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| Help on Linn Ittok Tonearms Good, knowledgeable advice from Lugnut. I am in the process of buying an Ittok LV II (indeed, likely with a silver tonearm cable). My own philosophy when it comes to fragile analog equipment like tonearms, especially one that is going to be a numb... | |
| Should you use cleaner on your stylus? I'll have to check out Mr. Clean. Right now, silly putty on a coin (Canadian Loonie)is working well for me. | |
| smaller speaker suggestions Go listen to some Cremona Auditors if you can, which your wife may find attractive. They can be had used with stands at times for as low as 3k. They sound great in a small room like yours (a large room is a different story). For a different though... | |
| Who Was Your Favorite One Hit Wonder "Radar Gun" by the Bottle Rockets. | |
| speaker with high WAF I second the vote for Sonus Faber. I find the Cremonas beautiful and sonically great. If you are willing to look at a bookshelf, in a smaller room the Cremona Auditors are killer for the price and look great with their custom stands. In the right ... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Pat:Thank you for your kindness in responding to my questions with sound, knowledgable advice. Your goodness shines through in your posts. My thoughts are with you at this very difficult time.Chris | |
| Arcam CD-33T FMJ vs Rega Jupiter 2000 I'm sorry you didn't get more timely responses to this, but I need to go on record as strongly disagreeing with the previous post. The CD-33 is fairly uniformly considered superior to the Jupiter 2000. The Rega Planet was a great player, but Rega ... | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? In my family we drive 1999 Honda Civics - good, reliable transportation. Once I am done upgrading my hi-fi, remodeling our house, and buying all the furniture my wife wants, I'll worry about cars. After I first get a car for my wife that she wants... | |
| Upgrading Arcam CD73 to CD93? A couple of more points. If you like your CD 73, you should know that the CD 92 (until this year the most recent model in the CD 90 series) has the same DAC as the FMJ. The main differences (though hardly insignificant)are in the power supply and ... | |
| Upgrading Arcam CD73 to CD93? Well, my experience is not unlimited by any means, but I would recommend you start by listening to an FMJ CD 33 at your local Arcam dealer. This is the best Arcam has to offer, but will give you a very close idea of what you would be getting with ... | |
| Upgrading Arcam CD73 to CD93? I started out a few months ago with a CD 82, which I thought was significantly better than the CD 73. I was thinking about upgrading to the CD 93, which my dealer said would cost around $600. (I ended up buying a used Linn Genki instead.) You prob... | |
| How Good Can Digital Get? Lazarus28:Peace and happy listening. By the way, your username has an abstract-cool kind of thing going on. Mine is unimaginatively composed of my last name and initials. Now that maybe is something to analyze. :) | |
| Wadia think about expensive CD Players ? Eusmani:Welcome to Audiogon - I am relatively new here myself. But as one who came into this hobby with exactly the same assumptions as you about there being relatively small differences in digital playback, and placing the highest priority on spe... | |
| How Good Can Digital Get? Lazarus28:Well, Im a psychiatrist, so I suppose I should never object to someone introducing the possibility of psychology influencing audio perceptions, which it of course does. But I must say, having some basic understanding of my own inner wor... | |
| How Good Can Digital Get? The other day I was listening to some speakers at my favorite audio shop. This was through 50K worth of electronics, including the 20K Linn CD 12. Although I was supposed to be paying attention to speakers, the only thing that kept running through... |