lewm
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| Rolling Mullard 6DJ8 into GE 5670 Application Depends upon what the tube is doing in the DAC. If it is supplying gain, then yes you'll hear "a difference". What sort of difference is impossible to say without knowing the circuit and even then it would be a guess. If the tube is just acting ... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Once you start creating Frankenstein cartridges, by changing or modifying cantilevers, styli, coils, suspension, bodies, etc, then opinions regarding the net SQ are even more useless than otherwise, not to say that comparing OEM cartridges without... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? I read the thread on WBF via the URL provided by Mike. He started the thread in mid-2020, and I read it up to about mid-2021, but posts continue to the present. As of where I left off, Mike owned two of these expensive LFD cables. One is a phon... | |
| One turntable with two arms, or two turntables with one each - which would you prefer? Dogberry, what phono stage provides 5 pairs of phono inputs? | |
| Record collecting versus hoarding Soko, I trash unplayable LPs, even if I like the music on them, and then I search for a better copy. If it's a really special performance, in my own mind, I try to replace the bad sounding copy with a better one almost immediately. | |
| Early SOTA vs New Something: Conundrum It's not "sparring". | |
| Does Everyone Use 2 Phono Cables with SUT Dinov, there really IS no difference except I guess in the minds of some or where a phono cable could be defined as a cable that terminates at one pair of ends by a usually female DIN plug or the like. | |
| Record collecting versus hoarding I am fine with keeping LPs I do not play, because of the possibility that I will want to listen to them some day. What I don’t tolerate are bad sounding LPs (meaning poor quality recordings) or LPs that have noise causing surface damage that resis... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. | |
| Deciding on which of my cartridges to go on Origin Live and Kuzma arms None of the tonearms is ideal for the Charisma/Denon, but you can add mass by using a heavy headshell like the Ortofon LH9000. | |
| Record collecting versus hoarding What do you mean here?: “I don’t want to take away from my records on heavy rotation.” | |
| Record collecting versus hoarding In my opinion, one must have a certain number of LPs in order to enjoy occasionally that serendipitous musical revelation, where you spot an LP you hadn’t played in years or didn’t even know you had in your collection, and you experience the delig... | |
| Record collecting versus hoarding M, was joking. | |
| Record collecting versus hoarding Soko, If I have a particular LP in mind, I can usually recall when I bought it. The upstairs LPs are ones I have owned longest. Or there is some other temporal or musical association that tells me where to look. For another example, I have a la... | |
| Record collecting versus hoarding It behooves me to have about half or more of my LP collection in our basement, because I have an entirely separate audio system also in the basement, which is finished like anyone’s living room. Generally, the LPs in the basement stay in the basem... |