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| A Not So Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Tonearm.... Steve posts lots of pics of his work on his Facebook VAS page, and it’s pretty impressive. If I ever need to try 3rd party re-tipping services I’m definitely going to him first.Sorry to hear your story, I had a Koetsu Onyx lose its stylus and know... | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Preamp = emotionless? Wow I didn’t realize the PrimaLuna preamp uses such a large heap of 12AU7. I’ve had 3 or 4 amps & preamps that use these tubes, and every time the 12AU7 has ended up seeming like the major bottleneck in system performance. I tried some of the ... | |
| Maximizing VPI Prime Performance You have one amazing set-it-and-forget-it table in the Cosmos, and you’re trying to chase that performance with a much lower level, tweak-of-the-day VPI? I’m not sure why you decided to abuse yourself in this manner :(Those 2 companies have polar ... | |
| ModWright PH 9.0 vs Manley Chinook MkII Often I prefer the sound of a good SUT to a JFET MC stage (Herron VTPH-2A, Sonic Frontiers Phono 1 in use here) - but the pairing of cartridge-to-SUT can be even more specific than that of cartridge to phono stage. Going by online images, the Modw... | |
| Turntable isolation platforms Perhaps look at the Townshend audio spring isolation platforms? All of those type of affordable "audiophile racks" - Pangea in your case, Lovan Sovereign and VTI (ugh) in my past - are gonna make you have a bad time when you place a turntable with... | |
| Phonostage Advice Very cool - though not an unsurprising result for those of us who have done the endless mixing and matching of analog gear. It's clear you have a nice vinyl front-end which deserves better than that under-powered phono card. It's probably worthwhi... | |
| Turntable Advice Needed Not having owned either brand, I’d go for the Feickert over VPI. You buy that Prime Scout, and then you blink, and BOOM it will be superseded by the "Optimus Prime Ranger Mk 8" and you’ll be running in place on their never ending treadmill of circ... | |
| How many times have you ... A lot of reissues suck, and it can be VERY frustrating dropping a lot of money to get somthing you'll NEVER want to play again. For example, I got suckered on the 200g DMM Rush remasters, ugh. Absolutely unplayable once you realize how superior th... | |
| What Ampliffier And Magico A3 Anytime I've heard Magico paired to VAC at my dealer's, it's been excellent - extremely musical. Any of the current VAC lineup, including the integrated, are fantastic. | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Preamp = emotionless? @paulcreed I had a BAT BAT VK5i a long time ago, with a similar experience - based on reputation I thought I was in for an amazing preamp listening experience, but it definitely was NOT a joy to listen to. Tried tube rolling, including Tung-Sol 58... | |
| Question on phono input noise levels That hiss is normal noise from a phono stage. Be thankful you don't also have a hum or buzz from a grounding issue to track down. For a low or medium output MC cartridge you can try the combination a step-up transformer with a phono stage in MM mo... | |
| Koetsu black, lacking bass His Magnify arm is a hybrid magnetic bearing (not as bad as the fully magnetic Clarify, but still), so I’d be wary of adding mass to that system (e.g. the tail wags the dog). Koetsu seems to like high mass AND rigid bearings, AND I haven’t had goo... | |
| Turntable recommendations Second the SOTA recommendation - especially in this price range you're looking at a nice Nova VI or Cosmos. Get it in an exotic wood of your choice and you'll love it for life. | |
| Koetsu black, lacking bass That doesn’t sound right for a Koetsu, even fresh out of the box. I personally didn’t have stellar results with the Clearaudio pivoted arms and Koetsu (Jade on a Universal 12” arm), but I’d still suspect something else going on, like the phono sta... | |
| Oracle Origine MkII or Music Hall mmf-7.3? With the MMF you’re just getting another ProJect build - and they’ve never really impressed me. My dealer carries ProJect and occasionally has in a mid-line MMF - I’m simply not impressed with the painted MDF planks sandwiching sorbothane dots, an... |