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| Turntable suggestions for a newbie Yeah, go with the Vpi... If nothing else, it will hold its value a little better. I have a Michell, actually the '23 Transcriptors with the Onyx arm. The lift off dust cover (which I prefer... Lower the attached lid when playing; a raised cover is... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Belle and Sebastian "Boy With The Arab Strap" Gloria Lynne "Go! Go! Go!" (mono) Classie Ballou "All Night Man" Ray Mirijanian "The Ray Mirijian Oud And Clarinet Vol I" (mono) Zoh Amba, Chris Corsano, Bill Orcutt "The Flower School"... | |
| new member, some questions, need help please I think if you can go out and listen, you will find that the Watt Puppies have been eclipsed in their price range. I audition but can't afford... I'm a window shopper when it comes to a certain price point. I settled on the used Maggie 1.7i, and a... | |
| Integrated Tube Amp approx. $2,500 I second the Willsenton R8. You can buy, sometimes, direct on line, I bought mine as an open box for under 1k delivered. Many option with tube rolling (of course), and operation mode, and simple bias adjust. This was my first "quality" tube amp, T... | |
| 15 amp circuit VS. 20 amp Circuit The outlets are not wired in "series" they are wired in "parallel"; series wiring is the old Christmas light string that goes dark when any bulb fails.. Let us assume you have 120 Volt available, and that the breaker and outlets are in good condit... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Reorganization and cleaning session. It's pretty much been Galactic and Lettuce... | |
| AA for us Like the cowboy that stopped smoking by switching to dip......I have been focusing on the record collection. I don't recommend going off trail in this manner. Do you have any idea how many variants of DSOTM are out there? | |
| Speaker wire impedance? Speaker impedance? While on the subject of speaker cables.... Do not neatly coil excess speaker (or interconnects) wire, this is, in effect, making a coil, AKA "choke", and will definitely affect impedance. If you have excess wire it is better to have that extra wir... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? splurged on a Nina Simone Picture Disc for framing, so a couple of my mono and stereo copies of "Jazz As Played In An Exclusive Side Street Club" Doris Troy "Just One Look" Real Gone Music RGM-1397 repress Jonathon Richman ATML "Back In You... | |
| Upgrade speakers or DAC SPEAKERS Speakers are where the rubber meets the road | |
| Speaker wire impedance? Speaker impedance? Impedance and resistance are not the same thing. Resistance is a fixed value, a 10 ohm resistor is a 10 ohm resistance a wire has a resistance value per foot.. Impedance, or conductance, is a value that changes in relation to AC circuit behavior.,... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Patric Leonard "It All Comes Down To Mood" Ruudy 6 Records Field Music "(Measure)" Memphis Industries MI 0149 LP Elvis Costello And The Attractions "Blood And Chocolate" Columbia FC 40518 Milan Svoboda "Cesko-Polski Big Band" Supraphon 1... | |
| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album I am currently putting Unconscious Collective's "Pleistocene Moon" on Tofu Carnage Records into Sunday morning rotation. Same Genre, more or less: Godspeed You! Black Emperor's catalog, and The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid ... | |
| What is your "holy grail song" that you cannot find? I would like to find Big Head Todd And The Monsters "Another Mayberry" vinyl LP in at least NM condition. Gave the first born for the Ducati 900 SS years ago, but I'll come up with something... | |
| The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD There are many independent, off label, small label, and self release artists out there releasing on file sharing platforms, but also media. Cassettes and CD's, because of the economies of production will be around for awhile yet. Some artists I fo... |