mijostyn
Responses from mijostyn
| Some cartridge recommendations The old cartridge is more than likely past it's prime and also I would worry about stylus wear. It would be a good idea to have it examined and possibly rebuilt. HOWEVER, the MC 10 has a stupidly low output and you are certain to have a poor signa... | |
| Any Vertere Acoustics owners out there that could provide feedback on the Super Grove? @woots I had never heard of it , but I reviewed the design and am happy to report that it ticks off the most important design features necessary for optimum performance. It is a neutral balance design which means it's VTF will not change with el... | |
| Humminguru record cleaner @rvpiano Who am I to argue. | |
| Humminguru record cleaner There are any number of decent ways to clean a record. I am beginning to think it depends more on the fluid than anything else. The problem is how the record is dried. This is an instance where the original record cleaners were well researched. Th... | |
| To Focal or not to Focal I should qualify. Not because the are not decent speakers, they are. However they are stupidly expensive and you can get the same or better quality for much less. | |
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| How does bi-wiring work? Simple. It doesn't. I suppose in the instance where someone is using 24 gauge wire it might help, but using one 18 gauge wire would do exactly the same thing. This is a great example of lay intuition. The industry is perfectly willing to support i... | |
| Finally, Amazon Learns to Package Records. @bigtwin It may be a regional thing. I get plenty of bad pressings, but that is from everywhere. | |
| Finally, Amazon Learns to Package Records. @pindac I am all for supporting smaller companies but their selection is always limited and one thing I can say about Amazon is returns are as easy as it gets. I take the record, unboxed, with a bar code on my phone to a local Kohls, they scan t... | |
| Upgrade My Turntable - How Much Do I Need to Spend? @lewm If you have a noise that is say 24 dB down in the left channel and add the noise, 24 dB down, to the right channel, the combined volume will be 21 dB down or double the power, not double the volume. @whart Isolation is ALWAYS necessary... | |
| Lyra Delos Owners 2024 Fabulous! Go for it. Unipivot arms should not exist. I do not even care for the stabilized ones like the Graham and Basis arms. It is harder and more expensive to make a tonearm with proper bearings, the tolerances have to be so tight. A cartridge... | |
| Sonus Faber Sonetto V’s Thoughts Requested @dbeckwith Great. I was also at one concert that had more bass and volume than was necessary. 1983 or 4, Peter Gabriel at the Richmond Coliseum, a large outdoor amphitheater, the Summer home of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. Gabriel crammed a... | |
| Lyra Delos Owners 2024 Hi Tommy, What are you using for a tonearm? Is it a VPI unpivot arm? | |
| Sonus Faber Sonetto V’s Thoughts Requested @soix While they do weight only 50 lb. each, Sonus is very clever about their construction. They use the smallest horizontal dimensions possible and break up the wide sides by curving them. While they are not the heavy weights their upper lines ... | |
| Where to go next with the turntable @traudio , Which is not a whole lot. The lowest note on a 4 string bass guitar is 40 Hz. Play a 20 or 30 Hz test tone, turn the volume up and put your hand on the panel. You will feel it vibrating. That vibrating distorts everything else. If yo... |