johnnyb53
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| Cartridge Rec's for AR EB 101 Good answer! From what I read in the May/June issue of $ensible Sound, the AT150ML is probably the most like the Shure V15. The reviewer thought it was actually quite a bit better. According to him the stylus shape is similar if not the same (Micr... | |
| Turntable lamp? I got one in the outdoor/barbecue section at Lowe's. It's marketed as an after-hours barbecue lamp. It has a base that can attach as a clamp or magnet, is AAA-battery-powered, has a nice. long flexible gooseneck, and a bright halogen lamp. At Lowe... | |
| Good sounding, small center speaker Mirage Omnisat v2 or Nanosat, or the center channel version of either. They're all very small and omnipolar, which means you get wide coverage from a very small speaker. Center channel clarity does NOT suffer, however. Their midrange is exemplary,... | |
| what would you get for 1000$ ? 08-10-07: PiedpiperThanks for restating Metalsymph. Good question, and not easily answered. There has definitely been some evolution in TT design but economy of scale and inflation make it a complex question with no definitive answer IMHO. And tha... | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, And HD DVD is already putting out DVD/HD DVD dual-layer disks, so they're already up on the curve where a single SKU-per-title is concerned.Still...the difference in studio support in the US (Sony/Comumbia/MGM/UA/Disney/Fox/Warner/Paramount for Bl... | |
| what would you get for 1000$ ? At $1K, you could get a Technics SL 1210 Mk2 from Musicians Friend for $400 HERE, and an Origin Live armboard, VTA adjuster, and OL-1 tonearm HERE. I'd get at least the mechanical mod and maybe the rewire if I could spring for it.Cartridge? For st... | |
| Please help with speaker choices 08-09-07: MariasplungeJohnny, thanks for the vote for the Sonus Fabers. have you expereince with the Cremona's. Very good looking. I was wondering about the small front baffle and what that sounded like.I have a local Sonus Faber dealer. I am not ... | |
| Please help with speaker choices I also have to second your interest in Sonus Fabers. I think they're fabulous speakers and would do great things with the wide variety of music and volumes you listen to. Their tonal balance is similar to Mirage. You may even want to look into som... | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, 08-08-07: LeedistadI admit to being startled that Hitachi is launching the first two Blu-ray camcorders this fall. I remember when Sony was the king of the camcorder, and I'm surprised that they weren't first to market with a Blu-ray Handycam.Mayb... | |
| Any Pro-ject RPM 10 owners out there yet? Seems to me the competition at the $1600 and $2500 price points has gotten sort of fierce. At $1600 you have the VPI Scout w/JMW9 arm, the Pro-Ject RM9.1, the Music Hall MMF7, the Funk Firm or Funk Vector with a variety of arms, including a Moth (... | |
| New Cart? Best all around performer...MM or HO The better (from AT440MLa on up) Audio Technica cartridges are a bit of a bargain from a stylus standpoint, as the 440MLa, AT150, and OC9 all use a MicroLine stylus which--because of where it sits in the groove--is both quieter and extracts more d... | |
| new Aja 180 gram vinyl pressing just arrived More power to you. Fortunately, pretty much all issues of AJA are "audiophile" pressings.I wish I still had my early ABC pressing (a flood, mold, and warping took it). | |
| Please help with speaker choices 08-07-07: MariasplungeThose look interesting Johnnyb. What room size are you listening to those in and how far away are you sitting from them? How do they handle rock?The living room is nominally about 16'x18', but it's in an open architecture wit... | |
| Please help with speaker choices I have a couple of addenda to my previous post.First, concerning the Mirage OMD-28s, I listen to ALL kinds of music on my Omnisats sourced from LP, and they never disappoint, whether it's solo, small group jazz or acoustic folk/pop, electronica, n... | |
| Please help with speaker choices If you want a real departure, check out the Mirage OMD-28.This is Mirage's high end assault on 2-channel playback incorporating a much higher-spec version of their Omnipolar module. I got married in my living room in Dec. 2004; we had musicians pr... |