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| Record Cleaning Machine - Loricraft PRC-3 vs. 4? i had the PRC-3 and now have the PRC-4 Dlx. in between i purchased an Audio Desk Systeme RCM which is automatic. i puchased the PRC-4 Dlx because the Audio Desk machine does not handle thin pressings very well and also does not do as good a job in... | |
| Sirius and Walker Unoear has twice in the last 10 days referred to the Olympos cartridge he purchased from me with the Rockport and made a point that i crashed it on the Rockport. 01-24-12: UnoearYes, the Olympos shootout never came to pass...wonderful cartridge, j... | |
| What's the best unipivot to arm ever made? Cousinbilly,not all 12" tonearms are created equal; but like they say, size does matter. :^)and FYI both the Talea 1 and Talea 2 are 10.5" arms, not 9.5". | |
| What's the best unipivot to arm ever made? Pentatonia,just over three short years ago, Joel Durand was an audiophile doing a DIY project of building a tonearm from scratch on a whim. he documented each step thru that process on a personal website/blog which at one point i looked thru. he t... | |
| What's the best unipivot to arm ever made? hi Lew,i've not heard Pete Riggle's arm; but it has been recommended to me. i understand Pete lives east of the mountains here in Washington State.i think that the Telos has something in common with other minimalist-out-of-box thinking tonearm des... | |
| What's the best unipivot to arm ever made? i like to use the term 'prefer' or favorite as opposed to best.i have not heard all Unipivots, but i've owned a fair number of tonearms and listened to most arms out there. my favorite is the Durand 12" Telos. which is also my favorite tonearm of ... | |
| Ripping SACD vs regular CD i have a few hundred ripped SACD's (dsd layer) i have on my server. they are stored and played back in dsd thru the Playback Designs MPS-5 and the USBX box. i also have a few 2xdsd files i play back in the same way; they were analog sourced.i also... | |
| Sirius and Walker my hope is that Unoear enjoys the Rockport completely. until a few days ago i was not aware of this mis-tracking problem.in that context, as the 8 year owner of that particular Rockport, i know that there are a few different issues which could pot... | |
| What reissue sounds better than the original? there are a number of Classic Records RCA Shaded Dogs 45 RPM reissues where the single disc 45's are better overall than original pressings. it's been years since i spent time doing this comparison. also; the Classic Records Led Zepplin 45rpm box ... | |
| MC versus MM. Which to choose. Lew,the 3 MM cartridges were the Ortofon M20FL you mentioned which i gave away, the Azden YM-P50VL, and the Empire 1080LT....both of which i still have.i was tempted to keep my Dobbins/Loricraft/Garrard 301 for 'messing' around with stuff like the... | |
| MC versus MM. Which to choose. Lew, regarding your question; Which of the MM/MI cartridges did you audition in your own system? Just curious. i'm at work, from my memory there was an Ortofon ML20 (or something like that), and an Azden of some sort, then an additional one. i gav... | |
| MC versus MM. Which to choose. everyone needs to be at the place where the their approach to enjoying vinyl playback is most enjoyable for them personally. and after my years of 'playing the field' of multiple tt's, arm's, vintage tt's, cartridges, etc......i've found that (at ... | |
| MC versus MM. Which to choose. i have purchased a few of Raul's highly recommended MM gems (thanks Raul) and found that they were absolutely wonderful for the dollars. vintage $200-$500 MM's that outperformed 10x as costly MC's. and even did things which were competitive with e... | |
| Muddy Waters Folk Singer the MoFi 33rpm is quite a bit better than the Classic Records 33rpm. i've used the MoFi 33 of Folk Singer as a reference disc for years.i don't have an original pressing to compare.i have not directly compared the QRP 45rpm to the MoFi 33rpm yet. ... | |
| Tweaks such as demagnetizers ionizers for lp's Doug,yes; i did post that my son-in-law, when wroking on his Phd in Physics 5 years ago, worked with eliminating 'surface tension' on the test gear he was using to get the degree of precision of measurement he needed. he told me that static energy... |