johnnyb53
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| Want to Start vinyl 07-03-07: TatersHere's the bottom line for me. I would rather call Nate at Acoustic Sounds and order the highest quality vinyl on the planet than spend 8 hours looking for used vinyl and maybe finding 2 to 3 records that are listenable.I think tha... | |
| Want to Start vinyl Go for it! I just bought a turntable at the beginning of March, and acquired at least 200 albums in the next 2 months for probably $300 or maybe less. Even most of the vinyl I've fished out of the dollar bins and thrift shops have been very clean ... | |
| Home Theater Enclosure Problem? For starters, put properly rated Vibrapods under your player and pre/pro or receiver. These things are amazing for the money for cleaning up microvibrations and sound-smearing resonances.What kind of speaker cable are you running to your center ch... | |
| SME Needs good Head... How about a NOS SME headshell? And then there's always the $39.95 Sumiko with azimuth adjustment and high quality leads, available at Music Direct, Acoustic Sounds, and other quality-oriented online vendors. | |
| Good low-price cartridge for listening to rock. Here's a link to the Shure M97xE for $60.93 where they aren't out of stock at the time of this posting:http://www.amazon.com/Shure-M97xE-High-Performance-Magnetic-Cartridge/dp/B00006I5SB/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-1597082-1738535?ie=UTF8&s=electronic... | |
| Good low-price cartridge for listening to rock. 06-29-07: Marntz4meWith my above mentioned setup (MMF5 + Ortofon Super OM-10) CDs in my opinion seem to sound more detailed.How do you have your MMF sited? What kind of rack, platforming, and mat are you using? A turntable is far more vulnerable t... | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, You can get Planet Earth from Netflix in standard DVD, HD DVD, or Blu-ray. | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, 06-26-07: LeedistadNot to be negative, but I've sat through a lot of demos of both formats, and have yet to be wowed by any of the content beyond what I've seen done by good DVD-players that upconvert 480p content...I have a 720p/1080i RP LCD 55" ... | |
| A "house sound" among turntable manufacturers ? 06-26-07: UndertowJohnnyb53, Nice... And totally I can agree with you, However Sorry to tell you that Has nothing to do with the MMF 9 . "1" ... Thats an old MMF 9 which is Not the same, even the MMF 7 in my opinion was better than the MMF 9 for t... | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, 06-26-07: Newbie13So far, sales swing back and forth based on who has the hot titles being released. Now if titles were being released on both formats and we could see those numbers.Paramount and Warner release in both formats.There are some title... | |
| A "house sound" among turntable manufacturers ? 06-26-07: UndertowI will say this, The new MMF 9.1 by music hall is a giant killer...Interesting. Here's a side-by-side comparison where a half-as-expensive rig killed the giant killer:http://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/technics_sl1200_2_e.htmlIt w... | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, 06-24-07: Rysa4Fundamentally the Blu ray disc is a bit of technologic problem because it requires much more processing and hard drive space to function than an HD-DVD player; thats why they really havent been able to roll out all of those purporte... | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, 06-21-07: FatparrotDon't forget that Sony's Play Station 3 will play Blu-ray, so there a huge market penetration due to the sale of these machines.And Xbox does HD DVD. But on the worldwide market, you're absolutely correct: Playstation has by far... | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, The thing is, Blu-ray players are still $600 and up, mostly up, whereas you can currently get a Toshiba A2 or D2 for $249-299, and a full-featured 1080p (with 5.1 analog output) machine for about $500. Plus they're excellent upconverting players a... | |
| Mr. Clean - Erase` It's a tip I picked up here and it WORKS! My M97xE stylus was looking black, lumpy, and fuzzy, and a few strokes with a Magic Eraser cleaned it in no time. I now give the stylus a few strokes with the Eraser between every 2 or 3 records to keep it... |