mulveling
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| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? If you guys want to see something wild - check out these 2 video clips I made a couple years ago, with a VPI Aries 3, stylus in groove (at rest), and system on with volume set to "loud" listening level. This was my "energetic" problem room (small ... | |
| Tube Pre/ Class D Amp - Who has done it? By way of usual audiophile nonsense, I once had my VAC Master tube preamp ($30K) hooked up to a NAD M22 (nCore class D). It sounded great! Much MUCH better than with matching M12 digital preamp, which was comparatively awful. I even considered sti... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? @dwette Wow, that's an awesome find. Seems like a ridiculous bargain in this context. I've spent this kind of money on just a couple of CMS platforms, and they surely don't help solve problems in bass frequencies - which (I imagine) the Minus-K ... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? The Minus-K is extremely impressive because it has such a ridiculously low resonant frequency - like 0.5 Hz or less in one of the directions. So it's truly effective at full-range isolation. Watch some videos of it in action; it's like magic. A re... | |
| I am sad Email is notoriously spotty for communication. Even IF they saw your message, we’re all so inundated with emails and text messages these days - that we have a tendecy to ignore or "forget" about a certain percentage of them, even when we don’t rea... | |
| Analogue front end. You want more weight, scale and dynamics.Where do you start upgrading? And I’ve had the same FR64fx arm, with a few of the same cartridges, mounted across a couple SOTAs and a couple of the CA Innovation decks. Some of the same cartridges again mounted on VPIs, albeit with VPI’s arms - didn’t try and mount an FR ther... | |
| The $27,900 disappointment? Wilson Audio Watt Puppy 8 issues. "An amps ability to drive lower impedance loads has no relation to the amps quality." I can’t agree with this. The ability to drive lower impedance loads means that the power supply has to be up to the task. This would include such things as hea... | |
| Re-tipping a press-fitted stylus Joseph Long a.k.a. "Groovetickler" on Instagram, is the only one I’d approach stateside for any high-value / high-difficulty work. He’s shown some very impressive repair work on his Instagram history, across a HUGE range and number of cartidges. I... | |
| Analogue front end. You want more weight, scale and dynamics.Where do you start upgrading? Big +1’s to @lewm and @tomic601 here. Throwing more and more money to "upgrade" into increasingly exotic components isn’t the panacea you think it is. | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? mulveling, judging by your description Ortofon doesn't sound appealing. Do you like Lyra cartridges ? I actually did enjoy the Windfeld Ti and A90 - they're not completely dry & analytical, nor without their own unique charms. The Windfeld ... | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? Of course, I could not afford the setup that a 10K cartridge would require, but I have a question. What type of LP would be up to the task of producing such high quality sound? It seems to me that only the highest quality audiophile discs would j... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? I see. Are you also familiar with SME turntables ? @inna Nope. Their table are less common here in USA I guess, though the arms still get love. Think you'll be hard pressed to find 'philes who've had more than a few top tables, who are not a... | |
| Calculation verification please By normal convention "40/40" means 40 divided by 40, which is 1. Good point - division is not associative. Indeed I meant ((1 MEG / 40) / 40), same as applying the div operator strictly left-to-right without groupings. @sksos1 could you share... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? I really haven’t had any issues with woofer flapping on my Innovation Wood with the Universal arms. I do have it sitting on a HRS R3X isolation platform, with the LF feet factory tuned specifically for the turntable. I have a pair of REL S/510 su... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? I forgot to mention how the VPIs sound versus Clearaudio and SOTA. Aries 3, Avenger Ref. They’re darker sounding. Especially with the 3D and Fatboy arms (I honestly liked the late make metal unipivots). There is a bass-reinforcement effect that ca... |