lewm
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| What's your biggest surprise in hifi? Direct-drive and Idler-drive turntables.The goodness and sometimes the superiority of MM and MI type cartridges that cost hundreds of dollars, rather than thousands.That, contrary to what someone else wrote above, incremental improvements to my sy... | |
| Rega RP10 or Nottingham Space 294 or VPI Prime Just to complete the cycle, I would choose the Notts 294. | |
| Ortofon bronze PNP ALERT!!!!! Let me make sure I understand. Are you saying you bought an Orotofon cartridge second-hand from an Audiogon member and that the contact pins (one or all 4?) pulled out of the cartridge body when you tried to re-mount the cartridge? If this is ba... | |
| No bass with new turntable? I followed the saga from beginning to this end. When you say that you let the system run while you watched TV (or something), were you actually playing LPs during this time, or was the system just "on"? One point I failed to mention and which wa... | |
| BEST TONEARM FOR HIGH COMPLIANCE MM Fleib, I yield to your vast knowledge on these subjects. I've got a used 4500 somewhere, I think. Never heard it. I had been under the impression that XSV4500 was in the line with XSV3000, etc. Now, even as I write this, I am questioning my mem... | |
| No bass with new turntable? Missioncoonery, If you're ONLY talking about very extreme low bass response, there I would agree that the best digital may have an edge on a "good" vinyl set up. But in every other aspect, I would disagree with you. However, if you prefer digit... | |
| No bass with new turntable? My explanation above was not good. What I should have written is "lower the rear of the tonearm a tiny bit, so that the top surface of the headshell is very slightly slanted to the rear, rather than plane parallel to the LP surface". I think tha... | |
| No bass with new turntable? You've left out the two most critical bits of information: What tonearm? What cartridge? (Maybe the Project you own comes with its own tonearm; I would not know.) In any case, low bass response in vinyl is very much a function of the interaction ... | |
| BEST TONEARM FOR HIGH COMPLIANCE MM Isn't the cartridge called "XSV4500", not "4000"? If not, then I have learned something new. Never heard of the 4000. You've received several excellent replies to your question; I think they're all good ideas. To add to the data set on the Unit... | |
| What's up with the ridiculous offers?!? In part, this trend may be a reaction to the glut of way over-priced new gear on the market, designed to attract those with no taste, no experience, and no knowledge who only think they know that the more something costs, the more they want to hav... | |
| Is it possible to be an audiophile and be happy with what you have "..can a audiophile just be happy with what they have [sic]?"Yes, so long as he has at least half a dozen cartridges, a like number of tonearms and turntables and at least two complete audio systems. That's me, and I am happy as a clam. | |
| Grace F9 F8 F-9 F-8 Andante F9 F-9 H S Sumiko Pearl Supex Phono Stylus GAS Sleeping Beauty Chakster, No, I am not familiar with F9F. What cantilever does it use? | |
| Grace F9 F8 F-9 F-8 Andante F9 F-9 H S Sumiko Pearl Supex Phono Stylus GAS Sleeping Beauty Dan, I too often make mistakes, but it does seem to me from memory that the Ruby, which also carries the categorical designation "F9", is alone in having the ruby/sapphire cantilever. I always thought that this is what differentiates it from the ... | |
| Jimmy Fallon has a Mcintosh turntable Dover, Nice to know I am so important to you that you crawled all the way over here to insult me on another thread. The moderator will later probably remove this post, but he ought also to consider removing your posts from this and the DD thread,... | |
| AMR PH-77, ARC Reference 2, Allnic H-3000, Octave Agucela, What that means is that the circuit inside is single-ended (often abbreviated "SE"), but the maker has also provided an XLR jack for output to some other device that may have an XLR input jack. It's well that the manufacturer admits this... |