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| My Harbeth C7ES-3 story... @kray Congrats on your journey. I have owned Harbeth 30s, 30.1s, P3ESRs and now 40.1s. I have much love for Harbeths. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying them too. They are not for everyone but in my opinion they are very hard to beat. I hope to... | |
| Cartridge Set Up Essentials The Dr. Feickert protractor, while really expensive, is the best I have used. A digital stylus gauge that measures to 1/100 of a gram makes it easy to dial it in. I have a Geo Disk and it works fine, but not as good as the Feickert. I have not ... | |
| Phono Pre Upgrade from Parasound JC-3? Update: I hooked up the BAT VK-P6SE yesterday and listened to three record sides before unplugging it and packing it up to be returned. I'm thoroughly convinced that it's not a good match for my system. The JC3+ blows it away. I have to believ... | |
| Phono Pre Upgrade from Parasound JC-3? @lewm I use the balanced cables between the JC3+ and a Lyngdorf TDAI 3400 amp, which is also balanced. | |
| Mounting Triplanar Tonearm to SME 20/2 Turntable Today my machinist friend confirmed that the SME arm board material is brass. He's going to make the blank version for me out of brass as well. I'm surprised to hear the plinth is aluminum. It's such a heavy turntable, and besides that I would ... | |
| Phono Pre Upgrade from Parasound JC-3? I got a BAT VK-P6SE I'm going to try. If I don't like it I can return it so there's no risk. Always wanted to audition one. | |
| Mounting Triplanar Tonearm to SME 20/2 Turntable I made a temporary arm board last night from aluminum disk material I found online, and mounted the new tonearm. It's not real pretty but it works great. It only cost me about $30 for the materials. At least I can listen to records while a nice... | |
| Mounting Triplanar Tonearm to SME 20/2 Turntable A friend of mine owns a machine shop and has agreed to make one for me. BTW, I think the material for the SME original is brass. I took it off the plinth and noticed it feels much heavier than what aluminum would weigh. I'm going to see if I ca... | |
| Mounting Triplanar Tonearm to SME 20/2 Turntable @atmasphere Thanks for your advice, Ralph. I appreciate it because I know you own a Tri-Planar and it was your recommendation on these forums that I began researching them.For the record, the plinth of the SME deck is not the same material as the... | |
| Mounting Triplanar Tonearm to SME 20/2 Turntable @millercarbon I can drill two holes and might just do that. The third hole is not possible since it's in open space. I could also have a wooden disk cut to the same size circle as the SME arm board and attach the TP arm to it. I don't want to d... | |
| Phono Pre Upgrade from Parasound JC-3? I've heard that's a real good one. Unfortunately it doesn't have balanced outputs. I should have mentioned this in my original post. The JC-3 has balanced outputs and when I switched to balanced cables after using standard RCA I was blown away ... | |
| Blood On The Tracks MoFi UD1S @slaw I agree with you on the Marvin Gaye One Step release. I think it sounds great. Not sure why other folks feel that it does not. | |
| SONT HAP-Z1ES @801dThe HAP-Z1ES has a good reputation, but it's pretty old in relative terms. There are quite a few newer options that are more up to date and compatible with the newest formats. My vote is for the Innuous Zen music server. You can burn your ... | |
| Blood On The Tracks MoFi UD1S @jollytinker I don't think there is anything I could say to convince you that this is worth the money. It really depends on how much you like this album and what you're willing to spend for it. One thing that might help you justify it is that I ... | |
| Blood On The Tracks MoFi UD1S Blood was the first real Dylan album that I fell in love with, and became my favorite of his for years, but as time has passed and I've heard most of his work I can say it's no longer my favorite, and is even sometimes a bit annoying. That said, ... |