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| Phono Stage Burn-in Hagerman's inexpensive ($49) iRIAA inverse RIAA filter is a great tool for phono stage break - in. Put a CD on infinite repeat, feed it into the iRIAA, feed the iRIAA's output into your phono stage. Let it run for as long as you want. | |
| Denon Cartridges where to buy Phonophono.de sells the 103 for 128.80 ; that's about US$165 today. I bought one from them some years ago and they're very easy to deal with. For the 103R try audiocubes2.com. They want $329 for it. | |
| Cartridges - what have you owned and your opinion Here's just the ones I can remember right now:Grado FTE +1Shure M91EDADC XLMFidelity Research FR1 Mk. 3FBlue Point SpecialAudio Technica OC-5Audio Technica OC-7Audio Technica OC-9Sumiko Talisman SLyra Evolve 99Denon 103Dynavector 10X4Dynavector 10... | |
| 2008 RMAF – – – all things analog. Back in 2002 Audio Asylum correspondent Klaus discovered a letter in a 1967 issue of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society where RCA reported some measurements they had made of speed variations caused by stylus drag. Using a metal master, t... | |
| Help with Setting Up Nottingham Spacedeck You don't really "set up" a Spacedeck, you just assemble it. By that I mean that the Spacedeck does not require arcane tweaking by a specially trained technician to sound good like, say, dressing the tonearm cable in an LP-12. Follow the instructi... | |
| How Should We Clean A New Record? According to mastering engineer Stan Ricker, record presses are not sprayed with Teflon or silicone or anything else. Do a search on YouTube on "how records are made" and you'll find several videos showing the process such as this one. You won't s... | |
| Denon DL-103 vs. DL-160? Denon's 5-mm/N compliance number for the 103 is specified at 100 Hz. That is dynamic compliance and can't be compared to the lower static compliance specs from other manufacturers. The 103's static compliance at resonance appears to be in the rang... | |
| Bet You Did Not Know Saturday is Record Store Day The web site (mentioned in the Times article) appears to be infected with a virus. My AV program detects the site trying to deliver the HTML/Rce.Gen Trojan with the home page. | |
| Which speaker is best with Naim I haven't heard any of the newer Neat speakers like the Motives so I can't really offer an opinion about them. My experience with Neat has been with the Petite (2 versions), Mystique, and Elite. Based on having heard 4 models I'd say that there de... | |
| Which speaker is best with Naim Neat's little Petite monkey coffin is something of a classic partner for Naim electronics. Neat's traditional excellence in timing and pacing complement Naim very well, and the Petite's ribbon tweeter gives them sweet and detailed treble. The Peti... | |
| Audiophile turntables of the 60's and 70's I'd say that the Empire turntable was probably considered the state of the art in the early to mid '70s. The important thing to remember about that pre - Ivor Tiefenbrun time was that most audiophiles didn't think that turntables had any inherent ... | |
| Anyone ever try ear candles for better listening? Ear candling can cause severe ear damage; the thinge are so dangerous that they can't legally be sold in Canada for example. For more information on this fraud take a look at Quackwatch. | |
| Comments, please, on Spica TC-60 setup. I used TC-50s for years (still have them in fact, although I no longer use them). Spicas were notorious for their small "sweet spot." If you're sitting in the sweet spot the Spicas have incredible imaging and clear mids, but I could hear the imagi... | |
| How To Store Record Collection? Do you live anywhere near an Ikea furniture store? They have several inexpensive shelving systems that are great for records. For years I've used Ikea pine shelving that I finished with polyurethane varnish. 40 pounds / foot sounds about right. | |
| String suspension vs. uni pivot or gimball tonearm Sounds to me like you're parroting something that you were told by competitors of "string suspended" (actually a misnomer since neither use string) tonearms. They're hardly unbiased. Did you raise these questions with Bill Firebaugh of Well Temper... |