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| Magnepan Placement Has anyone tried listening to them from the back? From the front we are listening through a sheet of steel with small holes in it. The steel sheet is the electromagnet and can't be doing the sound much good. I am experimenting with them turned aro... | |
| Koetsu cartridges - myth or reality? You can't go wrong with a Dynavector XV-1s or XV-1t. | |
| Mint LP a no go – now what? It is impossible to align the cartridge without a mirrored protractor. The reason is that, without being able to align the line with its mirror image you cannot know if you are looking vertically down on the cantilever as opposed to one or other s... | |
| Anti-skating problem It is likely to be the cartridge. When building a cartridge and the top ones are mostly hand built, extremely fine parameters are in play along with very thin coil wire and a stylus which is difficult to see with the naked eye. There is lots of ro... | |
| SME V setup SME's approach to everything is one of extreme accuracy and leaves nothing to chance. Their method of alignment is simple and easy to effect. The only criticism I have is that the hole of the alignment protractor is a loose fit over the plastic sl... | |
| Does EAR324 phono stage sound like tubes ? The EAR 324 and **PB sound completely different from one another. The 324 is leaner and more detailed. The 88PB is richer with much stronger bass. | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Having heard and owned horns, electrostatics (many), electromagnetics, ribbons and many other dynamic speakers for me the Coincident Pure Reference has a presence, tangibility and transparency that is unbeatable except perhaps by their PR Extreme. | |
| SME V, Tri-Planar or Phantom B-44 I find the SME V to be very neutral with rock solid imaging. If you use a dry cartridge the sound will be dry etc. Try the very musical Dynavector DRT Xv1s. Use as little damping as possible none if you can get away with it. More damping equals a ... | |
| VPI Super Platter Questions Does the Super Platter make a big improvement to the sound of the Aries 3 over the standard acylic one? | |
| Record is noisier after cleaning: Most record cleaning solutions contain varying percentages of isopropyl alcohol. Never use alcohol. It dries out the surface of the record making it sound 'raw'. Try the National Library of Canada formula. It contains no alcohol. |