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| What is your experience with the Spin Clean? @jjbeason14 Unless SC has changed/updated their design, I believe they still use cleaning pads (i.e. microfiber pads, if I remember correctly). I've never used a SC. However, I have a Knosti Disco Antistat, which is basically the German version o... | |
| New take on CD vs Vinyl vs CD Too many variables for a valid or controlled A/B comparison here that would apply to anything other than the specific system cited and employed for this particular A/B comparison. For example, there are several ways to "digitize a vinyl record". N... | |
| The Impossible Has Happened I understand, appreciate and wholeheartedly endorse the skepticism in this regard. However, there are some reviewers I've followed and read over the decades whose opinion(s) or evaluation(s) of stereo toys I've come to trust. Sometimes, I've read ... | |
| Placement of subwoofers @dcpillai : I am certainly nowhere near an expert in subs or their placement. That being said, I have always found sound systems incorporating them, especially in a two-channel system, sound best when they are placed exactly between the left and ... | |
| What's up with the Rega Apollo CD player? That must explain why I thought it was so freakin slow in going about playing music after I inserted a CD when I spent some time with it! | |
| What's up with the Rega Apollo CD player? @hodu Why not just buy a good dedicated transport? | |
| Want to add vinyl to my system. Thought I'd add this ditty, for what it's worth. After several hours of serious seat-time with a Rega P3 equipped with a modest Ortofon 2M Blue + MacIntosh MA5300 + alternately, the MAC's Luxman integrated amp competitor (can't remember the model... | |
| Best Basic CD Player (no SACD, USB, etc.) @shutupuface; Like your handle! Had an aunt who used to say that all the time. I haven't been in the market for a "basic" CD player in 10 years or so. Back then, as I always do before buying anything of substance, especially HiFi, I did an awful ... | |
| Advice for a new analog system @ftrot : I haven't read through this entire thread but thought of these two cents. Firstly: for the kind of dough you intend to spend I would strongly encourage consultation with competent, trustworthy experts regarding system synergy. Secondly: ... | |
| Vinyl - One Word - WOW!! Couldn't agree more with the fact that master tape to vinyl recordings are the next best thing to being there live! I've got hundreds of good vintage pressings from the 60s & 70s in my collection and a few from the 50s & early 80s. The new... | |
| Want to add vinyl to my system. I was just about to pull the trigger for a Rega P6 with an Ortofon 2MM Black a few years ago but then opted for a MoFi Ultradeck+M at the last minute, instead. Don't regret it for a second! Many of the reviewers I read prior to making this move ... | |
| Vinyl - One Word - WOW!! Vinyl lovers, audioman, mijostyn and the other vinyl bashers couldn't be further from the truth! Need to spend thousands for cables? Even more for a good digital set-up? 10K for a good analog set-up? 35K? Rubbish! I've been doing this since Christ... | |
| Classical music newbie needs your suggestions Here's a couple for 'ya: Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) + Canon in D Major (Johann Pachelbel). There are many different contemporary versions/interpretations by different conductors. For example, I purchased at least 6 different versions of Pac... | |
| Advice on Integrated Receiver @bound4h: Firstly, more than probably any other component in an audio system, speakers are a very personal and subjective choice. They are the business end of any sound system. Different ears are going to like different sound signatures. Secondly... | |
| Vinyl record cleaning @voodoolounge: don't believe everything you read on the internet or see on YouTube! The dishwasher Idea is just nuts! Experiment, if you must, but experiment with the records you don't care about and/or can easily be replaced. If money is the issu... |