sokogear
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| Experience with Townshend Seismic Podiums on Concrete Floor (they're great) @hilde45 - I would be the Symposium platforms are better for distortion/noise drainage and the Townshend podiums are better for isolation. I needed more isolation for my turntable and drainage for my speakers, so that's why I use both companies. ... | |
| Experience with Townshend Seismic Podiums on Concrete Floor (they're great) I have tall, thinnish floor standers sitting on a wood floor suspended over a crawl space. They came with extending arms with spikes/discs and sat on top of the floor. I use Townshend's seismic platform under my turntable with superb results, but ... | |
| Best turntable under $4000 +1 Rega P8. Fantastic arm designed for the table. Just be sure to put on a wall shelf or some kind of suspension system (or both like I did) because it weighs only 10 pounds!. With a really good cartridge will put you over $4K by a little and by e... | |
| Is there anything better than live recordings? The songs are usually performed differently and sometimes with more energy. If they are well recorded, produced, mastered, pressed, etc., you are missing out if you don’t have some in your library. Al Jarrwau Look to the Rainbow, George Benson Wee... | |
| Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options? Peter is a great guy, very helpful and tells you when his soluti9ns won’t help, and offers a money back guarantee (unless you get them custom sized). | |
| Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options? Since vibration control is not really an issue with concrete floors, you may want to try a speaker platform like the Symposium Segues I use under my tower speakers to clean them up from internal vibrations inside the cabinet. They can be custom si... | |
| Want to add vinyl to my system. You don't match a phono stage to a turntable! You match it to a cartridge, which you match to an arm. I have a P8, which I love (make sure to isolate/suspend it properly), especially the RB 880 arm it comes with, a Sutherland LPS Insight phono st... | |
| Starting Point for Room Treatments? +1 for GIK acoustics. I appreciated their honesty when basically saying there wasn't much I can do because or the windows in the corner almost touching a few feet off the floor, and open spaces. Moving my speakers 3 feet from the wall were a gigan... | |
| What are your top 3 favorite female singers? Pure voice: Linda Ronstadt Stevie Nicks Sade | |
| High-end-turntables Why would you ever wire money for anything? A tell tale sign of a scam. | |
| Confession: I only like Norah Jones because so many others told me to I think she is played to make stereos sound their best, same as Diana Krall. Although Diana is a looker - Elvis got a winner. For women singers, Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Nicks, Bonnie Raitt, Sade are tops in my book. If you want a Nora Jones type s... | |
| End Game Turntable suggestions +1 @mijostyn - great post. OP - Even though you have stone floors, I would recommend getting the Rega P10 (or P8 and get a great cartridge which is very close in quality at about 55% of the price) with a suspension externally since one is not bui... | |
| I have found out why new cables and tweaks actually work! Funny, dust does have na impact on sound. That's why I swipe an Audioquest brush to remove it before every cartridge drop across and then up toward the center of the record - no fluid to gunk it up. Also occasionally brush the stylus with a tiny b... | |
| The revolution has begun! Isn't this an unpaid infomercial? I thought that wasn't allowed here. | |
| What is this Beatles UHQR Collection? The only Beatles UHQR ever made was Sgt Pepper (form Mofi) in the early 80s. I also have the Beatles collection box set on Mofi (which has every US released album included). Although the Sgt Pepper album within the collection is the traditional Mo... |