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| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? @rauliruegas I can only talk about my experience and I do not have access to all those cartridges and never will. A boron tube may have a frequency response to 120 kHz, but the best a stylus can do is about 70 kHz. The best my ears can do is 16 ... | |
| Benchmark Media Systems. Right or wrong @jnovak Correct. There is no such thing as one amp for all. Amps have to be matched to the loudspeaker. @audphile1 If I blinded you you would never be able to tell the difference between most DACs. What recordings sound like in the studio can n... | |
| Benchmark Media Systems. Right or wrong @audphile1 Accuracy in electronics means conveying the original signal unchanged in any way except amplified. What musicians like in tube amps is the way they distort. The amp itself is a musical instrument. You like distortion and that is your bu... | |
| Hagerman Piccolo Zero: New transimpedance head amp @dover 10+ I think the better analogy would be a generator not a motor, but they are the same thing in reverse. I have a Channel D Seta L Plus. It can be used in both voltage and transimpedance mode. The Atlas SL has more gain and sounds better ... | |
| Worst Speakers Ever?? You have to spend serious money to get a really bad speaker. The worst speakers are the ones that cost a fortune and sound terrible. My two favorites are the Hill Plasmatronics and the Nearfield Pipe Dreams. @garebear They are junk when brand ne... | |
| For those familiar with Sonus Faber YES | |
| VPI Scoutmaster to HRX @tablejockey 1++ It is only a different look. You need to stay away from unipivot arms. I suggest a Kuzma 4 Point 9 along with the Phoenix speed control. If you want to make a big leap in turntable performance and not looks the Sota Sapphire will... | |
| Benchmark Media Systems. Right or wrong When I see people trying one piece of electronics after another searching for a better sound it generally means they are not happy with their loudspeakers. You buy an amp that drives your chosen loudspeaker well. The rest of the electronics really... | |
| Need help with phono cartridge selection Of the cartridges you selected I think the VM540ML and the 2M Bronze are best. If you can push a little harder the Goldring 1042 is a dynamite cartridge. It has a Gyger S stylus on a boron cantilever punching way above it's price point. It is the ... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? @rauliruegas I have talked recently about the Clearaudio Charisma which I have owned. It is a fun cartridge for rock and roll because it is very dynamic and has great bass, it is also dark, tilted towards the bass. The Voice is a better tracker an... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? @rauliruegas Correct, the SG sound's bright because it does not follow the RIAA curve accurately. That has nothing to do with the fact that it can not track well. I sat with Mr Ledermann for 2 hours discussing and listening to the strain gauge and... | |
| Can a power amp have too much power, risking damage to a speaker? @waytoomuchstuff That is exactly right. Too little power is more likely to do damage than too much, but there are some caveats that most audiophiles are aware off. With high powered systems it is stuff like dropping the tonearm on the record with... | |
| Listening position/speaker position @willyht your friend is FOS. Putting the listening position against a wall is the worst thing you can do. You have it right. Now you should find all the first reflection points and deaden them. You may want to try moving the listening position fo... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? @mke246 The Armstrong sounds great. None of my 78's sound that good. It sounds pretty much like the Caruso I have, all midrange. Are you using a pop and click filter? @dogberry Good for you. The Decca is a purely British view of the situation. Ni... | |
| Looking for advise and recommendations on a nice record cleaner. @pindac I have yet to see scanning electron microscope pictures of records cleaned by various methods. It is all assumption, all of it. Some is actually mythology. IMHO the best cleaning method is the one that is most convenient, fast and uses va... |