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| Clearaudio Virtuoso Wood I bought a new Virtuoso Wood cartridge in March and I feel it is wonderful sounding. The key to this cartridge is the VTA. I emailed Musical Surroundings, the distributor of Clearaudio, about the set-up. They told me the VTA should be set negative... | |
| cleaning a cartridge In March, I tried to buy a new stylus tip for my Grado MCX, that had the upgraded MCZ tip. Needle Doctor and 3 other companies indicated that the MCX-MCZ cartridge and stylus tips are discontinued and no new stylus tips are availible. I bought a n... | |
| Active shielding. What is? Go to "synergisticresearch.com". They market Active Sheiding cables and give great explanation why this can be effective. | |
| The Good Ol Vacume Tube I thought the English spell it, "valve", Old Chap? Tubes are indeed wonderful. | |
| Good match for Spendor S3/5s? Currently, I am using a Bryston 3B-ST to drive Spendor 2/2 speakers. Plently of clean power and tight bass response. Mid-range is clear and natural, nice imaging. Highs are very smooth. I also use a Conrad-Johnson MV-50 tubed amp with a PV-5 pre a... | |
| Belt for AR turntable? Try looking at "needledoctor.com". They sell a lot of phono parts and accessories. | |
| Integrated with Phono and Headphone? The Bryston B-60P has a nice MM phono stage, $400.00 option over the base B-60. Total retail new is about $1,900. The headphone output is great. I use with Sennheiser HD-600 headphones. Headphone circut uses the line stage of pre-amp, so power-amp... | |
| Speakers for Bryston 4B-SST Definetly check out the PMC speaker line. PMC is a British company that works directly with Bryston. Bryston distributes PMC in North America, and PMC distributes Bryston in UK. Go to "bryston.ca" for info. Almost any movie in recent history use B... | |
| HDCD Question.... HDCD discs sound wonderful, in my opinion. I use an Arcam FMJ-CD23, which is HDCD ready. A red indicator light comes on when a HDCD disc is loaded into player. I'm surprised how many CD's are encoded with the HDCD process without any codes or noti... | |
| XRCD vs. SACD Another alternative is to seek a CD player that can play HDCD encoded discs. My Arcam FMJ-CD23 can play HDCD discs and they sound better than standard CD's. More natural sound with better dynamics. HDCD is often overlooked and not promoted enough.... | |
| $500-600 Used Tuner I agree with Magnum Dynalab FT-101A. I owned one new then upgraded to MD-100. Huge improvement, but retails for $1,600. Older Kenwood tuners, especially the KT-7500 or KT-8300 rival the Magnum models. These 2 are always on eBay for $150-400. I've ... | |
| So you're an audiophile - are you also a musician? When I was 10 years old, my parents forcibly made my brother and I to join a "Tamburitza" group. Any Croation-Serbian audiophiles will know what this is. Did that for five years, learning to read music, play a Brac, sing and dance. College days to... | |
| Am I being fair? Cash is King! I sell cars for a living. (Porsche, Audi, BMW).Do you know how many promises are made to buy a car "next week" and never materialize? Whoever writes a check first wins. | |
| Cocktail of choice when listening to fav music? I once read that a 6-pack of beer is the cheapest sound improvement to any system! | |
| My Tubed Amps Entered "Twilight Zone" I want to thank everybody for the suggestions to help me with the loud hissing problem. Today, I began to play with tubes in both amps. I readjusted the bias on power amp, removed and reinstalled all of the tubes. Then I began substituting a NOS R... |