whart
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| The best TT system for under 30K As I've gotten older, Inna, I have less need to be "right." The process is more interesting than the result in some cases, which may be one explanation for audiophilia. | |
| The best TT system for under 30K We are limited as much by what we know as what we don't. | |
| The best TT system for under 30K @chakster - I think your taking shots at the high end through this new user's thread is a little misplaced. You seem to know old MM cartridges well based on what I've seen and that's a valuable contribution. The turntable this person bought is a g... | |
| The best TT system for under 30K My pleasure. Enjoy it. I think you will be happy and will not need to upgrade anything for a long time on that front. Hi, @terry9 ! (uwiikz, Terry9 is a very good contributor here who I haven't spoken to in a while). Bill Hart | |
| The best TT system for under 30K -@lalitk I’ve had this system, in roughly this form, sans those woofers, for a long time. The Lamms I’ll probably never part with; the Avantgarde is not cost effective these days and if I have to replace, I may go another route. Yes, the big woofe... | |
| The best TT system for under 30K Good for you, @uwiikz. I’d recommend that you pay to have the dealer do the initial set up for you. Yes, it is good to know how to do this yourself, but your first go round with this table (or lacking recent experience with TT set up generally) re... | |
| The best TT system for under 30K As I mentioned upthread, I had a Kuzma Reference and upgraded to the XL some time ago. The XL is a better table and its "sound" is better because there is less of it (you aren't hearing as many artifacts of vinyl playback). The bass is also extrem... | |
| The best TT system for under 30K I have an original XL with 2 motors and the Airline arm, and upgraded from a Kuzma Reference with Triplanar. There was a world of difference in presentation- mainly in the absence of the sense of a turntable spinning. You don’t know it until it is... | |
| Wow, $10k+ cables I don't usually weigh in on threads talking about pricing of the high end (except for the cost of high end cartridges which are consumables though I use them). But, anyone who is already out on the cutting edge and has the wherewithal can spend li... | |
| Others like QRP? Pallas and RTI are both good, and Optimal is solid too. Part of this may be attributable to what the sound recording owner/label/client is willing to pay for and part of it may be equipment/personnel at the plants, but a huge factor in my estimati... | |
| The Decline of the Music Industry True there, @bob540 and kinda vapid post-Kardashian twerking, etc. but remember the Elvis hip grind was considered too risqué for TV back in the day? Sex definitely sells. It's certainly part of the appeal of music videos going back to the MTV era... | |
| Guttenberg and Quad Electrostatics The old Quad can actually reproduce some bass given the large-ish panel size so they work for small jazz combos, any smaller scale stuff; it isn’t what I would play Sabbath on at high db because that isn’t what the speaker’s strength is-- but voic... | |
| The Decline of the Music Industry Nobody was ever able to predict what would hit. There were some notable record men (I can’t think of any women who ran labels back in the day) who had a good ear, or were artist friendly. Mo Ostin at Warners in the ’70s built a substantial empire,... | |
| Guttenberg and Quad Electrostatics Dunno. I have a pair of Quads I bought in 73-74 that I had refurbished a couple years ago that run in my second, vintage system. And I switched to horns in my main system from a pair of Crosby modded Quad 63’s back in 2006 when I finally signed up... | |
| Stereo systems are like Harleys Weekend Warriors? Accessorizing because from the factory, the thing is kind of disappointing? Weight to power ratio? I dunno. I had a "not real Harley"-- a V-Rod which was a great motor in search of a frame that didn't flex, had brakes that didn't... |