mario_b
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| Is a good Cermic Cartridge an Oxymoron? Elartford,Google first, ask second should have been my course.Seems that Micro-Accoustics was making truly high end ceramics up until 1984 (well, high end back then)- with their top-of-line 830CSA Electret @ 10Hz-30kHz +/- 0.75dB freq. response an... | |
| Is a good Cermic Cartridge an Oxymoron? Thanks Eldartford,If I can't make the MuMetal work, maybe I'll revert to a 78 player.- Mario | |
| Anyone making plinths? WTB Jejune,It seems to my eye that Vint_Ages plinth uses perfect inlay accents for its top. Imagine how the birds eye maple would look just plain-janed, cross-grained. In addition, I know from studying the details of this plinth that its hidden mo... | |
| Arturo Toscanini Beethoven LPs Hi Marc,If you've gone around the curve with Texasdave's recommendation of Szell/CSO, a bit further on you'll also find a nice sounding/well-performed set with Solti/LSO, London ffrr. The 9th in this set is stand alone glorious.(Admittedly partial... | |
| Good Grief. Another Tchaikovsky already. Hi TexasDave,As a youth all I had was the Nathan Milstein version from my father's collection - or a borrowed copy of Stern from the library. When later I heard Heifetz, I realized just how many doublestops those two journeyman had scratched out.E... | |
| Lenco L70 need help Audiodar,I have a Bogen Presto L-70 headshell that I'd be happy to send you for the cost of shipping.However, it comes in close to the better part of what an entire Sonus Formula IV tonearm weighs. This is pillbox!Would you consider re-arming this... | |
| Vinyl lovers--in case you haven't tried this yet The question that has often nagged me as I cautiously collect mono vinyl in hopes of landing a decent cart one of these days is how far back do I take this? If as some contend that the breakthrough year for high fidelity was 1953 with Mercurys L... | |
| Reel to reel deck -Talk me in or out of buying Kublakhan,Go-4-it. And Go-2-it. Ive been playing Reel-to-Reel tapes for 40 years. My playing time is 5% cd, 45% vinyl and 50% RtR tape. I buy decks, fix em and get my friends reeling. TEAC as a company actually still supports its decks in the fi... | |
| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? Doug,Thanks for taking the time to explain this. I'm digesting - my mind coming to grips with what you're saying like a cold engine.Instead of thinking and postulating, I'll apply these test that you have been good enough to provide in actual hand... | |
| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? Hi Doug,It just seems so much like the tail wagging the dog to my sense of geometry, albeit novice in these matter that it is. How is it that an arm manufacturers mount and overhang and therefore its designed tracking arc get trumped by a protrac... | |
| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? DougDeacon,A way one might keep optimal Rega mount distance and align ala Baerwald may be to relegate any protractor that constrains to the dustbin. I suspect that the one size fits all approach to some protractors that are not arm specific might ... | |
| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? Hi Overhang,The overhang for the Rega 600 is 15mm. That is, your Shelter should be mounted on the Rega where stylus would extend 15mm past the center the spindle on line with the pivot (center mount). Unless the mount of your Rega is loosened, she... | |
| Recommendations for sound engineers Don't foget Charles Gerhardt who often teamed with Wilkie and was very prolific on, of all labels, Reader's Digest. Julliard trained pianist, turned sound engineer, great conductor too. Much of his work is currently reissued on Chesky. | |
| Received new Primaluna preamp and amp Hi Sani,This may be all relative to "hearing what I want to hear", but after six months with the Luna Prologue II, I find it outputs bass with a great deal of authority. But this is not the omni-present booming slam that one might find in raw outp... | |
| New Prima Luna Amp In Distress / Me Too It’s been a few months since the original faulty tube has been swapped out with a replacement KT-88 sent by Upscale Audio. Things sailed along smoothly until last week when another stock KT-88 tubes began popping and demonstrating the same problem... |