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Dec 30, 2011	Pros and Cons of "Staying with" Analog and Vinyl Rok2id, I respect your right to prefer digital and to revile vinyl analog reproduction. But in your initial post you stated that you abandoned vinyl immediately when the first CD players became available. That does not speak well for your audio go...
Dec 30, 2011	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? T, Good point; strain gauge is not an MC. But Raul likes to generate a mystery. I was also poking fun at Raul a bit, because he once went off on the Sound Smith strain gauge ensemble for its failure to adhere accurately to RIAA.Don't you think tha...
Dec 30, 2011	Speakers to hang on to for LIFE Wow! I just reviewed several pages of this thread. What is most striking to me is that almost no speaker is named by more than one person as "the best". (I think the OP back in 2001 wanted to hear about the best speaker one has ever heard, not one...
Dec 30, 2011	Clearaudio Concept or Emotion CMB? Just in general, a higher quality but used piece of gear of any type that can be purchased at a price similar to the NOS price of a lower quality item of the same type is a good buy. Is that sentence too complex? OK, buy the Emotion CMB, if the se...
Dec 30, 2011	Using Test LP - curious observations Actusreus, This idea may be erroneous from the get-go, but I believe (without searching for a photo) that the VPI tonearm is one of those that has the wiring sticking up from the arm tube near the pivot. If so, it may well be that the added "force...
Dec 29, 2011	MC versus MM. Which to choose. Thanks for taking the time to respond, Mike. For what it's worth, those two just happen to be among the few that I also have auditioned. The top Acutex's and the top Stanton/Pickerings are better, FWIW, and not that I think this will send you out ...
Dec 29, 2011	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Audpulse,"I think I have a clue since the cartridge can be purchased used for around $200.00" Where was that information revealed? I must have been on vacation without a computer. Could be a Denon or an AT. Not much else in LOMC at that secon...
Dec 29, 2011	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? T, Good point; strain gauge is not an MC. But Raul likes to generate a mystery. I was also poking fun at Raul a bit, because he once went off on the Sound Smith strain gauge ensemble for its failure to adhere accurately to RIAA.Don't you think tha...
Dec 29, 2011	Upgraded to Clearaudio Goldfinger Statement? Dear Syntax, In your first post, you may have mistyped the word "Goldfinger", and it came out "Coldfinger". Given your penchant for subtle irony, the next poster naturally thought you were making a deliberate and clever descriptive pun. I don't bl...
Dec 29, 2011	MC versus MM. Which to choose. Dear Mike, Me, too. I wanted to hear what idler- and direct-drive turntables could do, after spending 30 years or so in the belt-drive world, albeit not at the top of that world. My experience thus far leads me to stick with idler- and/or direct-d...
Dec 29, 2011	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, I wonder whether it is a strain gauge cartridge that has your admiration currently. Just kidding. Sort of.What DAC do you have? Must we be kept in the dark?Hey T_bone, Hope you are coming to earth gently from your move. Tell me more abo...
Dec 28, 2011	MC versus MM. Which to choose. I am far from "done" in comparing MM to MC cartridges. I view this as a work in progress. I would also point out that MI cartridges and induced magnet (IM) cartridges have something to offer which may be unique with respect to both conventional MM...
Dec 28, 2011	MC versus MM. Which to choose. My dear audiophile friend, who is now too ill to have fun with this hobby, and I found out about HP's feet of clay early on, I think around issue #3 of TAS, when he went wild over the then new Harman Kardon solid state preamp (Citation 12, I think...
Dec 27, 2011	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? A small pause for peace on earth that lasted for one day, and then we are apparently back to the vintage Signet cartridge wars even before "feliz compleanos".I have never been happier with my audio system, and I have never had a system sounding th...
Dec 27, 2011	Clearaudio Master Innovation Assembly pics it's a beautiful piece of workmanship. Use it in good health.I am still trying to understand the drive system. You wrote, "The upper acrylic magentic platter is attached via a shaft to the record platter up top and they both ride (Float) on one ce...