johnnyb53
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| MONO cartridge recommendation mofimadness wrote:I also have an Audio Technica AT-Mono/3. It’s a pretty decent little cart and isn’t very expensive.I have that cartridge, too. It’s officially imported and sold by LpGear for $189.99. I got mine through a Japanese storefront on A... | |
| LP's... Do they sound better now than 30 yrs ago? The trends in competing album formats from the late '60s to the early 90s could explain varying levels of wear and tear on original LPs. From the '50s to the '70s, a needle in a groove was by far the dominant format for personal music, and it show... | |
| Anyone experience the Magnepan Tri Center Would this Planar Speaker Asylum Forum thread help, especially the experience of jd Audiophile, whose Tri-Center setup is pictured on the Tri-Center page of the Magnepan website? | |
| LP's... Do they sound better now than 30 yrs ago? The first OPEC oil crisis started in October, 1973, four years *after* RCA introduced Dynaflex records (about 70g IIRC) in 1969. So Dynaflex was *not* a response to rising oil prices. It probably was, in part, for saving money. I've found that Dyn... | |
| Disappointed w/ Klipsch Heresy III. Now what? Is anyone considering the size of the listening room? 18' x 40' is nearly the area of a 4-car garage, and we don't know if it's a standard ceiling, raised, or cathedral. With an 8' ceiling, the volume would be 5,760 cu. ft; with a 15' cathedral ce... | |
| Disappointed w/ Klipsch Heresy III. Now what? Replace the Rega with something much more powerful and pull the Ohms out of the closet. (Suboptimal because it will make my wife sad BECAUSE OF THE AFOREMENTIONED PERCEIVED UGLINESS.)I know asthetics is a matter of taste, but this limitation has ... | |
| What turntable and TONEARM brands sound best with the Denon DL103 and DL 103R? MC's pani writes:... I wonder how far a modded 103r can go. Since Zu Audio’s potted aluminum-bodied Zu-103r is currently out of stock, the DL-103r can probably go this far with Audio Musikraft's modding kits. Art Dudley gave the Audio Musikraft mods a ... | |
| What turntable and TONEARM brands sound best with the Denon DL103 and DL 103R? MC's A case in point for the Jelco 750 for compatibility with a wide variety of cartridges is its fluid damping. The fluid damper reduces the amplitude of resonances, whether they are from warps, off-center holes, or less-than-ideal arm/cartridge reson... | |
| Disappointed w/ Klipsch Heresy III. Now what? I’d recommend you sell your new Heresys, get another pair of Ohm 1000s, and put your money where you should have--in a more powerful amp. That’s all you needed with your previous system. 35wpc for a pair of Ohm floorstanders was a bad match, no ma... | |
| Obscure brands worth considering I buy from well established companies that will stay in business for a while and provide great support.Good point ... up to a point. These are volatile times, we don't know who's going to buy whom, and most important, what they're going to do with... | |
| Is the upgrade from Scout 1.1 to the Prime worth it? Is the upgrade from Scout 1.1 to the Prime worth it?Given that the VPI Scout Prime is Stereophile's cover story for the October issue, I'd say, "Probably." | |
| New Budget phono from Parasound It seems to me that the better deal would be the Parasound Halo integrated amp. For a grand more, you get a Stereophile Class A component (most of the other Class A Integrateds are thousands more), a highly rated MM/MC phono stage (that is probabl... | |
| Hana SH vs ortafon 2m Black I just got my October 2017 issue of Stereophile, which has their semi-annual "Recommended Components" feature. This month, the $475 Hana EL is solidly in the Class B group of cartridges. Most of the other Class B cartridges range from $799 to $120... | |
| Hana SH vs ortafon 2m Black Bimasta: Apology accepted; very big of you to walk that back. Actually we share some of the same concerns. As I grow older, I've become more vigilant over confusing my opinions with verifiable facts or at least reasonably likely theories.I've come... | |
| Best value $1500 TT and cartridge. Winoguy17: Good suggestion (Clearaudio Concept). Along the same line is another turntable from the same OEM, but a different brand name, and some interesting variations:https://www.musicdirect.com/turntables/marantz-tt-15-acrylic-turntableAbsolute... |