johnnyb53
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| Speaker help under $2,500 +1 on the NAD BEE series. That's was what driving the Magneplanar 1.7s I auditioned and bought. I had to try multiple combinations of amps and preamps at home to match the dynamics, resolution, and musicality of the NAD C 375BEE integrated amp in ... | |
| Grace F9 F8 F-9 F-8 Andante F9 F-9 H S Sumiko Pearl Supex Phono Stylus GAS Sleeping Beauty At the bottom-feeder end of things, I'm curious about the $329 Shelter 201 vs. the $99 Sumiko Pearl. A lot of people out there think the Shelter 201 MM is just a rebadged Sumiko Pearl. The thing is, if Sumiko doesn’t make them (which I suspected),... | |
| Jimmy Fallon has a Mcintosh turntable "And it's not like Steve Hoffman is a high-end wannabe dupe"And what is that supposed to mean?Hoffman, one of the best at remastering LPs, is very results-oriented with a tremendous ear for evaluating sound quality. He would evaluate a turntable b... | |
| Jimmy Fallon has a Mcintosh turntable I love the part about "pretty good value" at $8k or so. That's really comical.Oh, I thought this was a high end audio website. A 4-figure turntable ($8K including $1750 cartridge) is hardly extreme where there are 6-figure turntables. And it's no... | |
| Jimmy Fallon has a Mcintosh turntable McIntosh has two turntables now, the MT10 and the MT5. The MT10 is the one they introduced in 2007 or so, has the front blue-lit meter, and comes with some variant of the Clearaudio Talismann LOMC cartridge. The MT50 is smaller and less ambitious,... | |
| Jimmy Fallon has a Mcintosh turntable On Elementary, Sherlock's electronics are definitely McIntosh, including (I think) a turntable. The floorstanding speakers are Energy CF-70 Towers, with a pair of Energy CB-10s or CB-20s on the bookshelves.http://www.energy-speakers.com/tower-spea... | |
| I hear a lot of talk about the higher end Audio Technical cartridges on here Concerning the ART9, Needledoctor doesn't carry it right now, but LpGear does. Amazon doesn't have it but eBay does, one from Thakker in Germany and the other from Japan-Select-Shop. LpGear's price is less than Thakker's and about $150 more than J... | |
| I hear a lot of talk about the higher end Audio Technical cartridges on here https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/pani-new-art-9-up-and-running | |
| What Cartridge please? Also available at $500-ish is the Audio Technica AT33PTG/II. It's not officially distributed in the US, but is easy to find on Amazon and eBay from Japanese vendors. It's also available on Japan-based audiocubes2.com.It's like the AT33EV except th... | |
| are magnepan mmg any good and intergrated amp suggestion for them I have had and enjoyed Magneplanar 1.7s for over two years now. Maggie panels are a revelation. Even though my previous speakers were designed to reduce cabinet resonances as much as possible, I was unprepared for how *quiet* Magnepan speakers are... | |
| A new player in the quality Mono cartridge game Well Stringreen, you have evidently been lucky in your acquisition of mono LPs. I have several that I've rescued from thrift shops for 99 cents or less. Many of them proved to be unlistenable with my stereo setup. but revealed themselves as powerf... | |
| New TT -- $1k - $1500 The fluid damper works very well, and the Technics tonearm bearings seem to hold up well. My deck has been in daily service for almost 9 years. Technics actually stated the bearing drag (7.5mg, I think) as one of its published specs.Concerning the... | |
| It's Back - Technics SL-1200 MKGAE "Now if I can just get my hands on a Shure V-15 Type V ..."Would a Type III do?http://www.lpgear.com/product/SHEC02IIIHE.htmlAs an alternative, the Audio Technica AT150MLX has a lot of high end internals (PCOCC wiring, boron cantilever ...) and it... | |
| New TT -- $1k - $1500 Tone Publications review of SL-1200 with SME tonearm and other upgrades here:http://www.tonepublications.com/analogaholic/sl-1200-upgrades-sound-hifi/ | |
| New TT -- $1k - $1500 Well, Martinman, I’m *not* a DIY-er, and yet all the tweaks I mentioned I did myself. Installing the KAB fluid damper was pretty simple, and everything else was easier.I had one advantage, however. The SL1210 M5G model comes standard with oxygen-f... |