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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, I have no basis to critique subwoofers, so I take your word for the goodness of the HGS. Now that you tell me that the DD series take the signal in the digital domain, I would tend to agree that this is more of a home theater approach t... | |
| An evening with the Whest PS.30RDT Special Edition Thanks, Auxetophone. But are you agreeing that the parts quality for the upper end Whest phono stages does not seem to justify their pricing? (Prices in the US market are additionally inflated by the importer or distributor, apparently.) At the sa... | |
| An evening with the Whest PS.30RDT Special Edition Speaking of "the best tube unit(s)", has anyone compared the Whest to any one of those (e.g., Aesthetix, ARC Ref, Alaap, Einstein, Thor, etc)?My only theoretical beef with Whest is that I don't see where the cost of their upper end products is jus... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? DU, I think the HGS series, owned by Raul, has been discontinued. If you visit the Velodyne website, as I did last night, it is no longer mentioned. The DD series (15- and 18-inch versions) are still listed. The DDs are also servo controlled, so I... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, In principle, I do not argue with your opinion on the need or the usefulness of a subwoofer. My problem is that in practice, I have never heard an electronic crossover that did not add objectionable colorations right up into the midrang... | |
| Verdier Platine or Transrotor Fatbob I don't think Fatbob levitates the platter magnetically, so there's a difference. OTOH, with Fatbob you can have optional "magnetic drive" used by Transrotor. Both turntables are excellent from all that I have heard and read about them. (I have ac... | |
| Technics: PLINTHS: Dobbins, Porter, or Thompson? Azjake, To be fair, the Beat (Kondo?) is a complete new turntable. This is not to say that I am not envious; I heard the Beat at RMAF and was blown away. Anyway, the OP wants to know about plinths. Do you have a feel for the Dobbins' plinths vs th... | |
| Azimuth and the Fozgometer Rich, I don't think anyone has used the SoundSmith device except Peter Lederman and his alpha testers. | |
| Simon Yorke turntables-audiophile best value? Sheesh. | |
| Technics: PLINTHS: Dobbins, Porter, or Thompson? Cdk84, I don't know anything about the "Thompson" plinth, but you certainly cannot go wrong with either Albert's or Steve's plinth. You might just choose between those based on cost and availability. Albert has recently written that his plinth is ... | |
| Denon DP-59L vs DP-72L vintage turntables Horseface, If you can DIY, you can probably upgrade the function of your table for well under $50 by replacing the old electrolytic capacitors in the drive unit. For a few hundred dollars you could have it done professionally. It's my theory that ... | |
| AKG P8e cartridge coils are known to go bad ? Dear Storyboy, As I mentioned, the problem is usually in the body, which is why I conclude it may have something to do with fragile coil wiring. However, if you are interested in something lesser than the P8 body, I may be able to help. I've got a... | |
| AKG P8e cartridge coils are known to go bad ? Storyboy, I conclude there is "something" that goes bad with the AKG cartridges that must be uniquely related to their design, in agreement with Nandric, because there are a lot of AKGs for sale on ebay with "one bad channel" and "for parts only".... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I have never done anything like this, save to observe (as a child) that after you mess around with paper clips and a magnet, the paper clips become weakly magnetic themselves. So my experience is comparable to that of a cave man with fire. On the ... | |
| Direct Drive TT...vintage era....sleepers.... Violin, The Micro is an excellent set-up, but I would say that the value of that tonearm puts the combo out of the "budget" category for many, and the 505 is hardly undiscovered. None of this matters to your enjoyment, of course. |