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| Turntable Recommendation for Beginner Act- the arm itself is phenomenal and is really little trouble, once it is properly set up. It is well machined, well designed and pretty trouble free to operate. It needs to be absolutely level, and I occasionally clean the tube that the bearing ... | |
| Turntable Recommendation for Beginner The Grados were always wonderful. It was a go-to cartridge for me when i used an ARC SP-10 preamp. While that preamp had a wonderfully juicy phono stage, it was quite noisy, and didn't like low output cartridges. I still have a couple of old Grado... | |
| Turntable Recommendation for Beginner The Zesto has gotten wonderful reviews. I firmly believe that to get what vinyl really has to offer, you have to go to a certain threshold. Admittedly, I have not heard the recent small VPI or any number of others that are in the 2-3000 dollar bal... | |
| Turntable Recommendation for Beginner Act- it should literally read 'it blows,' given the air bearing and pump. Love the arm, hate the pump, which spits oil, sends nasty electrical zaps when it cycles and involves mechanical skills that have little to do with audio- only a Slovenian t... | |
| Turntable Recommendation for Beginner Act- with all due respect, he said two things: beginner, and want stuff comparable to the ARC/B&W,etc equipment he has. As you will note, I started with relatively low budget- I think the WT is under 3k and the VPI less than 6. I'm sure there ... | |
| Turntable Recommendation for Beginner Hey, Map. I didn't get into phono preamps in my earlier posting. Vdosc, are we to assume that you have a good line stage and just need a phono stage? Sorry, i didn't look at your system before asking. I had a very well regarded, pretty expensive p... | |
| Turntable Recommendation for Beginner Budget? The Well Tempered served me well for years. They have a current model that, if memory serves, is relatively inexpensive. There is a VPI Classic that is supposed to be great. It's not crazy money either, and I believe is sold with a good ar... | |
| Aesthetix IO Eclipse We all need to make a leap of faith in this process. And you are right, when there is a general, long-term consensus among folks with a variety of different, high quality systems, and input on appropriate related components, the risk is reduced. | |
| What is a high end stereo SUPPOSED to sound like? This, from Nonoise, has been my experience as well:It only takes a few bad recordings to make me think that something was overlooked, wrong or missed but when a great recording is used, I'm reassured I made the right choice. There is some lessenin... | |
| What is a high end stereo SUPPOSED to sound like? Map, to paraphrase somebody, i draw the line at swamis. | |
| What is a high end stereo SUPPOSED to sound like? It's impossible to define an emotional response, because it is so subjective and cannot be correlated to the normal objective criteria associated with evaluating equipment. Newbee's plight- listening to the system, rather than the music, is a comm... | |
| Output tubes burn-in Didn't know about the West-Johnson connection. Remember Dayton-Wright?Of course i remember the old McIntosh stuff- even owned a few pieces along the way.why don't you email me at bill@flyingreptilemediagroup.comWe can connect offline.Best, | |
| Output tubes burn-in Love it. I think i remember that chair. Issac Hayes was the man. Great story, you could do a blog of audio days gone-by. It would be fun to read.Keep 'em coming.We visited Memphis recently- the bbq was phenomenal, we went out to the 4Way for some ... | |
| Output tubes burn-in You were really there. I remember the KLH 9- I grew up in Pittsburgh and the store which had the highest end stuff was Opus One. Tasso Spanos, the owner, was a KLH 9 devotee. (I think this was in the days of the Janzen tweeters) The 10B was, for m... | |
| Output tubes burn-in Kisawyer: Man, you are really one of the few! They should reserve a place at the museum for your system. The D-51 was a sweet little amp. I vaguely remember the SP-1, honestly can't say if I ever heard it. You are right, of course, that the produc... |