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| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Great post Raul. As always there are many roads to Rome. No one cartridge design has been shown to be significantly better. It is all in the execution. I have heard several very convincing MC and MI cartridges. MM seems to lag a little bit behind... | |
| Benchmark Media Systems. Right or wrong @audphile1 It is a daring position for a manufacturer to take. Good for them! It takes guts and conviction to describe the situation as accurately as they do. If more legitimate audio companies would state their convictions so distinctly audiophi... | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... @grislybutter There is no sound stage at most live concerts. @patrickdowns Nice beginning! I was born in 54. Up till age 4 my dad had to play me records on his Zenith console system. I could not reach the top. I pestered him constantly to play... | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... @patrickdowns Not to toot my own horn, but I have been doing this since 1958. @mikelavigne I look at it from a different perspective. I want to hear exactly what is in the recording. I do not want to hear any editorialization by the room. As fa... | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... @polkalover The most difficult aspect of audio system performance is imaging. There have been many articles written on the subject. Relatively few audiophiles have heard a system image at the state of the art. Most systems can image well to a poi... | |
| Advice needed on upgrading tonearm for VPI SCOUTMASTER Most arm/cartridge combinations have two resonance frequencies, vertical and horizontal. Unipivot arms have three adding torsional. This is a seriously bad deal if you are a cartridge. The makers of the two best quasi unipivot arms, Graham and Bas... | |
| 300B SET Amp driving Wilson Sabrinas @ghdprentice Experience tells you what is acceptable and what is not. Ears ringing is never acceptable. That is natures way of warning you, you have gone to far. Most of us music lover, concert goer types have made the mistake of going to a concer... | |
| Should Speaker Manufactures provide a Frequency Response Graph? @seanheis1 It is rare now for speakers to have a 5 dB anechoic amplitude error except at the very ends of the audio spectrum. On the other hand early room reflections can cause errors over 10 dB. I had a window adjacent to the right channel speake... | |
| Think I ruined stylus That should not ruin your stylus. Try cleaning it with 50 alcohol in water with a soft brush. | |
| Do you think you need a subwoofer? @mke246 Great bass always brings a huge smile to my face, it is the part that makes you want to get up and dance. | |
| Turntable Advice on Hum/Brands @eddieboy713 Rega wires their tonearms with a 3 wire system, most use a 5 wires system (balanced). This is the only difference. In terms of performance I do not think you can find a better performing turntable at that price. If you wanted to jump... | |
| Burning-in as a non-linear experience Your experience mirrors mine, but it has nothing to do with the physical state of the equipment. Our systems sound better or worse depending on our moods. When I am on a really foul mood I don't even turn it on. I know it will sound terrible. This... | |
| Measurement Bias One of the reasons this endeavor is so entertaining is that there are no standards for what a stereo system should sound like. It would be impossible to make them. The same speaker in three different rooms is three different sounds. Three differen... | |
| Records not stored vertically for decades The big problem with stored records is mold growth on the vinyl and jacket which produces that mildew smell. This is worsened by humid environments. As long as you do not smell mildew and the records were not subject to heat you will be ok. If the... | |
| Old Victrola People forget the opposite end of the performance. "Electric recording" was not invented until 1926. I have a 1925 picture of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five playing into a huge horn terminating to a diaphragm holding a needle to a spinning lacquer. L... |