johnss
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| Typical upgrade path from VPI? Your original comment stated you had lack of mid bass or bass. Before you begin working on your room or speakers, you need to make sure your TT is getting it off the record first. This can not be done by listening. NAB (National Association of Bro... | |
| Opinions on Glass Shelves toss the glass, and head to your local granite counter top guy. Will cost you about 125 per shelf for real granite.Much more dead than any kind of glass and much more rigid than glass. | |
| Typical upgrade path from VPI? Madfloyd, without knowing what the actual response is from your TT you are just guessing. Buy a NAB broadcast test disc, play it back and measure the output voltage from your pre amp at each test frequency. Once you know what the response is, the... | |
| burning in capacitors for phono stages Sns,To break in all the caps, solder your caps together in series. Put an RCA on on end, and a 10K ohm resistor on the other end. Run a ground wire from the RCA shell to the other end of the resistor to form a complete circuit. plug this assembly ... | |
| Looking for ACCURATE SPEED turntable/tonearm combo Rccc and the others are right. Buy the Rega P5, but don't come back to complain when you see strobe drift. Like others here, I have dropped 7K and more on a high end LP play back units. They sounded good; looked ultra sexy, but the KAB blew them o... | |
| How many use Vintage Hi-Fi systems? Eweedhome, you are not cheating.......some of the vintage gear sounds great after parts upgrades. BTW, on the PV5, if you vishay out the entire phono section, it will be an eye opener as to the resolution improvement you'll get. I used to have a ... | |
| Pioneer CT-F1000 Need Help Rwwear is correct. These Pioneer decks were not known for their high reliability. Having said that, did you check and see if the belt is slipping? I don't recall if this model has a direct drive capstan or not. best | |
| How many People own Working Reel to Reel Decks? I still use reel decks. These inlcude; Studer 807, two Otari MTR-10's, Otari MTR-15; Tascam 42, Tascam 52, Magnecord 1022, Teac X-1000RBL. | |
| Top resistors The top vishays are the S102 and the VSR.They are measureably quieter than anything else out there, and have an openness to the sound. If you install Vishays and your piece now sounds bright, the brightness is due to something else; not the vishay... | |
| Adcom GFA 555 amp upgrades you'd probably be better selling the mark 1 and buying the 555 mk2s on the used market if you want an Adcom with a larger supply. But even then the 555 mk2 is not optimal. | |
| Preamp Suggestions?? As one poster mentioned, going to a tube pre will help, but the Adcom 555 needs to be cleaned up to gain some real benefit. The 555 is fairly easy to work on. Unscrew the top cover. You'll see teh blue power supply caps. Add some film and foil byp... | |
| Adcom GFA-545 - Modify or Move On? Capital, The 545 is a decent amp, but the mark 2 version has the better power supplies and would be worth seeking out over the mark 1 versions. In either case, both suffer from some grain on the top end. I have worked a number of the Adcom amps; ... | |
| VTL MB450 monos Vs. BAT VK 60se monos? The VTLs are really nice, but you'd better be prepared to crank up your AC in the summer time. It will be similiar to running your AC and furnace at the same time. As another poster noted, you should give the JC-1s a listen or include them in the ... | |
| Where to buy vinyl? db, you did not state where you are roughly located, so its tough to offer retail options. On line try DCCblowout dot com. If you are on the east coast, be sure to swing by Princeton Record exchange, you'll spend 3 hrs there at a min. If on the w... | |
| chassi wire-phonostage ? Stringreen is correct. You need to decide up front what you are after. The Cardas is better for long term listening. If you are after detail, a better way to obtain that is to replace the resistors in your phono stage with Vishays. They will lower... |