noromance
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| Best Live Recording on LP Tom Paxton, Leonard Cohen, Donovan, Bread and Circus festival in addition to many already mentioned. | |
| Why the lack of Virtual System postings? Your post had me spending a few hours there! Not sure I noticed it was withering (which would be a shame). The variety of set-ups is amazing. Edit: just saw your kit. Wow. | |
| Herron VTPH-2 12ax7 Recommendations? Buy a pair of good used and matched Telefunkens and compare. If no likey, resell. | |
| What spinning on your turntable today and how does it sound? Side note. Check out KEXP radio's channel on YouTube to hear some wonderful contemporary music. | |
| What spinning on your turntable today and how does it sound? Zappa - Joe's Garage, Acts ii & iii (original 1979 'holophonic' pressing), Alright Jack - Home Service (great English old-school folk), Junior Wells with Buddy Guy - Hoodoo Man Blues (you can feel the smokey atmosphere). Can't beat vinyl, tube... | |
| Shopping for an integrated, advice s'il vous plait. Croft Integrated will see off all that other stuff. | |
| Pro-ject tube box DS sounds mushy in the middle Good. RTFM. ;-) | |
| Power conditioner help Try your rig without a PC. | |
| Pro-ject tube box DS sounds mushy in the middle Possibly. Did you lose a quality that you had with another phono amp? Or is this your first in comparison with your digital source? You could try brighter tubes like Electro Harmonix. What is your cartridge? MC settings could be incorrect. | |
| Great Stereophile article on a friend of mine, drummer Billy Drummond My dentist is Zach Pearlman. And I know a guy whose name is Mr. Taylor and... he is a tailor. | |
| Upgrading to an external Phonostages for my system Thanks for the update. Someone said tube phono preamps are not quiet. I have to respectfully disagree as long as it is well designed and the tubes are not faulty. | |
| CARTRIDGE WOES? I too use vintage gear. I am somewhat bemused by the original poster's reaction to donc55's prognosis. I believe he is spot on. Your turntables and tonearms are not up to the job. | |
| Questionable service at Soundsmith Peter, met you at the New York audio show in 2014 while you were demoing the excellent Straingauge cartridge in the VPI turntable. You were a gentleman as a bunch of us listened to some great music. Best wishes. | |
| cartridge cleaning? Not the stylus........ Someone asked about Magic Eraser. Let the stylus drop on the damped cue into the eraser. Then lift it using the cue. Repeat a few times. Do NOT move the eraser nor drag it over stylus as you could pull the diamond off. | |
| cartridge headshell screws. Replaced the aluminium bolts (into the Decca plastic threads) with brass ones on mine. Sounds better. I reverted back to be sure and it sounded awful. Way better with the heavier brass ones -with the bolts screwed upwards with nuts on top. |