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| Upgrade from Technics 1200 MK2? $1-$1.5k budget VPI Scout Junior. | |
| Clean new recording? IMHO, you should always clean new (and/or used) vinyl before playing. Some disagree with cleaning "new" vinyl, but it never touches my tables/arms/carts without being cleaned first. | |
| Totem Model 1 Those are one of my favorite small monitor box speakers. I sold Totem for many years and always loved that model.If they are in good shape cosmetically and mechanically, $600 is a great price. | |
| Cables best suited to electrostatic speakers I have always found that electrostatic speakers work better with low inductance, low capacitance and low to medium resistance speaker cables.You can read HERE about this from Roger Sanders in one of his White Papers.I have sold (was a dealer) and ... | |
| Best solution Something like THIS should work well. There are many more out there. | |
| cable break in phono stage to preamp "Is keeping my phono stage on all the time adequate enough to break in the cable between the phono stage and my preamp?"No, you need to have a constant signal running through it. Do what Albert suggests. | |
| Anybody a high-end pen collector here? I have a really nice BIC pen that I like. I'll be sad when it finally runs out of ink and I have to throw it away :-) | |
| What is the answer? Forty-Two (42) | |
| How good are recievers these days? Belles 150A HotrodOdyssey StratosSonographe SA-250 or SA-400Parasound A-23All of these used are in your price range and will be much better than the Pioneer. | |
| Is this level of "needle talk" normal? Doug...what I so ineloquently was trying to explain, is that with a transducer you need the "mechanical" movement to be transduced. This would be exactly what you stated, (much better than I did). | |
| Is this level of "needle talk" normal? The cartridge is a transducer. It changes mechanical energy, (the signal) into electrical energy. The speaker is the other transducer which changes the electrical energy (signal) back into mechanical energy, so that we can hear it.This is quite no... | |
| SONOS CONNECT Sorry, I should have included the following link. If you scroll down the page a little, it tells you how to connect it to a wireless system:SONOS WIFI | |
| SONOS CONNECT From the Sonos FAQ page:With Sonos version 5.1, you can now connect Sonos to your wireless network directly, without using any Ethernet cables.Are there any settings I need to be aware of?Sonos communicates over a 2.4GHz home network supporting 80... | |
| Buying a used cartridge...tell us your tale. I have bought and sold MANY used cartridges and have never had a bad experience on either side. | |
| Tidal HiFi Streaming? I've had Tidal since the first day it was available. LOVE IT! I don't listen to classical and have found almost everything I've ever searched for.FANTASTIC sound quality too. |