mijostyn
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| Best investment; cartridge or line stage? @elliottbnewcombjr Elliot, buy the time he can afford the phono stage the cartridge will have worn out. Phono stages last a long time and the great ones are not cheap. The cartridge is usually less expensive than a great phono stage so it is quick... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms Thanks @rauliruegas Mr Tonearm gd. Every one trait that falls off represents a compromise. Compromises are frequently worth it. That is a judgement call. @drbond , It is not how a tonearm sounds, it is how it works. The difference in sound qual... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms A good tonearm will not have any sound of it's own. It will limit discrepancies so as to minimize distortion into inaudibility. In dealing with the imperfect world of records. A tonearm must be designed in a certain way and have specific feature... | |
| Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz and Blues, Awesome! If you get a chance watch the Ken Burns documentary "Jazz" Very enjoyable. I think he spends a bit too much time with Lois Armstrong and give Bill Evans short shrift, but otherwise does a good job otherwise. | |
| Best investment; cartridge or line stage? The Rega P6 has a very acceptable arm. I think you have to think of this differently. A phono stage is a long term investment and can easily last decades. Cartridges are expendable devices, they wear out. If your cartridges still has some life in ... | |
| Crackle and hiss on some albums Welcome to the world of vinyl. If a record is real bad return it. However if one record is noisy all other records in that batch will; be noisy. You will notice that some brands are much better than others. If you do not take pristine care of your... | |
| Subwoofer speed is in the room, not the box @phusis The Sound quality at stadium concerts is in general awful, but that is not the point. The line arrays project power better which is what it is all about at these concerts. Exactly, the horizontal array of subwoofers forms a horizontal lin... | |
| Experience with adding super tweeter? @kraftwerkturbo I'm afraid that is lay intuition kraftwork. If I run that test blinded very few people over 50 would be able to tell the difference. Good tweeters have no problem getting to 20 kHz. Many of them go higher. Of all the super system... | |
| Townshend platform under digital component or amplifier ? You can't isolate speakers because you can't isolate sound. Assuming your speakers are on the floor, if you have a resonant floor and the speaker excites it then you have to dampen the floor with carpeting and/or stiffen the floor. Subwoofers th... | |
| VPI Prime Sig/Lyra Delos / Feedback ...help! @tommypenngotti, If you have sound in both channels nothing is shorting. Lyra absolutely does not like that arm. They specifically specify "a pivoted arm with rigid bearings or linear tracking arm." That does not include a unipivot for very good r... | |
| Vinyl rips - still worth it? It depends on what you are using to rip the records. Using Channel D's Pure Vinyl software on an Apple computer at 24/192 the rips are indistinguishable from the real thing. This is the program Michael Fremer uses. It is also ergonomically brillia... | |
| VPI Prime Sig/Lyra Delos / Feedback ...help! Tommy, you have several problems that lead to issues like this. Your turntable is not adequately isolated and Lyra cartridges do not like unipivot arms. You need an isolation platform tuned to 3 Hz or below and a gimbal pivoted arm, then the Delos... | |
| AR-XB. Is it worth a new motor? No it is not. In it's day the AR XA was a revelation. It blew away all those idler drive tables with it's suspension and belt drive. It's only major failing was a tonearm without an anti skate mechanism. In the day when Edgar Villchur designed it ... | |
| Subwoofer speed is in the room, not the box @phusis Thanx! I think it is more a matter of, you have this idea in your head and dam the torpedoes you are going to do it regardless. I certainly am that way. Each enclosure has 84 individual pieces. I have a total of 4 coats of polyester lacqu... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system @tlcocks A demo is always possible. @mahgister 1+ on the sanity issue. Beta testing the DEQX is already putting a strain on mine and it is only two days old. |