whart
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| Magnepan Service HORRIBLE??? My take:1. Magnepan should have communicated with you promptly once they received the damaged speakers and should not have waited five weeks to give you an estimate. I assume you now have the estimate and the insurance claim is in process, right?2... | |
| Magnepan Service HORRIBLE??? Tom, in my experience, while a phone call is good for a nudge, there is something about creating a written record that lights a fire under people.I haven't dealt with Maneplanar since the early days, but they have a good rep. I would write the let... | |
| Magnepan Service HORRIBLE??? My suggestion, based on a lot of professional experience in dealing with problems (as a lawyer): write a brief, and balanced letter to the President and a few other top executives at the company, explaining that you bought the speakers used, they ... | |
| Turntable Recommendation for Beginner Vdosc: you've gotten a range of good suggestions, but now that you have narrowed it to a decent starter table, my vote, for set and forget (once a dealer does the set-up competently), would be the VPI Traveler. VPI makes no nonsense tables (includ... | |
| Turntable Recommendation for Beginner Thanks Moon, I ain't in the market. Just bought an Allnic H3000 and couldn't be happier. | |
| 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. |