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| Vintage or new turntable For a newbie, I would suggest stay with the products of companies that are still in the turntable business, old or new, and that can be serviced by those companies, unless you are into advanced DIY or have a very trusted and knowledgeable repair p... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Complex and possibly true. As to your one direct question, yes, the DV505 sounds better from A to Z with Stevenson vs Baerwald, I subsequently purchased one of Dertonearm's UNIprotractors along with a template specific for the DV505 as well as one... | |
| Lenco and Garrard external ac power supply Dear Jeremy, You wrote, ....."even dedicated lines (in a perfect world) if you really wanted the Lenco to be at its best"The major benefit of a dedicated line would be that the noise put back onto the AC line by the Lenco motor would not then ente... | |
| TT grounding issue Just to add... there is no danger of shorting anything out with the loose ground wire. The worst that could happen, if the bare end touches something, is to re-create another ground loop and thus produce a usually harmless but annoying hum. | |
| Phono Preamp vs Preamp for a Turntable Are you really going to plug the Parasound into the AUX input of your Marantz receiver? That's a bit like using a thoroughbred racehorse to give rides at a children's birthday party. If you have near-future intentions to upgrade everything else, i... | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? Right on, Dan_ed. The only good connector is no connector. But sometimes they are unavoidable. I for one wonder why the SE standard is not BNC instead of RCA. BNC would seem to have the potential to sound better. | |
| MC versus MM. Which to choose. He means LPs, Nikola. He means LPs are more important than the gear we use to listen to them. If one is an audiophile, one must always be careful to say that lest the listener were to think one is merely a gearhead.You guys want vintage? I will gi... | |
| Lenco and Garrard external ac power supply OK. I read what Jlovey wrote. He is saying that the main benefit of the Sanders controller in his opinion was the convenience of changing speed. But he does not say there are NO other benefits, merely that he is not overwhelmed by any improvement ... | |
| Lenco and Garrard external ac power supply "It has been told on lenco heaven that it was mainly for convenience when used with a PTP,as you can change speed at distance.For the sound not a great difference so not a replacement unit for the loricraft."Dear Gilles, I don't get your point. If... | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? If that is what you wrote, I apologize if I misinterpreted your post and then hung you out to dry for it. As to the advice you are giving the OP in the post just above this one, you are entitled to your opinion. But I don't know where "buying the ... | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? Those do look nice, but I found a price of $120 from Handmade Audio (hopefully, that is price per pair). Which supports my point that the OP could have his cables converted for less, I think. Also, I don't see where Cardas makes male XLR to male R... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Ct, Thanks for reminding me. Note that I wrote nothing to the contrary in my post above.Dear Dover, Whoa! The goal of alignment is still to be certain that the stylus will be tangent to the groove at 2 points across the arc over the surface o... | |
| Phono Preamp vs Preamp for a Turntable Seems to me that the most cost-effective approach is to stick with the Marantz receiver and purchase a stand-alone phono stage to go with it. There are many excellent choices at prices well below $500, probably as low as $200 or less, if you admit... | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? Dear R1g audio, A phono cartridge is an inherently balanced transducer that can potentially drive a phono stage in balanced mode. However, if said phono stage is not also a true balanced device, then there is no way to take advantage of the potent... | |
| Pros and Cons of "Staying with" Analog and Vinyl Rok, baby. If you really listen to music first and foremost and not to what your system is doing, then you should learn to appreciate vinyl. First of all, as Doug and some others have said, the experience does not have to be as tedious and "noisy"... |