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Dec 26, 2015	Turntable Wars- Reviewers take sides Whether Johnny moved or not, most of those folks are no longer performing in LA or anywhere else. Bud Shank is one of my candidates for least hyped and most accomplished sax players of all time. However, the jazz scene in most of our major cities...
Dec 25, 2015	Grace F9 F8 F-9 F-8 Andante F9 F-9 H S Sumiko Pearl Supex Phono Stylus GAS Sleeping Beauty I've now got about 5-6 hours on the Ruby/OCL. It is producing a "big" and very highly detailed sound. During the first 2 hours, it sounded tipped up in the treble with not much bass. This is in a Dynavector DV505 tonearm with an aftermarket head...
Dec 25, 2015	Turntable Wars- Reviewers take sides Henry, True that HP was at one time operating with no advertisers, but word was that he (and some of his top reviewers) would keep gear "lent" for review for indefinite periods of time, as in "forever". This creates a conflict of interest, becaus...
Dec 24, 2015	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, Thank you for your response.Chakster, I gather you at least prefer the CS100 to the Shure V15 Type whatever. That still leaves some wiggle room for the CS100 to be bested by many others, such as the Glanz/Astatics. I never thought much of ...
Dec 23, 2015	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Chakster, In fairness to Raul, he was comparing the MF100 to the MF200, to answer my specific question. He is not saying that either is superior to the MF2500.Raul, Can you clarify what you say about the two Stantons. I know you do not share my f...
Dec 21, 2015	Turntable Wars- Reviewers take sides Do you think so, Henry? Back in the day, HP routinely had lots of unobtainium gear with which to play and on which he leaked incomplete reports now and then, with a vague promise of more to follow, which never happened. If I still cared about su...
Dec 20, 2015	Turntable Wars- Reviewers take sides The Acoustic Signature is only $123K. Peanuts compared to some of the other high-bling turntables out there. Doesn’t the Clearaudio cost $250K? Not to mention the 280,000-Euro Apolyt (please). And with the AS you get a tonearm with inner tubes, as...
Dec 20, 2015	Mono Cartridge Zyx Airy 3 or Mayajima Zero Don, I, for one, also do advocate using the mono mode where it's available. However, many if not most "modern" preamplifiers do not provide such a switch. In that case, one either has to know how to create a mono signal from a stereo one, electr...
Dec 19, 2015	New format, dislike..... I like this format more and more, as I learn to appreciate the new features. Keep it.
Dec 19, 2015	Harvey Rosenberg: Did he or didn't he...... Just to set the record straight-er, Harvey was certainly a patron of Julius Futterman's, but Julius patented his OTL circuit in the very early 50s, probably before he ever heard of Harvey. Later on, Harvey and/or New York Audio Labs, the company ...
Dec 19, 2015	Grace F9 F8 F-9 F-8 Andante F9 F-9 H S Sumiko Pearl Supex Phono Stylus GAS Sleeping Beauty Thanks, Dave. I look forward to the same excellent performance from my newly repaired Ruby/OCL as you describe for yours. If that's the case, it will probably turn out to be the primary cartridge on my Beveridge system for quite a while, given m...
Dec 19, 2015	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,I have no idea whether the Glanz mf31L and Astatic MF200 are brothers from another mother, or not. But one could take the specifications you quote for each as a way of proving they are not the same and turn the data around to use as evi...
Dec 19, 2015	Mono Cartridge Zyx Airy 3 or Mayajima Zero I have heard the ZYX in another guy's system. It sounded excellent. IMO, you cannot go wrong with either choice. Having said that, I have pretty much decided to buy a Zero or Premium Be Mono, for little more than half the cost of the Zero.
Dec 19, 2015	Techinics Sp-10 Mk2a break-in period Norm, Here's the thing: The lamp cord, as I recall, is/was hard soldered to the PS. Then when you ditched that you or someone else installed an IEC connector, to which you plugged in the Nordost PC. In all my audio experience, NO connector has ...
Dec 16, 2015	Grace F9 F8 F-9 F-8 Andante F9 F-9 H S Sumiko Pearl Supex Phono Stylus GAS Sleeping Beauty As mentioned above, I recently (less than 2 weeks ago) sent my Grace Ruby, previously OCL re-tipped by Sound Smith, back to SS for re-evaluation, more than 2 years after the original work had been done. As also previously mentioned, it never soun...