piedpiper
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| Rewiring a Well Tempered tonearm- thoughts? The other advantage of running tone arm wires outside the arm aside from the logistics is that you can minimize the effect of the arm as a dielectric, especially if you are using minimal dielectric wire. I recommend using the thinnest purest solid... | |
| Vinyl newbie - have a few questions If you don't use an RCM you're just leaving much of the grunge on the record.RCMs don't have to cost thousands. Nitty Gritty has one for $325. | |
| How to pack rega planar 3 for safe shipping Do they have the original box and packing material? Are they the original owner, in other words, were they the ones to originally unpack it? The Rega gets packed with arm installed but counter weight, platter and dust cover removed. There is no tr... | |
| Best location setup of turntable ditto Bd. | |
| What to expect in a TT upgrade? IME, it's more like the Law of Increasing Returns. As the system gets better the differences become more and more apparent. ...and they are very musically significant, assuming the "improvement" is truly an improvement and that your discernment is... | |
| What to expect in a TT upgrade? I would wonder whether you would be getting an upgrade for that amount of money but it sounds like you're maybe not interested in an upgrade per se but more friendly logistics. | |
| Zerostat? Any Other Good Options? Thanx Ghost. I like the hot water trick. I'll try it. | |
| Turntable or vinylology 101 for newbies. In addition to A'feil's above comment, it is an opportunity to budget yourself efficiently since you can get a $40 cartridge for the short run and not feel like your loosing money when you go to upgrade it as budget allows. When you do get a bette... | |
| Zerostat? Any Other Good Options? What's Permostat? | |
| Zerostat? Any Other Good Options? I've actually found the Talisman does add an additional enhancement after using the Ionoclast. I got the Ionoclast first and since it's o inexpensive and easy to use I just use both. | |
| Zerostat? Any Other Good Options? Of course, M'shade claims it is better than the Zerostat. I haven't compared them myself. I do use the Iconolast as well as the much more expensive and different Walker Talisman.Dealer disclosure. | |
| Am I getting it all? forgot to mention that variable. I always keep my interconnects relatively short so I tend to forget about that one. | |
| Am I getting it all? The success of the passive pre is dependent on three issues other than the quality of the passive circuit: does it play loud enough, does your source (CDP and/or phono stage) have a low enough output impedance to drive the passive pre in series wi... | |
| Strange phenomona this hobby. ...and only unamplified. Most PA assisted gigs are awful, especially the bigger they get, often downright get-your-money-back abominable. | |
| Name a couple of HOLY GRAIL LPs Miles Davis Sketches of Spain is wonderful on the 45 rpm reissue. Ditto Bill Evans Waltz for Debby.The 45s sound more like master tape than any 33 rpm IME. Sketches is an amazing arrangement and the performance is inspired, not to mention inspiring. |