photon46
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| Maggie 1.6 vs Von Schweikert VR 4 Brett, watch out. This sort of thinking is just going to get you a permanent e-ticket ride on the endless merry go round of gear acquisition. In all seriousness, as a fellow 1.6 owner who spent an hour listening to the VR4's driven by a new Electr... | |
| Just bought a nitty gritty, hear no difference. Well, give us a little more informastion. What kind of system are you listening through? What kind of recordings did you clean & evaluate, new or old, clean lps or moldy old garage sale finds? Did you have a problem with ticks, pops, & gro... | |
| Rega P25, would it sound better than my CDP? Digital offers: lower noise floor as a rule, convenience, ability to swap music with friends, no worry about tweaking turntable/cartridge parameters, and access to a vast range of music that will NEVER be available on vinyl.Vinyl offers: the abili... | |
| Help, what's the best "Sticky FIngers?" Re: Tpy's response. I too noticed the "USA collection" discs that were recently released. Are these the remastered versions to which you refer? | |
| Help, what's the best "Sticky FIngers?" Qdrone, thanks for pointing me to that web site. He evalauted some pressings I wasn't aware of which I'll keep an eye out for. | |
| Beginnners question - Phono stage Your phono stage multiplies your cartridges' signal a certain fixed amount, so the volume level from your phono input varies according to the output of your cartridge. Most MM cartridges output somewhere between 4 to 6.5/7 mv, so that can account ... | |
| What are the "Must have" LP's? I've heard and or own many of the above recommendations and they are fine. By far and away, the most astounding lp sonics I've heard is John Abercrombies "Current Events" ECM1311. I've got a mint promo copy from a radio dj's collection, don't know... | |
| Powering off vs leaving on Do a thread search on this subect in the archives, it's been discussed at great length many times. | |
| Any good pointers for room treatments with maggies Simon, I'll offer my observations as a 1.6qr. owner. I've added two kinds of treatment, both of which have improved sound quality. Without a doubt, the greatest inprovement came from installing four bass traps in the "plant shelf" areas on top of ... | |
| Do you protect your hearing? Yo, I tell you it's NEVER too early to start being concerned about this. I'm 52, and many of my friends, some twenty years younger, suffer hearing loss from noise exposure. Some of my friends that are woodworkers in their 30's have rather severe h... | |
| Dynavector or Grado ? TheAquaman, I don't think that the problems some others have mentioned about Grado are relevant with the JMW-9 arm & VPI table. I have a Grado Sonata in a Scout and the "Grado Wobble" has reared it's head on one lp out of probably 500 lps I've... | |
| Alternatives to sand and lead shot for stands I understand lead shot is also available steel plated as it is illegal to use pure lead shot in many places beacause of toxicity/environmental concerns. This would alleviate handling/disposal concerns. | |
| JMW-9/Cartridge Problem I am perplexed at your difficulty. I have the same cartridge & arm and have had no problem dialing in anything between 1.5-2.0 grams using the standard dropped counterweight that came with the turntable/arm from VPI. No additional weight was r... | |
| new vs. used vinyl, pops and clicks. All of the above posts are giving accurate advice. I have purchased hundreds of used lp's in the last two years, averaging probably $3.00 a copy. After cleaning them with a Nitty Gritty machine, very, very few have any annoying tics or pops that i... | |
| Cambridge Audio 640C... I want to upgrade One possibility is to use your 640c as a transport & upgrade your sound with an outboard dac. The 640c has very low jitter and makes an excellent inexpensive transport. I've used a 640c as a transport in conjunction with an Assemblage (Sonic F... |