mepearson
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| Is MOFI L. Ronstadt Prisoner in Disguise better? MOFI has always been "hit or miss" in my experience. The worst piece of sonic dreck I have heard lately from MOFI is John Lennon's "Imagine," but that maybe how the damn thing was recorded. Just because it says MOFI doesn't mean it is going to be ... | |
| How good is vk-p3 phono? I briefly owned the BAT VK3I preamp that had the phono board. I thought the preamp in total was horrible in my system and I had it tricked out with some cool tubes from Kevin Deal. My brother drove up from Louisville to hear it and he wanted to ta... | |
| Garrard 401 vs. 301? Thanks David. Was the platter and bearing you used for both tables from the 301 or 401?Mark | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Frogman, I agree that the ET-2 sounds outstanding which is sort of what prompted me to start this thread (and I do think I had mine set up correctly which is no easy task). However, as I said previously, Dertonarm has inspired me to give pivoted a... | |
| Rhea Noise Something that everyone here needs to understand is that whenever you use a pure tube signal path as a gain source for low output MC cartridges, there will be noise compared to either a fet/tube hybrid gain stage or a pure SS gain stage. The trade... | |
| Stand out phono stages Did I miss it or did someone leave Counterpoint off this list? The SA-9 is as hard to find as sasquatch. The phono section built into the SA-5.1 will simply smoke most of what is out there (not to mention the killer line stage). In this day of lin... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? This has been a most interesting thread. I started this thread off by saying that I thought linear tracking arms sounded better than pivoted arms that I had been used to. I still think my humble ET-2 sounds outstanding. However, in the interest of... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? I am the original poster and I don't think I have "given in" too soon. Rather, I am open to buying and listening to a pivoted tonearm that is considered to be very good if not maybe even great (and of course that is always debatable as well). I ha... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Well, after starting this thread and reading everything everyone has written, I have decided to give pivoted arms another shot. After numerous emails with Dertonarm, I have decided to buy a Fidelity Research FR64s tonearm. I know Raul thinks the A... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Anyone know someone who has a Fidelity Research FR 64s for sale? | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Raul-Does the AT tonearm have provisions for anti-skating? I couldn't see it on the picture.Does anyone else have any experience with the AT tonearm? | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Raul-you are right. The Audio Technica is one humble looking tone arm. Outright fugly in fact. | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Well Darkmo, I have a purpose-built dedicated audio room. My room is roughly 16' W x 23' D with 9' ceilings. It does have an L shape towards the back of the room where the width opens up another 5' or so. The front half of my room has extensive ro... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Dertonarm-Thank you for your very well-reasoned response. You obviously have an abundance of experience with linear tracking arms and therefore it's interesting to hear your viewpoint.I have heard pros and cons for 12" arms with the cons mainly ad... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Well Raul, I own a system that "can play clean in that bass frequency range." My speakers are the Definitive Technology 7000SC which are rated down to 11 Hz. They have a 14" sub in each speaker (with two 14" passive radiators in each speaker)with ... |