noromance
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| Top vintage receivers vs. modern high-end equipment Agreed. Lose the receiver unless you really need a tuner. I run 1960s EICO HF35 monoblocs. Why? Because, given that I don't need power, they sound as good as the best I've heard. | |
| Phono Preamp @jrpnde Graham Slee or not to slee | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? @mijostyn If you're concerned about your tonearm skipping across the LP when walking around your music room, we have bigger problems than initially interpreted! | |
| Phono Preamp Definitely upgrade your turntable. Your rig is begging for a classic idler and a tube phono. However, some dedication and skill is required to go that route. However, the rewards are far greater than the cost of the parts. Do you have a budget? Do... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Emma Kirkby - Portrait Of Emma Kirkby (L'Oiseau-Lyre 1982) | |
| Linn LP12 I channel louder? It the table absolutely level?Swap the cartridge leads. If that changes it, then there’s an issue with alignment or the cartridge itself. Check azimuth. Sometimes, it just might just be the way it is with that specific cartridge and not much you c... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @tomic601 I saw Paul Simon perform Graceland in London back in 1990 ish. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @tomic601 From Roy Halee the engineer on Graceland:"The amount of editing that went into that album was unbelievable," Halee asserts. "We recorded everything analogue, so it sounded really good, but without the facility to edit digital I don't thi... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I thought Graceland was digitally recorded and edited then mixed down to 30ips tape... so DDA? | |
| Linn LP12 I channel louder? Tonearm bias (anti-skate)? | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? I brought up the idea on another thread, where a poster was arguing against idler drive, that belts flex constantly at a micro level according to dynamic load causing a type of distortion or modulation of the signal. Non-elastic materials may prov... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw Uriah Heep - Firefly (Bronze 1977)Uriah Heep - High & Mighty (Bronze 1976) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Charles Lloyd Quartet - A Night in Copenhagen (Blue Note 1983)Wonderful live recording with lots of delicate piano details. Deep soundstage with good audience vibe. Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs (Harvest 1970)Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane &am... | |
| can someone answer me this..... I am probably not qualified to say too much on speaker cables as mine are only 24" long with bare wire ends.I used run Romex. Then I tried pretty expensive solid silver ones which sounded worse even after 2 weeks permanently on. In a direct compar... | |
| Tube Failure question Quad of Tung Sol 7581A for around $100 will sort you out. Search this forum for more info. |