johnnyb53
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| Cartridge upgrades for Technics SL-1200MK2? 07-23-07: MyrajI've heard good things about the Audio Technica AT150MLX for a MM cartridge. It's a noticible step up from the AT440 mentioned above, but also at 3x the money at about $260.00. Anyone else that can confirm that with this TT?I bought... | |
| Cartridge upgrades for Technics SL-1200MK2? ...the Sumiko aftermarket headshell is another good tweek for medium and low compliance cartridges.+1 on that recommendation!I just upgraded my 1210 M5G rig from a Shure M97xE to a Denon DL-160 high output moving coil (HOMC) and added the Sumiko h... | |
| Review: Sumiko Blue Point No.2 Cartridge How Sumiko is able to continue to make vast strides in the Blue Point ,while keeping the price so very affordable is a mystery to me. Great sounding high output moving coils are indeed hard to come by. How much more does this cartridge bring to th... | |
| Devotion to 2Ch/MC? I think one reason quadraphonic didn't catch on in the LP era in the early '70s is because LPs were already very musically satisfying and people weren't hankering for something more. The CD4/SQ format wars and extra hardware costs didn't help, eit... | |
| Devotion to 2Ch/MC? When you use 2-channel playback, your own room creates its own ambience by the way the two speakers energize the room. In other words, it puts the performance in YOUR room.When you play back with multi-channel, it places YOU in the original record... | |
| Should I replace my LP12? 07-11-07: DrubinI'm sort of in a similar boat. As far as I know, there is no Linn TT dealer here in the SF Bay Area any more...According to the "Dealer Finder" on Linn's website (http://www.linn.co.uk/find_a_retailer_detail/country/US, there are L... | |
| Center speaker for Carver ALIII + speakers Uh, how about Sunfire's Cinema Ribbon and Cinema Ribbon Trio series of HT speakers, which of course include a couple of hybrid center channel speakers? http://www.sunfire.com/CR.htm and http://www.sunfire.com/CRT.htm | |
| Rega P-5 squeak Hey, Joe_in_Seattle,Did you get your P5 from Hawthorne Stereo? | |
| TV connection to Processor. When I first got my HDTV, I used a CableCard and the built-in tuner on the TV. My TV, a Hitachi RP LC 55" display, has a Toslink digital audio output. I connected that output to a Toslink input on my pre/pro, and voila! I got full Dolby Digital in... | |
| What are you getting for $12k in a pre-pro? I think right now is the WORST time to upgrade pre/pros to handle the digital data stream from Blu-ray or HD DVD. Until they offer full digital video and sound processing from HDMI inputs, you're buying obsolescence.So the interim solution is to m... | |
| Turntable mats It definitely depends on your platter, and even on your drive system, because different platters and drive systems resonate at different frequencies, and different mats are going to suppress different frequencies better than others. A machined alu... | |
| Best sounding VINYL labels? +1 on ECM! What makes it even better is that I've picked up a bunch of Ex+ cond. ECMs from the dollar bin--Pat Metheny, Gary Burton, and Keith Jarrett. All uniformly yummy. | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, I remember 15 years ago when DVD players came with free movies too. That's quite an accomplishment, as the DVD spec wasn't even finalized until Dec. 1995, the DVD Forum didn't form until May 1997. Some early machines may have hit the market around... | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, 07-05-07: ShadorneCurrently they need to sell two HD-DVD players for each Blu-Ray player to make the same net....although a lot of profit comes from selling the "super duper" expensive cables and other accesories... Yeah. Unless you get a special ... | |
| Does digital mastering/remastering "ruin" LP's? I agree with Mothra, there's no simple rule about it all. I have some LPs that were originally digitally recorded, and they sound really good. They're maybe not quite as warm and mellow as a full analog chain, but they are very musically satisfyin... |