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| Doe you enjoy your listening to music and your system more with others or alone? Used to prefer being an alone listener, but in the past last 3+ years I truly prefer listening with my gf (whom I started seeing around that time) beside me. This has pushed me to expand the optimal sweet spot a little beyond "head in a vice grip"... | |
| Graham Phantom Anti-Skate. Is it effective at all? Well this thread was resurrected lol. I’ve moved on from my Graham to a Fidelity Research FR64S arm for my Koetsu cartridges, and FR64fx for my back arm (the Graham sounded good but the 64S is notably better). On both of these FR arms, the anti-sk... | |
| The Hardest Naturally Occurring Substance on Earth Of course, some records are very rare and hard to find or extremely expensive in higher grades. I have no problem playing the occasional VG or even a G+ of an album I love until I can source a better one. I did that with a G+ Metallica "Ride the L... | |
| The Hardest Naturally Occurring Substance on Earth When you own an expensive stylus, it’s simply disconcerting to play records with deep scratches and gouges that will result in loud POPs at best, and groove jumps at worst. It SEEMS like that would induce more wear on the diamond - but is it enoug... | |
| What's the worst speaker or stereo set-up you've ever seen? This was close to 20 years ago, I forget which forum it was posted to. The proud owner had a 5.1 speaker setup, all Martin Logan, in a small bedroom-type room. The rear speakers were Martin Logan towers (smaller than the fonts, but still towers), ... | |
| 70’s rock pressings. Witch equipment deserve? Absolutely, it’s worth it. Gobs of amazing sounding masterpieces from that era. The MOFI / Nautilus / Half Speed / Direct to Disc / etc pressings aren’t necessary. Heck, I have lot of heavy metal 80’s - 2010’s on vinyl that sounds great! If a syst... | |
| Best tube preamplifier for under $15k ARC Reference 6 was, but now it's become the SE version at $18K. | |
| Large valve push pull monoblocks- impact/bass I’ll assume you’re using the LS50 and not the self powered LS50W. Yes, the Rogue amps have amazing slam to go with enough speed and clarity to keep up. They have actually been criticized for being too SS-like, and I can see that, though it’s more ... | |
| Expanding questions about tubes in a preamp I've had tube preamps that were too noisy for my system's downstream gain structure (both rush noise and microphonic feedback), and no amount of super special tube selection or tube dampers or HRS damper plates or expensive isolation stands did ja... | |
| Is there an ideal (ish) cartridge output? Getting a quiet result from a MC phono stage (or MM stage with SUT) and ~ 0.5mV cartridge is fairly easy to do. It gets increasingly difficult as your cartridge output falls below that. At 0.3mV you’re usually dealing with some discernible noise (... | |
| What is the order of importance of the parts of an analogue rig? 1. Cartridge, but you need to have it well matched to a proper tonearm that won’t cripple its performance. Or else you goofed. But always start at the transducer since they impart the most coloration and your sonic preferences here will be very pe... | |
| How much will you pay for an exotic cartridge.... Agree with millercarbon’s points. Hell, sometimes with the savings you can buy a SECOND, if you get ripped off on the 1st one or some reason, and STILL come out ahead. And I really think getting ripped off is pretty rare in this game (always shop ... | |
| VAC Preamplifiers I’ve tried both the Ren V and Master in my system. Sure, the Master is better - no argument there - it fixes the V’s various minor deficiencies in bass and dynamics, etc. But personally I found it hard to quantify the cumulative effect as night-an... | |
| Are There Any Risks to Your Stylus From Using Magic Eraser Think it’s just you and me Mulveling.Likewise I still use Onzow and brushes and Last fluid.I’m more likely to damage a stylus or cantilever when swapping carts than using ME. @uberwaltz Yep looks that way. Thanks dude. And I agree - sadly, at the ... | |
| Are There Any Risks to Your Stylus From Using Magic Eraser Most of us M.E. users also use it in conjunction with brushes and/or gel cleaners - all 3 in my case (I have both the Onzow and DS Audio gels). There is no "schmutz" to be accumulated unless you’re doing this totally wrong. Long bristle brushes sh... |