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| New arm DaVinci, TW-Acustic or? Sounds like a road trip is in my future. #9, #9, #9, #9..... | |
| Amp for Coincident Super Eclipse I concur with both Jax2 & R_f_sayles. While I too have not heard the Coincident Frankensteins in my system, my Total Eclipse certainly want more than SET power especially in the low end. Tubes are essential, but I would consider 25-30 watts a ... | |
| What's your best audio "find" While doing some cleaning here at work, we ran across the following:(2) Crown D150A power amps, (2) Crown IC150A preamps, (2) Tandberg TCD 310 cassette decks, (2) Dynaco FM-5 tuners, a Technics SL1300 and a Revox A77. All completely mint.They were... | |
| Project Align it CartridgeAlignment Gauge is good? Orionpcgames,I'd recommend you do a search of this site regarding protractors. The pros and cons of each design has already been thoroughly debated (many times). | |
| Project Align it CartridgeAlignment Gauge is good? Buy a Mint LP "Best Tractor" custom made for your arm and be done. The Project is crudely marked, with lines too think to be of any true accuracy - it's made for their tonearms on their tables, and the markings on the protractor itself merely corr... | |
| K&K phono break-in period While leaving the unit running initially is a great idea, you really need to run signal through it for 200-300 hours to fully break the unit in - that's quite a few records! Several people I've recommended the unit to have commented that it takes ... | |
| Recommend Your Top 5 Pipe Organ LPs Thanks folks! BTW, I have nothing against a label like Opus 3, since they have a vast catalog of original releases. We were in Passau, Germany last summer and had the privilege of hearing an organ performance at St. Stephen's cathedral. This being... | |
| Does "perfect alignment of cart" eliminate 100% ? I agree with Dan_ed and Onhwy61. I too can play 99% of my LPs with no IGD. Unless there's a great deal of wear on the disc, all is well. Of course, alignment is only absolutely correct at the two null points (given Loefgren or Baerwald) - every ot... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 Synthfreek,Agreed regarding the new Phosphorescent LP. Good stuff and a nice progression of their sound. I've been enjoying the Mimicking Birds LP which is wonderful both sonically and musically - a bit in the Bon Iver meets Joanna Newsome vein. R... | |
| What Step-up transformers are best value? Having directly compared the two, the Lundahl LL1931 is considerably better than the S&B TX-103/Bent Audio Mu SUTs. They do, however, require several hundred hours of break-in to sound their best. Merely my opinion (and my system) and the usua... | |
| New music In regular rotation (all on LP)-2009 leftovers:Allen Toussaint: The Bright MississippiOld Lights: Every Night Begins the Same2010:Hoquiam: S/TBalmorhea: S/TThe Besnard Lakes: Are the Roaring NightJoanna Newsome: Have One on Me | |
| Soundsmith's turnaround time? A lot of folks in the UK use Expert Stylus. Most seem to indicate they do a fine job; there's a lot of testimony over at pink fish media. Alas, I don't think they have a website. Expert Stylus CompanyPO Box 3AshteadSurreyKT21 2QDTel: 01372 276 604... | |
| Speaker cables For Vandersteen 2CE sigs Long ago when I owned Vandersteens, I used Goertz MI-2 in a bi-wire configuration - best I ran across at the time. | |
| When is used used up? Kijanki is correct - the operating parameters of electrolytic caps are constantly degrading primarily from heat. While the actual capacitance figure in microfarads may remain fairly stable, ESR, dielectric absorption and leakage current are consta... | |
| MFSL Gold Little Feat Knownothing,I disagree - While I can't speak to the recent spate of reissues, I can tell you about the original LPs. I think many folks would hold Waiting For Columbus as one of the best live rock albums ever made, with sonics that range from very... |