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| looking for advice to mitigate inner groove distortion Are you absolutely positive all your adjustments are as good as you can get them?....are you sure, the arm is has free motion....not hitting/rubbing on anything? | |
| cartridge question yes....although I haven't heard the Art9, I know the LPS, and like it a lot....just its getting long in the tooothe | |
| Preamps Try to find an Ayre K1xe. with the optional phono and remote | |
| Shorting plugs question On my system they did nothing | |
| To Sell or Keep? of what use is it in storage? | |
| Could-care-less Manufacturers and Authorized Dealers Bash I had a Rowland preamp or amp (don't fully remember- had both) go bad....Rowland sent me (about 3 inch by 3 inch) potted circuit, and a tool to extract the old one.....worked like a charm then sold it.just recently sent an Ayre amp to them for a ... | |
| Degritter brand ultrasonic record cleaner I still have a Nitty Gritty......when the mood strikes me, and I feel I want to get it the best that it can be, I steam clean it. ....cheap and very effective. | |
| Audire Diffet 1 hum If it worked well before, and you didn't do anything new.....added, removed Anything.....it needs to go back to the manufacturer for a look see. | |
| Headphones? I could use your experience/thoughts. Joe Grado was hardly deaf.....he sang for the Met in NY. ....he also drove around in a Lambo.....couldn’t miss him in Westfield, NJ. To the original question.....I strongly recommend getting a dedicated headphone amp for your purchase. All too oft... | |
| Vandersteen 7 mark ll or big Kef blades ..just as an aside.....VPI's Harry W has KEF's in house as his evaluative system. | |
| Which Class D Amplifier? PS Audio, Ghent, Nord, Merrill or other??? I heard the Merrill.....wonderful.....you really wouldn't know it was Class D. Smooth, delicate, powerful, expensive. | |
| How do you like your VPI -Classic, Scout, Scoutmaster, Prime, TNT, ? I have a Superscoutmaster/SDS/rim drive/3D arm/2nd pivot/Classic platter - replaced the feet with Bearpaws ...use it with peripheral clamp, and center weight with 2 dimes (check Harry's website re:2 dimes).....I haven't heard better....had questio... | |
| Klipsch!. The worst speaker company, EVER? The first really good hi end speaker (one)I ever heard was a corner loaded large Klipsch... the demo record (maybe 1958 mono) was Marche Slave (Tschaikovski)... turned me instantly into an audiophile. | |
| Tonearms with no anti-skate adjustment If you hear a bit of mistraking add a tiny more VTF. (you can do that by slightly lowering the tail end). | |
| Need power conditioner advice. In reference to Furman/Tice/PS Audio/Richard Gray. I put Richard Gray in my system and immediately sold it....ruined the sound. This was a few years ago...maybe its different today, but not for me. |