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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Bach - Starker's Unaccompanied Cello box on Speakers CornerWow, what great sound! Just picked this up at CES, from our friends at Acoustic Sounds, who had a great booth setup, with nice sale prices and plenty to choose from. Two bad my poker winni... | |
| Favorite CD treatments? Herbie's Audio Mat is one of the only tweaks I've run into that a crowd of about 25 audiophiles also all agree is effective. The cost $20, so it's not too risky. The only downside is that they lose stickiness and need to be washed w/warm water &am... | |
| DIY stylus-cleaning magic long David,I shared your fear about the "toothpick" method, and my nervous caffeine-juiced likely "user errors", as the Tech crowd would say. The quarter as a base made it handy, and allows me to let the cueing lever do the tricky part. One note of cau... | |
| How about a new addition to every posting made? Sean,Very cool idea. I'd do it. For starters, now listening to the Bodeans via tuner on 88.5 WXPN, IMHO the worlds' greatest radio station, available anywhere at www.xpn.org ;-)Cheers,Spencer | |
| Agon Members at CES I'll be there on Sunday, looking for all you trouble-makers. Can anyone tell me where online there's a listing of all the high end exhibitors and what rooms they are in? Need to plan my assault tactics to make the most of the day. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Step-up transformers... Bombaywalla, I'll be sure to post regardless of which direction I end up going. I'm having a tough time working thru this decision. It would be nice to be able to listen to the effects of the step-up + low output cartridge vs. the higher output ve... | |
| air tight atm-3 vs. berning zh270 Another vote for the Berning. I used to own the ATM1, which is not quite as good as the ATM3, but sounds pretty similar. The main reason the 3s cost so much is because of the higher power and the assoiciated high cost/high quality transformers on ... | |
| Step-up transformers... Doug,Thanks, very interesting. It's quite a dilemna: what hurts more, adding a tranny or choosing a high output version of a cartridge, in lieu of the lower output version? In this case, I'm considering the Airy3. Mehran and I talked, and we sort ... | |
| Step-up transformers... Has anyone listened to both the K&K and the Bent Audio? Toying with switching from a .4mv Shelter 501II to something lower output going into my CAT SL1 MkIII. Suggestions for this application? Thanks, Spencer | |
| A guide for Audiophiles and Marriage Follow military thinking, when it comes to my system"Don't ask, don't tell"! Everybody wins. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Guys, thanks for the brief Mahler primer. I'm ready to improve upon my pathetic album entitled, "Mahler's Greatest Hits". Shouldn't that be illegal? Rushton, Fremer certainly isn't the only Smile-lover out there, and I generally like Mikey's taste... | |
| DIY stylus-cleaning magic long Thanks Doug, I tried it today, and based on what I see under magnification and hear, it works! I tried mounting the eraser on a quarter with some blu-tak type putty, and I lower the stylus in after lying the quarter/eraser on the platter. Seems ea... | |
| good match for Atma-Sphere M60 As the Bank in Banksfriend, I feel like I've gotta add something here...I like many of the suggestions already made here:Merlins - Biased, but I think you can't beat 'emProacs - Easy to drive, nice woodwork, good mids, but perhaps lacking a bit of... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Brian Wilson - Smile - First full listen. So much hype to live up to, it will be a challenge. This was a xmas gift from my wife. She's great at picking up on pathetic hints.Laurindo Almeida - Virtuoso Guitar - 45rpm white vinyl direct-to-disc WOW,... | |
| Going HD - Should I dump DirectTV? Sean's comment that it depends on local conditions matches what I've heard. A Comcast repair guy told me that I shouldn't bother w/their HD yet, because of problems in my neighborhood. As a DirectTV / Tivo user, I'm reluctant to switch to any cabl... |