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| Disagreements and Conflicts between Audiophiles have we lost our brotherhood and maturity? Mea Culpa! Mea Maxima Culpa! Didn't realize I was going political! Just trying to inject a little levity. Thanks for pointing that out! | |
| Disagreements and Conflicts between Audiophiles have we lost our brotherhood and maturity? Calvinj, surely, you are not reaching this conclusion just now! This country has been seriously and sharply divided for at least the last decade, if not more. The loss of civil discourse has been AWOL for quite some time now. What whart and som... | |
| When to change a cartridge? P.S. FWIW, this is what I use to keep track of stylus/cartridge play hours: StylusTimer (Stylus Timer) | LP GEAR All you have to do is get into the habit of remembering when to turn it on and off. Even so, a few seconds or minutes missed, here... | |
| When to change a cartridge? This is a great post & thread! Another big thank you to viridian for that vinyl press link on stylus wear! I was under the impression that 1000 hours was about right for a Micro-Line diamond stylus like the MoFi Ultra Tracker MM. However, s... | |
| Who's winning? The Cambridge English dictionary defines "audiophile" as: "a person who is very interested in and enthusiastic about equipment for playing recorded sound, and its quality". In order to get there, I think one first starts at becoming a lover of m... | |
| Dusting gear and turntable @dwette thanks for the lead. However, 400 bucks for a dust cover? Probably more for custom jobs? If you're handy and have the appropriate tools, you can buy plexiglass panels from a building supplies store, cut 'em down with a glass cutter and ... | |
| Dusting gear and turntable FWIW: I HATE dusting! It's a thankless job! However, when necessary, I use a vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter. Since the late 70s, however, I've been in the habit of using dust covers to entirely cover my TT, amp and CD transport when not in ... | |
| My Analog Journey - Opinions Sought I've done serious seat-time with state-of-the-art digital source equipment (i.e. streaming & CDs) and relatively affordable good quality analogue source equipment (i.e. non-Mikey Fremer astronomically priced TTs; phono stages; carts; etc.) a... | |
| Modular LP record storage suggestions @howardlee I have several hundred vinyl albums in my collection and searched high & low for a cost-effective storage solution. My advice on this would be to speak with a local carpenter about building either 6' or 7' bookcases that could easi... | |
| System Advice @aarongreenb You say you love those speakers. What amplification have you used with them, so far, that make you love them? I'm not familiar with that particular model of Totem speakers. However, those I have spent serious seat-time with I've fo... | |
| What actually determines volume power? Is it watts? First and foremost, it would be helpful to know if the OP has ever undergone an audiometry evaluation and what the results were. | |
| Is it the gear or the ears? Absolutely hilarious! Thanks for sharing! Reminds me of a cartoon I saw years ago, likely in a magazine catering to audiophiles. The premise, as best I can recall, was an audiophile coming into the proverbial local high-end shop to have his amp... | |
| Tone Arm Lifter Another vote for the Audio Technica AT6006R! Quality manufacturing, reasonably priced and lifts your tonearm gently. There are cheaper or less expensive alternatives that lift a tonearm but do so very abruptly. I wouldn't trust those. My fear ... | |
| YOUR AUDIOPHILE JOURNEY WHEN DID IT START AND HOW DID YOU GET TO YOUR DREAM SYSTEM? As a very young kiddo in the 50s, I listened to my aunt's tabletop record player and, later, as a young teen, to my parents' Grundig console. However, I would say the audiophile bug bit me in 1971, after listening to a high school friend's 2 chan... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers It's obvious, to me, that this Chief Engineer of Thorens, at that time, was doing nothing other than damage control, to cover up a significant engineering design fault. If the tolerances between the platter, record and TT dustcover were so tight ... |