noromance
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| Tonearm/Cartridge Combinations: What Do You Own (Or Have Owned) And Recommend? Jelco 850L and Decca Super Gold (on a modified 401)I have 3 of these arms with various Decca cartridges and they sound great. | |
| How many amps do you own? @cousinbillyl Can I be your audiophile executor?! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Beatles - Abbey Road (Anniversary Edition 2019)Very good but not great. Cymbals too recessed. The out-takes LP I heard was more enjoyable.Current 13 - Thunder Perfect MindJennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Billie Elish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019)This is great. A LOT of bass and it goes low. | |
| How many amps do you own? 2 sets of modified/updated EICO HF35 tube monoblocs.2 Croft 25R tube phono preamps.A 90 pound TVA1 in need of repair.A few solid state integrateds in boxes.T-amp with 5A PSU for PC. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Carol Kidd (Linn 1986)Always been a fav. Very Linn/Naim sounding. David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive (Virgin UK 1987)Great recording. Avant garde new romantic.Simply Red - Picture Book (Elektra 1985) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hey @slaw Yeah, I tested before and after on an album > SpinClean > US. There was a clear improvement with each cleaning with the US yielding an improvement like a new power cord etc. The new bearing is a revelation taking the 401 to a new l... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth and Ashes(Sounds so much better since I replaced the 401 bearing. The drive, bass plucking, the rhythmic drive is so on point. Rim shots, accordion buttons, his voice. I've seen them live and this is close to that.) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Parlophone 1967) | |
| Power regenerators vs conditioners Protect or make them sound better?The best way to protect is to install a whole house surge protector. Sound? A regenerator. But it depends on the equipment. I've had tube amps sound worse on battery-based power supplies than directly into the wal... | |
| Audio Truisms or Plinthy statements There are more layers in an onion than in a Jean Nantais Lenco. | |
| Audio Truisms or Plinthy statements Note that cables are the icing on the cake. ^ | |
| Quicksilver Mono 120 vs. Quicksilver V4 I find it weirdly disloyal in some way for you to have moved from Quicksilver after all those years. Did you compare them to the PL and decide against them? | |
| if you did buy the new schiit sol....... When I saw the Sol at AXPONA, the first thing I though was that with a unipivot and that fairly thick arm cable, they are going to run into problems. Maybe they could look at some thinner wire to ameliorate this. Also consider that with a Nag ... | |
| A brief review of 15 high-end speakers on home demo including B&W, Boenicke, Magico,Wilson Good stuff. I wish the audio mags did more of these shootouts. Great read and quite informative. |