mijostyn
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| Cartridge Headshell Match Nick, the Benz is an intermediate compliance cartridge and your arm is on the heavier side. Go with the lightest headshell as you can always add weight. Much harder to take it away. Get the Hi Fi News Test Record. It has both vertical and lateral ... | |
| Bespoke Loudspeaker Company 1+ millercarbon. Uberwaltz, lighten up. There is nothing at all life threatening about any of this. I am really sorry you like old idler wheel turntables. Rumble away:) | |
| How Science Got Sound Wrong What happened to Curly? | |
| Bespoke Loudspeaker Company Waste of money. Just get him a replica Sony Walkman and he'll be happy as a lark. | |
| Best Way for my TT to reach my Pre-Amp!? Craig, yogi is right. Two choices. Move the turntable or get a phono amp preferably with a balanced output. | |
| Everything a crossover has to do ... Cross overs are electronic devises (bandaids) for problems inherent in dynamic drivers that can not be fixed (made reasonably listenable) any other way introducing a lot of other problems that make dynamic speakers unlistenable. Sounds like a Catc... | |
| The Doug Macleod appreciation thread Howlin Wolf, Smokestack Lightening. Crappy recording, the real deal.Get "Rockin Chair" Digitally fixed up so the sound is much better. A must in any serious blues collection. Watch some videos of his performances. The guy was a high wire act. Lo... | |
| Congratulations Atmasphere! I wonder. TACT made an amplifier that was essentially a power DAC. It took a digital signal and converted it to a PWM at I believe it was 9 mHz This was converted to analog in the output stage. Volume was controlled by raising and lowering the vol... | |
| What do you say to your audiophile friends who say you just listen to your equipment more People say, "gee, you really must like music." You bet. 90% of my listening is in my office to a pair of Sonus model 3's streaming away. At this moment Simon and Garfunkel are doing Mrs Robinson. "Most of all you've got to hide it from the kids." | |
| VPI's new "Vanquish" Ultra High-End turntable is a STUNNER! roxy, from a practical standpoint turntables are all about listening to records. There are much less expensive turntables that are going to do the job better than this thing. If you want to buy a statement turntable I think the Clearaudio Statemen... | |
| Which to Upgrade first? My Amplifier or Speakers Norman, I sounds to me like you qualify as being an Audiophile. Anyway,I think you need to set yourself a target system then go for the pieces of the puzzle when appropriate deals arise.The 20.7s with the Parasound JC-1 is a killer system but the ... | |
| Another Music Direct Catalog observation For sure Winnardt but the industry fought back with the Indies. Now everyone has their own label and the industry??????Music changed and became more... progressive which one either likes or not so much. Just look at the evolution of Radiohead or W... | |
| Upgrading speakers in HT/2 channel system Shows you how different people think. I vote for the Sonus Faber. It punches well above it's price point and easily has the best looking enclosure for the wife. It is the only speaker in your list that could be considered fine cabinetry. Only the ... | |
| remastered EMI pink floyd It all depends on how bad the original mixes were. The remixes of the early Zappa catalog are tremendous. Same for the early Zeppelin records and the early Pink Floyd records prior to Dark Side. By Dark Side they had gotten the Hang of it and were... | |
| If I were to replace my VPI Airies1 with a 4k or so budget? SOTA Sapphire.Mike |