psychicanimal
Responses from psychicanimal
| Record Cleaning Machine Fluid I'm consistently amazed at audiophiles, as a group, believing that a product costing $20-$50/pint or quart or what have you will provide better performance than a basic cleaning solution discounting far more salient factors such as good brushes an... | |
| Best sounding phono preamp under $600 Could you define what "best" means? | |
| Record Cleaning Machine Fluid I prefer the Audio Intelligent products, they flow better, clean better and cover the record, where the RRL stuff always beaded up.It seems that the old adage "you must empty your tea cup before it can be filled with the new" really worked for Pau... | |
| Record Cleaners / RCMs I am trying the eBay Groovmaster along with a used Record Doctor. I got it here for $60 plus shipping. I still think records DO need some soaking time, so the Groovmaster will take care of it.GroovmasterI am awaiting delivery of Audio Intelligent ... | |
| Can you imagine a world without vinyl? Eldartford...the Spartan audiophile. Hey, I'm thinking of revamping the L-07 monoblocks w/ some VenHaus caps & Fairchild rectifiers. Should be worthwhile. | |
| Audiogon speaker wire gurus, please help me Your weak link is the First Sound pre. | |
| Looking for turntable for under $1000 KAB 1200--the Creature on steroids? It's not 'audiophile approved'. Wait, what happened on TNT reviews? Oh...one of those Creatures w/out the revved up power supply smoked a MMF-9. That wasn't too much of a challenge. Totally revvved up Creatures ... | |
| Looking for turntable for under $1000 Direct drive or idler wheel drive at this price point. Belts are a real waste of money anyway you put it. | |
| Looking for turntable for under $1000 I would ask this question in the Asylum... | |
| Are DIY Cables Worth It? I've experimented with doubling up and using heavier gauge for the return run of speaker cables and it's interesting how it impacts the sonic characteristics.Go ahead, we're all ears...*** | |
| City dweller power cable & conditioner questions Here's two choices:http://www.vhaudio.com/images/eichmannpowerstrip.gifhttp://www.vhaudio.com/images/vhhotbox.jpgThem surpus ONEAC isolation transformer /filters are really good and can be found for $35 or less in eBay, depending on size. They wil... | |
| Integrated or Separates on a budget Why don't you get a nice used DAC, keep the carousel and find a nice used integrated? There's plenty of great units nowadays since the economy's going bad and people are dumping ballast.An early 80's classic: Yamaha A-1 dual mono integrated...real... | |
| Where do I go from here? Agree with preamp: how about a used Channel islands passive?Also, adding dood power filtration will boos your system's performance beyond belief. You don't have to spend a lot of money. | |
| Are DIY Cables Worth It? Go to the Cable Asylum and look up the reviews of VenHaus cables. VenHaus makes good products available to the audiophile 'masses'.Cable matters but its quality must be in proportion to the system's quality: too good and it will start revealling a... | |
| Any cartridges like Shure, but more exciting? I prefer dark meat. Guinea hen meat, that is. The AT's have this fast, detailed HF extension--very true. However, the 440 is like the Shure M97's, mid fi. The real nice AT's are the upper end classic models: AT-15S, 20S, 20Sa.The Shure are MM's, S... |