terry9
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| Glare on Choral recordings, classical vocals Well antigrunge, having never heard harshless digital, I would have said the opposite. But your ears are your ears. | |
| How best to eliminate LP warps By 'most imperfections' I meant dishes and warps. | |
| How best to eliminate LP warps @optimize @jw944ts Mistracking and wow are only part of the problem. If you want to get the most from your vinyl, you have to set all TT parameters pretty accurately. That includes stylus azimuth. A dished LP will significantly mess up your azi... | |
| How best to eliminate LP warps I tried a friend's Vinyl Flat, but could not make it work for me. Too impatient, I think. What did work is something very like a vacuum hold-down, a 'reflex clamp', which consists of a small flat dome under the label and a clamp that exerts force... | |
| Turntable noobie...what advice do you have? @charyo +1 And start cheap. Just be aware that the sound can be improved by any and all of the above. Find a retailer that can set up your turntable for you. Practice doing it yourself - on cheap equipment which, if broken, is more irritating t... | |
| Best Phono Stage @chayro nailed it, IMO. Patience is your friend here. It's hard to do, but it pays big dividends. Right now I'm tuning my DIY tonearm, and desperately want to put a big expensive cartridge on it - just to see what it can do. But I'm holding back ... | |
| How to choose a cartridge? I think it is something of a crapshoot. When you audition a cartridge, you are also auditioning the set-up, and set-up is at least as important IMO. By that I mean that I have heard modest cartridges sound very good, and expensive cartridges soun... | |
| Do you build anything for your high fidelity system? If so, what do you make? @asvjerry It's a linear tracker, which I tried to build without compromising rigidity or adjustability. That means expensive off-the-shelf stuff from Igus (costs more to make equivalent quality, IMO), three indexed linear slides and two slides wi... | |
| Do you build anything for your high fidelity system? If so, what do you make? DIY air bearing turntable - design and build from ground up. DIY air bearing tonearm - design and build from ground up. Just installed this weekend!!!!! DIY phono pre - implemented design with ultra components, like vacuum capacitors. DIY amps ... | |
| Top linear trackers It seems to me that the biggest strengths of the Terminator are: 1. adjustability - everything is adjustable. All adjustments are intuitive. VTA and horizontality can be done on the fly. I would wish for more accurate adjustment of tangentiality,... | |
| What is the Bu-ray plauyer that you are using? Sounds like @dwmaggie and I have something in common. Bought the Panasonic BD-UP 9000 when it debuted, about 3 years ago. It's trouble free and superb. Gets top reviews, esp for the price. Mine does play SACD. Also just upgraded my HT to mostly ... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other Thanks @pindac . Could not remember the exact reference. VERY useful. | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other I use a lab grade US tank, made by Elmasonic. Runs at 80KHz or 37KHz - I use 80, and a rotating spindle to run one revolution per 9 minutes. Usually once through is enough, but some garage sale specimens have required 3. Two threads might interes... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other Don't recall if this topic has come up, but have you considered ultra-sonic record cleaning? Big benefits right away - quieter, more revealing - and big benefits delayed - low stylus wear. My own stylus costs a lot to replace, so the US cleaning ... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @rauliruegas To repeat, "I don't think that you do know what his (OP) ears hear and what his system sounds like." Could have added, "with his kind of music." And no, I'm not going to help you derail this discussion. |