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| Beatles Reissues on VINYL Finally For the vinyl purists out there, isn't it true that vinyl that comes from digital still has the problems associated with digital, and in fact is digital played with a needle? This is like the old AAD cd's only put back on vinyl. It's fake vinyl. T... | |
| Beatles Reissues on VINYL Finally Yawn, yawn, yawn.Beatles on vinyl mastered from PCM. what the vinyl loving world does not need. most of us have multiple pressings of all these albums and don't need another.this is not a comment on the sound, which i expect to be pretty good, may... | |
| Replicant 100 stylus longevity - truth or myth? Great to have the input from an actual user!i've owned 3 A90's, and now own an Anna.i did compare one of my low hour A90's to a friends (a tonearm designer who plays his all the time) high hour one (well in excess of 1000 hours) and no difference ... | |
| Wave Kinetics NVS Turntable - Stereophile Review David,above you mentioned how much you liked the SME 30 when you heard it. i agree it's a fine turntable. you see used one's with an SME arm in the 'around' $15k + or - range frequently. you could do much worse than buying one of those, adding a c... | |
| Wave Kinetics NVS Turntable - Stereophile Review David,i have 10,000 reasons (my Lp collection) to optimize vinyl. however, no doubt that top level vinyl performance does require a sizable commitment. and simply the physical commitment to the space, fine-tuning and energy to change Lps is not fo... | |
| Isolation Devices: Any Good Ones? i'm a big fan of the Wave Kinetics A10-U8's under components. i use 8 sets of 4 in my system. some light-weight gear i use 3 underneath, my 60 pound amplifier i use 6 underneath. lowers the noise floor, increases detail, transient snap, and image ... | |
| What is approx. percentage of your total i had 12K or 13K Lps total a couple years ago; now i'm around 10k Lps. i culled the herd of fluf and crud that came with a few collections i acquired.there are approx 3k Lps upstairs in the rec room that are somewhat organized but not cleaned or l... | |
| I just heard the Wilson Alexandria XLF's Wednesday i'm going to bet that the tendancy to extra subs on the XLF's or X-2's have as much to do with amplification as to additional drivers, how do you get punch at the point of attack?....and the fact that the X-2 and XLF are a ported speakers.extra su... | |
| TriPlanar Tips i'll echo Pradeep's experience. the Triplaner is a fine tonearm. i owned it when i acquired the Talea 1, and even initially when i had the Talea 2. as good as the Triplaner was, both Talea's were better at most everything. it's not that the Tripla... | |
| Evolution Acoustics new triple run speaker cables hi David,you are welcome.no; i've not directly compared the EA Triple run to any other cables other than the double run.as far as Evolution not having the Triple run on their website, i have a different perspective. Kevin builds all the cables as ... | |
| Evolution Acoustics new triple run speaker cables i have the triple run Evolution Speaker cables that did replace the DRSC and the TR is quite a noticable degree better. and the DRSC were better than my long term reference the Transparent Opus MM2 speaker cables.i recieved the TRSC's in late May ... | |
| Audio Desk Record Cleaner-Anyone buy one yet interesting points, i don't know the science about ultrasonic cleaning so i can't comment on the still water and the heated water points, but i can tell you that records much prefer blow drying to vaccuum. vaccuum adds static, blow drying does not... | |
| Anyone who has had a VdH Colibri for over 1000hrs i've owned 7 Colibri's. the last one 4 years ago.one of them was stellar, the rest were teases. like the woman who has too high regard for herself, some days it's heaven, other days 'not so much'.and yes, on some pressings wonderful, others it was... | |
| Audio Desk Record Cleaner-Anyone buy one yet i own both types of machines. you can make a good case for either as the 'only' one; or make a strong case to 'need' both types.i made the same case on another thread that Norm makes about the fact that either machine likely improves on the other ... | |
| WATT PUPPY 3/2 WHAT AMPLIFIER?TWEETER wow! a dormant 11 year old thread brought back to life....and there is my 11+ year old response.what a hoot! |