terry9
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| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other You are in a very good space. I suggest that for $2500 more you can avoid making a costly mistake and find audio Nirvana. Take a listening holiday to NY and hear some turntables. Find what YOU like, not what someone else likes. Also, suggest bei... | |
| Interesting information from Analog Planet on Stylus Cleaner Onzow Zero Dust. @daveyf Alas, we have no idea how many of them perceived something but did nothing about it. Perhaps they had no access to a good lab, Perhaps they put it down to stylus wear. | |
| Interesting information from Analog Planet on Stylus Cleaner Onzow Zero Dust. I've seen a stain form on my graphite platter when exposed to a gel which looks and feels a lot like Zero-dust. So I would take @mijostyn 's caution seriously. As for waiting until the cantilever is so bunged up with goop that you can hear it, we... | |
| Interesting information from Analog Planet on Stylus Cleaner Onzow Zero Dust. @dover Yes, I can believe that about fluid residue. Before I had my Koetsu photomicrographed, I cleaned it with 95% pure ethanol. 40 hours later the pump on the electron microscope couldn't pull a sufficient vacuum because of off-gassing - and t... | |
| Silver v Copper wire phono cable @dover Well, that's one opinion. So elegantly put. And with such certainty. Convince many people, Dover? | |
| Silver v Copper wire phono cable From the Koetsu website: "The coils of the Rosewood Signature Platinum are made of 6N copper wire, painstakingly clad with a silver jacket." | |
| Your Favorite Christmas Song-One only Please- Thank you, @akg_ca . That's uplifting in a barren season. "Julsang" by Marianne Melnas, on Cantate Domino (Proprius). | |
| You Cant Buy It but you Can Build It That's how I feel about my system, all analogue. Mostly built by me, the ESL speakers heavily modified. The cartridge remains in original condition. The satisfaction is only part of it - you just can't buy much which is made without compromise. | |
| Solid state amp recommendations for Maggies? Bryston. Talk to the factory for factory reconditioned pieces - they pack a 5 year warrantee on top of anything remaining from the original sale. I am currently using a 4SST for a sub and a MP woofer in the HT - and it's very, very good. | |
| RCA interconnect recommendation Cables are the worst bang for buck in the system. If you feel the need to spend much more money, you would do much better to upgrade a component. That said, cables do sound subtley different. Since you already have cabling that works, I suggest t... | |
| Turntable versus tonearm versus cartridge: which is MOST important? Don’t quite understand, Raul. What parameters, other than the physical, do you mean? | |
| Turntable versus tonearm versus cartridge: which is MOST important? Agree with most of what you say, but the increment from a 10K turntable to a 3D air bearing was huge. Same tonearm, same cartridge. | |
| Turntable versus tonearm versus cartridge: which is MOST important? Let's just forget about argument by analogy. This question has three components: physics, psychology (perception and taste), and economics (bang for the buck). Only the last is easy, because cartridges wear out. Psychology is obviously personal. ... | |
| Can You Hear Me Now Agreed, before we can discuss this intelligently we need to see the documentation. And hear the implementation. Hence my question. | |
| The return of the DIYer Thing about DIY is that you can afford technology that you otherwise couldn't. Anybody priced turntables with air bearings in all 3 dimensions lately? Or phonos with vacuum capacitors? |