jrcotner
Responses from jrcotner
| Starting a Classical Vinyl Music Collection I like what I like, but hate to be stuck in a rut. I'll buy mixed classical album sets from Ebay and try to get titles/composers I've never heard of. Sometimes it's obvious why they are not widely known, and other times I am pleasantly surprised... | |
| Cary vs Raven I got the Fritz speaker to try out at home. They had nice high and mid range, but not the oomph which I like with the Forests. I'd rather have a single full-range speaker than satellites and subs. | |
| Cary vs Raven Thanks for all of the advice. I like the Forests, but after having the Fritz Carbon 7 SEs for a while I realized my old speakers were getting tired. I'll take a listen to the Klipsch and see how I feel about them, then look into one of the amps. | |
| Cary vs Raven I can demo the full line of Klipsch heritage speakers at a stereo store within my driving range. They also carry Paradigm speakers, as well as home theater and McIntosh amps. I tried the buy-it-try-it but lugging 70+ pound speakers back and fort... | |
| Cary vs Raven Thanks for the info. My thought was that it's easier to get an amp and take it to various stereo places to try out speakers than drag speakers around to try out amps. | |
| RCA Phono Interconnect Under $400 Thanks for all of your input. I pulled the trigger on the Zafino cables. I found a demo pair marked down so saved a little more money. | |
| RCA Phono Interconnect Under $400 RCA to RCA. Since money is an object I'll have a look at the used cable store. | |
| RCA Phono Interconnect Under $400 Here's a silly question. Some come with ground connections and others don't. Does this mean the ones without a ground wire don't need a ground wire, or you'd need to make one yourself? | |
| RCA Phono Interconnect Under $400 Thanks for the info. A lot has changed since I last bought cables, and I haven't kept up with new trends. I'll check out your suggestions. | |
| SOTA STAR Sapphire Turntable Care and Feeding Thanks for the tip on belt care. I don't have a smart phone, so the app is out. Would electronic contact cleaner be a better choice than brake parts cleaner for the platter rim? Brake cleaner stuff is pretty pernicious stuff, and electric conta... | |
| SOTA STAR Sapphire Turntable Care and Feeding Any upgrades to the turntable will be far in the future. I still have to upgrade my amp and speakers. | |
| SOTA STAR Sapphire Turntable Care and Feeding I got on the phone with SOTA to talk about refurbished turntables. Had a few nice conversations with Christan and we talked about my stereo upgrade plan, the room and my listening habits and tastes. Turns out they have one rosewood Sapphire III ... | |
| Most recent speaker you audited in room and returned? Why did you return it? Zu Union 6. | |
| SOTA STAR Sapphire Turntable Care and Feeding I've been thinking along the same lines. More cost, equipment and fuss for a benefit I may likely not hear. Pretty cool idea, though. | |
| SOTA STAR Sapphire Turntable Care and Feeding Thanks for the info. Good to know you have the option of getting an elderly vacuum model and able to get the vacuum refurbished in the future. |