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| What do you do when you get a bad vinyl record pressing? @lewn, @tablejockey, @kennyc +1 Yes! donating a record gives you a great feeling. Seeing the enjoyment on a person’s face is priceless when they find out you are giving them the album and don’t want anything for it. Donating to a vinyl store is a... | |
| What do you do when you get a bad vinyl record pressing? @mikelavigne, I concur with your digitally sourced pressings paragraph. I don't seek them out but in several cases I've crossed that line in search for the best sounding. The last two I recall are Steven Wilson remixes of Aqualung and Songs From T... | |
| What do you do when you get a bad vinyl record pressing? We didn't notice bad pressings as much in the '80's and '90's because we all had processors. We prided ourselves on getting the music to sound as good as we could make it sound with all of the levers on the equalizer. I also had a dbx 3bx III whic... | |
| New vs uses in your current setup Current rig is 80% new 20% used of the major components; tt, phono pre, preamp, power amps, speakers. | |
| Sound right before song begins on vinyl, what is it? Audible pre echo, cool topic. In the afore mentioned thread I was wondering how long it was going to be before somebody referenced "Whole Lotta Love?" At this point it would seem artificial if we didn’t hear it. Less organic not authentic. Our b... | |
| Why so many AQ Hurricane PC's for sale? @marco1 Good to know. Yes they're balanced, NAT Audio Magma M monos coming from NAT Audio Symmetrical Balanced Line Stage. | |
| Why so many AQ Hurricane PC's for sale? I’ve tried lots of different PC’s and IC’s. I just put a new XLR between the pre and power amps last night. Cardas Parsec from a dealer sold as authentic, used. I had pro XLR’s in there because it’s a 6 meter run. My initial thoughts are I’m not s... | |
| How close are you to being to your endgame? My system outline and I'm almost there. I’m there. Maybe add a second tonearm and mono cartridge down the road? Perhaps a different power conditioner someday? A six meter XLR run of Cardas Clear from the amp to monos might be nice too someday? But yeah definitely got the rig at the endg... | |
| Does cover art of an album or recording influences your purchase? When buying vinyl the only things that matters to me are 1) I have to like 70-80% of the entire album to consider purchasing it because I like to listen to at least one side of the album at a time, most often the whole record. 2) It must be the be... | |
| Best amplification for Magico S3 newer version on your experience I have the A3's. The best sounding amps I've tried are high amplification SET mono blocks. I'm finally at audio nirvana with NAT Audio Magma M mono blocks. A buddy has the S7's. He has VAC 450iq Statement mono blocks. He once told me that in ord... | |
| What happened to Yamaha electronics? I bought the A-S3000 brand new. It was an upgrade sonically from their flagship integrated from 1985, the A-1000. However the A-1000 had a ton more power. Both amps were rated at 150 wpc @ 8ohms. I used the same speakers to compare. I thought th... | |
| Interim SS Amp - Likely Candidates? I haven’t tired one of these yet but I’ve watched and read a lot of reviews about the Harman Kardon 930 Twin Power receiver. There’s a complete one with the box available on Ebay right now that fits your budget range. I’m going to be putting a HK... | |
| Does other Audiogon members' opinion carry any weight for you ? In one way or another this forum has had an influence on my rig. I first learned about my phono pre from reading threads on this forum. After speaking with Keith Herron on and off over a couple of years he called me and asked if I still wanted hi... | |
| How much do I need to spend to make vinyl sound better than digital? Spend as much as you can on your vinyl front end also include software and ultrasonic cleaning machine. You only live once. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Select tracks from: Prince-The Vault, Led Zeppelin-Houses of the Holy, John Coltrane-Ballads, Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese Dream, The Rolling Stones-Let it Bleed, The Police-Zenyatta Mondatta. A buddy was over for two hour a listening session. It w... |