oldrooney
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| Weak Link in Vinyl Playback @owl9113 Another thing I noticed while I was on the Crutchfield site was that your particular cartridge was specified for S-shaped tonearms ONLY. It has a fancy Shibata shaped stylus that evidently requires the S-shaped tonearm install. If your tu... | |
| Weak Link in Vinyl Playback @owl9113 In case I misunderstood your question, the ‘devices’ I used to setup my cartridge on the Numark table included the Riverstone Audio Record-Level Turntable Stylus Vertical Tracking Force Gauge (a very handy item), a full-size protractor in... | |
| Weak Link in Vinyl Playback @owl9113 In answer to your question, I purchased a used McIntosh MC100, a two-piece 50th anniversary edition 2-piece (circa 1992) preamp for which I probably paid too much. It has both a Moving Magnet and Moving Coil input. The MC input features a... | |
| Weak Link in Vinyl Playback @atmasphere Thanks for posting the link to the Hagermann discussion, good information. @elliottbnewcombjr Very helpful and to-the-point. @owl9113 Great thread you’ve got going here. I think both responders are offering helpful suggestions. I’v... | |
| Rumble showed up on NEW record??? To wrap this thread up, @noromance I found there wasn’t a problem money couldn’t solve. I bought a Pangea Vulcan turntable stand from Audio Advice. It arrived two days later, assembled easily, and seems quite stable. Added a 2nd shelf for storing ... | |
| Bi-Amping Options B&W 801 Series 2 @tomcarr I’ve never seen an impedance curve for the 801 S2, but I checked the user manual specs and found that while they are rated at ‘Nominal 8 Ohms’ in parantheses immediately following it reads “not falling below 4 Ohms.” I expect the drooping... | |
| Bi-Amping Options B&W 801 Series 2 @lowrider57 Thank you for the kind words. As best I can tell, the crossovers are, and always have been separate. From the response I’m getting on this thread they may well not be stock. In any case there are others for sale, so I’m not as worried ... | |
| Bi-Amping Options B&W 801 Series 2 @xenolith Thank you. I just hooked up the Rogue Stereo 100 to the ‘High Frequency’ taps and the sound is so sweet. I prepared a long post to update everyone on this thread, but lost it all on an errant finger click trying to preview it. Oh well. T... | |
| user poll on seperates vs integrated @chrisryanhorner I like the way you asked the question about separates vs. integrated. I checked out your top-of-the-line Focal Kanta No. 3 on Crutchfield’s. As Bill Clinton would say, ‘I feel your pain.’ I just got some new speakers myself, and e... | |
| What was your first big eye opener with regard to audio? My first big audio eye-opener was listening to a friend’s HiFi system set up in the room over his garage. He probably had 3 or four systems set up, a ton of surplus overstuffed furniture and over a dozen speakers. But the sound filled the room, it... | |
| Top two most important sound qualities Imaging and soundstage depth | |
| Rumble showed up on NEW record??? Update: Modified a standard 3mm hex key such that the ‘key’ end would fit in a 1/2 inch slot and was able to adjust the VTA properly without marring the mounting cup. Whatever height you set the VTA you still have to cope with the inset cup which ... | |
| Demise of bass quality in Main speakers I have always felt that, ‘there is no replacement for displacement’ such that the larger the woofer, the better the bass. But I recently read an account by Roger Russell of McIntosh who, in consulting Rudy Bozak and others designed a two-piece spe... | |
| Rumble showed up on NEW record??? @noromance Not yet. We are ‘in the process’ right now. I dug the existing turntable out of its hole atop the DAC, adjusted the VTA (think it did come with an adjustment tool, but I used a ball-end 3mm Allen key). I removed the ELAC phono stage. Th... | |
| Rumble showed up on NEW record??? @audioguy85 Yes. The manual specifically warns against loosening the screw. I found I had installed it on the 3rd, and not the 2nd notch as recommended. The angle of the dangle of the string seems to be a bit off to me. @ghdprentice The VTA ca... |