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| Best container to move prized records between homes? Thanks! I bought a pallet of boxes double walled from Bags Unlimited to have about 5,000 records moved across the country. I packed them myself, made sure that the riders on my insurance were up to date value (a blanket for the records) and the movers han... | |
| Why aren't all modern vinyl releases 45s? Often, artists have little say in how their recordings are licensed. Audiophile releases are a tiny chunk of the market and 45s are more expensive to cut, press and manufacture, along with additional expenses in packaging and shipping. Steve Hoff... | |
| Gauging interest in a 2008 Continuum Caliburn I am not personally interested but have a few thoughts- you'll obviously need to get more info, like whether the Minus K was retrofitted- I use the big bench top externally on the Kuzma XL with Airline; how is demo/testing of operating condition g... | |
| Perhaps a guilty pleasure.... Musical taste is very personal. There is no hierarchy of "right"- you'll see people deeply into classical that can argue endlessly over the best recorded performance of something that is a staple of classical repertoire. Subjective. Ditto, pop/ro... | |
| SET Distortion at higher volumes? How much power is the amp? I run Lamm ML2- 18 watts each, but speakers are nominally 104db at 1 meter. Never have a problem, I don’t listen at jet take off levels but call it 80db with some higher peaks, C weighted. Could also be other things- mis... | |
| 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... |