creative_edgeYou can buy Technics SL12xx MKII series. You will be hard pressed to find another table in its price range or double that to compete with it.Having just had a listening session with a Rega P3/24, I have to say I'll take ... | |
| Help choosing a new cartridge Interesting thing about my AT150MLX: The more I've improved the components downstream, the better it's revealed the AT150MLX's goodness, and hasn't introduced any of its limitations, whatever they might theoretically be. | |
| Babies and Speakers I bought a new pair of floorstanding speakers the same year my first baby was born (1987). I chose a pair of ADS 1090's for the following reasons: 1) I liked the sound; 2) There was no port where a baby or toddler could insert baby toys or wet wip... | |
| Will new Class D trump a vintage Class A/AB? 08-27-08: MapmanI think the result will come down to taste and preference more than anything else.Isn't the thing still humming though?It's the VSP Labs TransMOS 150 that hums and it's back in the shop for them to fix it right for the $144 I paid ... | |
| DIY Vinyl Racks Is your Caps Lock key stuck or do you work from a 1st-gen. TeleType machine? | |
| What's wrong with my ProJect 9.1? 08-29-08: ZealJust so you know, nothings wrong with my Pro-ject 9. I have got it all down right and sounding good. Thanks for everyone's help.So what'd you do? How did you fix it? It didn't sound very encouraging when you first posted. |