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| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @albertporter Albert's list of TTs and arms that he remembers using/owning kind of cracks me up. So glad to see you contributing here Albert. The rest of yas, love you too. :) | |
| Ultimate stereo nightmare To the OP: you attribute this to your failings of age and you forget that this isn’t uncommon if you are an audiophile. If you find it difficult to crawl around and sort out a cable mess or noise within your system, you need to find somebody who i... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @mijostyn - my oversight and certainly not meant as a slight to you. Consider yourself invited. Formula 1 is crazy town here. All restaurants packed, many locals used to leave town during the music portion of SXSW, but they've scaled it back and t... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @mijostyn - Didn’t mean to turn this into a full length book, but to finish, taking some of your questions, I had both arms on the XL for a little while but at a certain point, found I could not get the Minus K to do its thing--it wasn’t load per ... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @mijostyn -sorry about that-school starts tomorrow (I teach part-time) and there's always a lot of last minute stuff no matter how well prepared you are. I bought the big Minus K bench top rated for a 250 lb load because I was concerned about foo... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @mijostyn - thanks for the comments and thoughts. I'll reply more fully when I have more time. I hope you are feeling better. Bill | |
| If you had $12k / £10k to upgrade your analogue front-end... I’m not going to recommend a brand-- there is loyalty among those satisfied with what they arrived at- but instead, suggest some considerations: 1. Can you change arms. How good is the arm that comes with the table (if so) and what is its range o... | |
| Cartridge check Ask about turn-around time. | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? Thank you, @thekong. I had a client who had a Rockport table and we spent the evening listening to his system. I liked that table a lot. I can't remember the cartridge, it was quite a long time ago. Happy to you too! | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @lewm- it is an H3000 which I got from a guy in Texas named Porter, when he distributed the line in the States. I only roll the rectifier and my fav for my system voicing is a GEC u-52, another not so easy to find tube these days. (I did get a NIB... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @albertporter -Albert, thanks for weighing in. I think this did address the OP’s question directly based on your experience. @mijostyn - I’m not taking "shots" at you and feel for you if you are suffering from an influenza. As you might recall, ... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? Fwiw, I visited the always lovely Albert Porter recently. If I recall, he was a fan of the SME V and is currently using a pair of the John Holmes version of the Kuzma 4 Pt. on his SP-10mkIII, installed on the Porter Panzerholz plinth of his design... | |
| What is the best way to clean Vinyl? Yes, indeed @clearthinker the engineer working on the Les Paul tracks was using a Simon Yorke and there is a photo of some of his set up in this article: | |
| What is the best way to clean Vinyl? @clearthinker - thanks for the kind words. It’s been a learning experience for me. I bought some of the harder to find Vertigo Swirls that didn’t clean up in the then relatively novel Audio Desk ultrasonic, and that took me back to manual cleaning... | |
| What is the best way to clean Vinyl? @lewm- in fairness, the very first response in this thread was the suggestion to read Neil Antin's work, which is available for free. Yes, it is voluminous but explains the chemistry and steps, the fairly minimal equipment needed and why the steps... |