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| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? First of all, double check the pivot to spindle distance of your arm. I've mounted a couple of dozen cartridges of all kinds in Rega arsm over the year without any problems, so its possible that your arm is incorrectly installed. If the arm is mou... | |
| Cartridge Compliance Conversion Empirical testing by Audio Asylum correspondent Garth using a Schröder arm with a verified effective mass showed that the DL-103's compliance is likely 10-12 cu if it were measured by the standard method used by most cartridge manufacturers. There... | |
| Best $500 cartridge? Dynavector DV-20XH? Oops. I neglected to mention that I was writing about the Denon 103. | |
| Best $500 cartridge? Dynavector DV-20XH? Under $200 and the single greatest value - for - the - dollar component in the history of audio. Yeah, it gives up some high frequency extension to pricier cartridges, and it's not going to give you holographic imaging, but it has a verisimilitude... | |
| Red Trumpet still in business? http://www.hmv.co.jp. The site offers an English language option if you click a link in the upper left of the home page. I've never bought anything from them but I have bought a bunch of vinyl from HMV UK's web site without any problems. The Beatl... | |
| SPL METER? ATI OR RADIO SHACK If you're seriously interested in your room's acoustics I'd suggest that you invest in a copy of the awesomely powerful ETF 5 acoustic measurement software. It runs on any Windows PC with a duplex sound card. ETF can do frequency response measurem... | |
| Static O' Rama with my new table If you're in the Northern Hemisphere this is heating season so the humidity in many houses is quite low, which aggravates static problems. One solution to your issue would be to increase the humidity in your hi fi room with a cold evaporative humi... | |
| Where do you buy "NEW/Current" LPs? A few more: www.diversevinyl.com. Since you're not a resident of the EU you're exempt from the UK's 17 1/2% VAT, so you get a 17 1/2% discount on DV's prices. DV also ship very quickly. www.gearheadrecords.comwww.hmv.co.uk Amazon UK has a lot of c... | |
| Cartridge allignment Especially VTA The Wallytractor is about as far from a "Mickey Mouse" tool as you can get. Since it's made specifically for the effective length of your arm there's no guesswork involved as there would be with your beat up Dennesen. I've used every alignment too... | |
| Need help making TV decision May I suggest the Sony 36" CRT KD-36XS955, a steal for $1500. Yeah, it's not hang - on - the - wall sexy and it weighs well over 200 pounds, but the picture (especially after an ISF calibration) is fantastic. The Sony does blacks that LCD and plas... | |
| Hall of Fame: BIGGEST BADDEST Monster Amps How about Great American Sound's Godzilla mono power amp? It put out over a kilowatt into a 2 ohm load. I saw one at a hi fi show in the late '70s and my memory is that the Godzilla needed a 220v AC line, like a big window air conditioner. Unfortu... | |
| Would an Audiofile really download music? Sure. There's a lot of music that is only available as downloads from the internet. For example, the best song I've heard in the last couple of years, the anthemic "This Is Destiny Calling" by the UK punk band Johnny Panic, can only be had as an M... | |
| NYC area thrift shop vinyl I haven't been to a WFMU record fair in 2 or 3 years since I moved to the Boston area (I recently moved to the New Haven area so I might go to this weekend's show). Before that I went to the shows religiously. My memory is that the prices were usu... | |
| NYC area thrift shop vinyl The fall edition of the twice - yearly WFMU Record Fair is this weekend in Manhattan. Depending on who's making the claim it's either the biggest such event in the US or number two after the Austin fair. There's usually not much classical music fo... | |
| speakers for Naim CD5i + 5i amp I've used Neat Petite 3s and Neat Elites with an assortment of Naim electronics. Neat speakers and Naim are a fabulous match especially for someone who likes rock music. Neat's ribbon tweeter is fast and revealing but certainly not bright. The lit... |