rushton
Responses from rushton
| Did you upgrade from Scout to Scoutmaster?????? Chazzbo, take a look at Slipknot1's system description and the posts following it. He went through the full upgrade cycle, starting with the Scout, and his observations are interspersed through the posts. . | |
| What music do you & your spouse/partner both love? We're both classical music listeners, so for my spouse it's often Shostakovich, Mahler, Stravinsky or Haydn. Most recently, though, it was the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson singing songs of Neruda to music written by her husband.. | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-9a VS PV-11 Excellent summary, Francisco. I owned the PV-9a and listened to the PV-10 and PV-11 as they were introduced. My observations at the time exactly track with yours.. | |
| Lp playback rituals [W]hat type of specific manual cleaning (insert brand name here) tools should I use if I just want to clean & play?Brushro, to just play your records, a carbon fiber anti-static brush as suggested by Jmcgrogan2 and Dan_ed above, works great. I... | |
| Use VPI Record cleaning brush ? How much liquid ? Waynefia, my exprerience is that I used a lot more fluid for the same cleaning results when using the VPI 17's built-in brush than I do now applying the fluid to the DD type pads and then applying the wet pads to the LP. With the DD type pad, and ... | |
| Use VPI Record cleaning brush ? How much liquid ? Wayne, today I do as you and use the Disc Doctor (or Music Direct) fiber pad brushes with much better results than the built-in VPI 17 brush. When I have used the VPI 17 brush, I pumped out enough fluid to full wet the surface ahead of the brush a... | |
| Magic Diamond vs Airtight PC1? Krc, I can't comment on the PC1, but I believe you will find the mid-range of the Magic Diamond to match your requirements very well -- neutral but not analytical, timbre is spot on, rendering of harmonic overtone shadings is excellent, resolution... | |
| AVALON OWNERS... In addition to more surface area at the interface, what if you also screwed the feet into the base of the speaker using 5/16th inch threaded rod for a rigid and very solid connection of speaker cabinet base to foot? That's how mine are designed to... | |
| Magic Diamond vs Airtight PC1? Ejayncrrcom, keep in mind that you are aligning the cantilever and stylus to the record groove, not the cartridge body. It is possible for any cartidge to have it's body and its cartridge assembly out of alignment with each other due to some varia... | |
| AVALON OWNERS... Sirspeedy, take a look at my first post in this thread and then my followup. I was quite surprised by the significant improvement we got here over the stock stainless steel spikes (if that is what you're using). From what I hear with Lloyd's Valid... | |
| AVALON OWNERS... Marcussix, when my wife and I made the change from the stock spikes to the Walker Audio Valid Points, we really weren't expecting much of a difference. What we heard surprised us -- the Valid Points made a significant difference that was immediate... | |
| Magic Diamond vs Airtight PC1? Give the Magic Diamond about 50 hours of playing time before assessing it. Then be sure to re-do your finetuning for VTF and VTA to account for the suspension loosening up. The bass perfomance does improve with breakin, just be sure to readjust. A... | |
| Magic Diamond vs Airtight PC1? I pulled the Magic Diamond spec sheet that came with mine, which is identified as serial number "MD-B 10003" (there may be some minor variations among these since they are all hand made in very small production runs). The specs listed are:Tracking... | |
| AVALON OWNERS... Under my Eidolons, I use Walker Audio Valid Points on the included 1" discs (3 per speaker). This was a huge improvement over the stock spikes and solved the floor interface issue.. | |
| Magic Diamond vs Airtight PC1? Slipknot, the 0.6mV typo Ebalog mentions is in your System description under Magic Diamond. And the correct output figure might be 0.38mV -- it's certainly somewhere in that range. I'll check this evening to see if the output figure is printed on ... |