mammothguy54
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hi guys, I’m back from my travels to Washington and visit with Daedalus Audio for speaker evaluation. By the way, some really great music selections on this page. I look forward to spinning vinyl again, tonight. I stayed with a friend at Lake Ste... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Then again, Jim's thought makes even more sense. The untouched groove area is a nice surface for a deeper tracking stylus. Oh, this hobby...er, rabbit hole! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Thanks guys. I hope for good things. I agree with Brian, the mono cartridge with a conical stylus would better serve mono records. At the most, an elliptical stylus. I could be wrong, of course. My longer-term plan is for a second tonearm, on... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? My postponed trip from last week to Washington state is on for tomorrow. I am staying with a friend in Lake Stevens and will be at Daedalus Audio on Thursday. I sure hope those speakers live up to everything I anticipate for them. If so I will ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Steve, I have a 40+ year relationship with the owner of Upscale Audio. He provides me with very substantial discounts so I really try to stick with the brands that he carries. I believe that Feickert Analog is the best of his turntable assortmen... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Steve, no, my Aretha's Gold is not the MFSL. It's an Atlantic reissue. I would have bought the MFSL issue if I could have found it. And yes, I am still listening to the "possibly still defective Delos". I have numerous SQ issues from my analog... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Aretha Franklin "Aretha's Gold" Excellent music, but rather poor SQ on this album. Too bad... The Allman Brothers Band "Brothers and Sisters" From my newly acquired treasure trove. Cleaned up very well, sounds rather good. Killer album! ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Steve, no not a "test pressing" as you figured out. But certainly one of the early pressings off of the master as this is the first group of discs available, before pressings available to dealers after April 13, 1983. Note; that was at my very f... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I believe that I told this story some months ago. I worked in the CE industry for 42 years until retiring 3 years ago. I met a ton of people along the way and one of them was the General Manager/Sales Director of Shefield Lab at the time, Mr. An... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @bslon I had a similar experience. Having purchased my first hi-fi system in 1973, then in 1976 I went to a small HiFi retailer in Claremont, CA (Omega High Fidelity Music Systems) and they put on that album for me. I upgraded my turntable setu... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Awesome! I have the Sheffield-Lab 2 issue. Have owned it since first released. In perfect condition, of course. I'll just have to play it this weekend. Thanks guys. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @nicks25 Congrats on the cartridge and enjoy it in good health. I see that you have an Accuphase amp. My biggest system, back in the late '70s and into the late '80s was a stack of Accuphase. I had a T-100 tuner, a C-200 preamp, and two of the... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Just returned from the airport. I received an email from Lou (owner of Daedalus) that he came down with the flu. He had a test for COVID and that was negative, fortunately. Just the flu. So, we postponed my visit for 1 week. I guess that I'll... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Thanks Brian. Yes, I am somewhat convinced but still need to hear them. My present Dynaudio speakers (bought them about 15 months ago) I bought without auditioning them. I got them for dealer cost, brand new model, but they just didn't float my... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Wallpaper stripping completed! Just finished patching all of the wallboard issues. Applied the knockdown texture. Begin painting soon. Whew! Tomorrow I am flying to Washington (state) to spend a day at Daedalus Audio. Owner, Lou Hinkley, is ... |