retiredaudioguy
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| Looking for a more solid-feeling turntable (and maybe a new preamp) @bbilings Agreed about the arm lifter. I slowly lower the arm with the lever, the built in damper does not work. My JMW arm is unipivot and was a pain to get level. I also use a Koetsu black, and THAT was a pain to install, separate nuts and s... | |
| Looking for a more solid-feeling turntable (and maybe a new preamp) I have had my VPI Scout Master, with the JMW Memorial arm for about 20 years - zero issues & great performance. The Scoutmaster is massive enough but can still be lifted, an increasingly important factor to me as a pre-boomer! Sutherland d... | |
| Considering switching to XLR cables, Be very wary of XLR<->RCA conversion. XLR to RCA is often "ignore pin 3". RCA to XLR is often Live to pin2, Signal Ground to pin 1, GROUND PIN 3. Thus the rest of your amplification is single ended as a balanced input signal bypasses the p... | |
| Anybody ever dealt with Safe and Sound audio I made the journey, Mike & Aaron had set up their listening room ready for me. We installed the new K-01XD SE and my K-01XS and my Aurender. After an hour of intense critical listening I was totally convinced of the value of the upgrade. So... | |
| Vinyl playback - lack of bass? I did a quick comparison of the first few minutes of Scheherazade, between the SACD and the reissue Vinyl. I adjusted the volume so that the opening (bass heavy) chords were within a dB or so. The levels of the violin entry were subsequently som... | |
| Vinyl playback - lack of bass? It is tough for LPs to have loud, deep bass as it required large displacements (L-R & Up-Down) of the groove. No such limitations in Digital. If you have an LP and the digital remaster it would not surprise me to find that the CD/SACD has lo... | |
| Anybody ever dealt with Safe and Sound audio Thanks to everyone for their info. I spoke with Mike and Aaron on the phone, they will have a K-01XD SE for me on Friday. I'll take my K-01XS to compare, and my Aurender for auditioning tracks. Now that I am in VT gone are the days when I could... | |
| Anybody ever dealt with Safe and Sound audio Has anyone been to their physical location? | |
| And the biggest influence on sound quality is... One thing that we cannot fix is the quality of a recording, and I would, perhaps, argue that a good system might make a bad recording sound worse than a system with certain limitations (e.g. a soft system top end taming a hard recording). Also,... | |
| Volume level of commercial CD's. Another oops: those posts should have been in response to the "How Loud" discussion. Getting old! | |
| Volume level of commercial CD's. OOPS: Typo Heiliger gesang | |
| Volume level of commercial CD's. For each 6dB you are losing a bit of resolution, so, if you play Redbook 16 bit stuff do attenuate AFTER the DAC. I monitored my playing of Mahler 2 this afternoon. At my seat the range was from 44 dB to 94. Most passages were at about 60 to 6... | |
| Has it all been worth it? No regrets. I am a lover of music, though not a musician. The better the quality of the sound the closer I am to the performance. In rural VT I rarely get the chance to listen go to the concert or recital hall, and, indeed, the behavior of audi... | |
| What do the statistics say about the age of Audiophiles and the replacement rate? And my daughter has a good ear and a good system. VTL 85, Audio Physic Virgos, streaming and digital mainly and my old VPI TT. She is a sound designer and editor by profession, when she cannot get an acting gig. | |
| What do the statistics say about the age of Audiophiles and the replacement rate? And, do you know any female audiophiles? I was lucky (and then unlucky) as my late wife had hearing that was probably better than mine, and was all in on great sound. When I was trying to decide, in 2008, between the Esoteric X-03SE and the X-05... |