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| Advice needed on MC cartridges Normanthagard, thank you for the recommendation on the Hanas cartridges. Ghdprentice, Thank you for describing in what ways the Van den Hull Frog (MC) improved your system’s sound quality. Interesting how your record surface noise was so reduced.... | |
| Advice needed on MC cartridges Thank you all for your input. I’m learning a lot from you all. I’ll try to respond to each of your posts one at a time below. Noromance- glad you had good luck with your Decca stylus replacement Jasonbourne- thanks for the explanation on the the... | |
| Advice needed on MC cartridges If Mijostyn is correct, having to buy an exceedingly expensive $8000 MC cartridge to hear imrpovement over the current MM cartridge, is certainly not a cost effective alternative in keeping with the cost of the other components. Maybe I should sta... | |
| Advice needed on MC cartridges Jasonbourne52, I'll look up the HanaSL mc cartridge you recommended. Thanks Johnto, I'm unfamiliar with MI cartridge so will go to the Soundsmith site to get educated about them. Fuzztone, I'll look up the two cartridges you recommend as well. T... | |
| Bob Carver Going Direct. I purchased Carver's whole Phase Linear line of matching components not long after they came out after hearing them at a friend's house. After the friend played the Pink Floyd album with the heartbeat on it loudly I had to have them.. They looked ... | |
| Paypal Restrictions and Withholding Funds I’ve only sold one piece of audio equipment, The payer quickly sent the money via PayPal after receiving the component. I then had the same problem as osadu with Paypal not wanting to release the payment. After a series of emails to them and jumpi... | |
| Eva Cassiday Blew Me Away with her cover of Wayfaring Stranger.... Her version of "Over the Rainbow", mentioned above, is incredible. You wouldn’t think anything more could be done with that venerable song, but Eva’s version is a testament. Mike | |
| If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically... Here’s a curious aside. I unfortunately had no luck with the Ayre’s disc, But as bad luck occurs in pairs, today we’ve had a power outage locally, now going on for the past seven hours. In response I hooked up my Honda generator to power the house... | |
| Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good Thought of one more: Bill Evans "Waltz for Debby" | |
| Where should the vocal image be? Usually sounds behind and midway between the speakers, mid-height too. Mike | |
| Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good I’ve other favorites, but these are ones solid throughout.: Janis Joplin/ Big Brother & The Holding Company "Cheap Thrills" Marvin Gaye "What’s Goin’ On" Sex Pistols "Never Mind the Bollocks" John Coltrane "A Love Supreme" Derek and the D... | |
| If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically... A copy of the Ayre disc, the 1.2 version, arrived yesterday. I tried out track seven on it, the one that supposed to demagnetize. I listened to Joni Mitchell’s Blue and Emmylou Harris’ Wrecking Ball CD’s on my Marantz KI Ruby CD player both before... | |
| If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically... Concerning the built up static the Ayres CD may be impacting, has anyone used the Zerostat anti-static gun on their equipment and wiring to good effect. I think it was originally designed for use with records. I’ve not used mine for decades, but ... | |
| If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically... Audioguy,, why do you think the demagnetizing function is absurd? I’m not being sarcastic, just curious. Some tweaks are obviously scams, but it’s sounds possible this might not be one of them. So I wonder why you think it may be, especially since... | |
| If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically... Thanks for the recommend brauser. Thanks for finding places for us to get one zimick and Willy-T. Mines now on order. Sight & Sound in Atlanta carries the Densen De-Magic Demagnetizing CD. Can’t vouch for S&S having never purchased anythin... |