sokogear
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| Happy Holidays and Your Favorite Tips? If you have a room on floors the are not concrete base, address any vibration issues you undeniable have, especially with the turntable, then the speakers. Even with concrete floors, it can't hurt. | |
| Going from MM to MC If you can find a van den Hul dealer, I would recommend his (AJ's) cartridges highly. Great detailed sound, medium output MC with a very long stylus life. There are tons of options, some less expensive, but if you include the ongoing stylus replac... | |
| How good is good enough? It's been good enough for 40 + years. That is not the question. The question is when will you stop trying to make it better? Since the room won't change, I'm pretty much just making my records better by getting better pressings/remasters. Replacin... | |
| Steely Dan UHQR The only audiophile records I see on Amazon are from Speakers Corner and they are spotty at best. Mofi (Music Direct) and Acoustic Sounds don't sell to them, probably because they discount and are big competition to them. | |
| Steely Dan UHQR Agree @goodlistening64 - get rid of the extra packaging we don't need and charge $60 like they do for the other 45s on MFSL or Acoustic Sounds. At $150 a pop, these are only going to be bought for my very favorite albums. Acoustic Sounds increases... | |
| Steely Dan UHQR @jayctoy - not sure what you are talking about with the Gaucho UHQR. It hasn't been released yet. I won't get that one as I have it on an excellent Japanese pressing, and it is my 3rd favorite SD album (after Aja and Royal Scam). Aja is probably ... | |
| "I'm a believer" Don't forget that speakers are the end of the signal path and can only deliver what the amp gives it, which can only deliver what the preamp gives it, etc. Also a big part of the speaker cost is the material and construction cost of the cabinet,... | |
| Does a record player make that much of a difference?? Consider the base of the turntable and its ability to isolate the table from footfalls, vibrations from the speakers and form earthquakes (measurable in very minor increments which affect the sound that you would never know about)_ disctintly from... | |
| Have you found your "End-Game" speakers yet? I have. And it feels so good!!! I had a pair of Alons for 25 years that were great and I had to replace the paper woofers about 8 years in. I liked them a lot and changed quite unexpectedly just before Covid hit because I came across a close out deal on a pair of brand new KEF R... | |
| Vinyl record storage in Harvey's office, Suits TV show It annoyed me terribly that the records were not perfectly vertical. Great show until Mike & Rachel left. | |
| At what price is one considered an Audiophile. There is no $ amount as a price of admission. For me it is about the rush I get when I hear something new or different in a record that sounds better. At times it may be from a minor change that has big impact or a relatively bigger change that m... | |
| It's almost like poll, but certainly more fun I like wearing a watch especially when you need to see the time discreetly without signaling to someone that is what you are doing, like rudely looking at your phone. I got a Rolex 20 + years ago after getting sick of the depreciation other nice ... | |
| Five feet from the front wall A long time ago I noticed a big improvement moving my speakers so the backs of them (which has ports for the bass) are 3 feet from the wall behind them. It was surprising because I didn't move them out all that much. Maybe 6 inches. I have a crede... | |
| Upgrade my older Linn Sondek or move on? You mentioned plug and play. The Rega P8 is the definition of that and can be had in the low $3K range and if you put it on a wall shelf on top of a Townshend platform (I think around $5-600 nowadays since Max passed away unexpectedly) you will e... | |
| What is turntable “liveliness”. A perfect TT has no sound. It measures vibrations and that is probably what you consider lively. If it is perfectly isolated, then you have to look at the internal noise it makes. Saying eliminating that, they are all the same, is a ridiculous sta... |