wolfie62
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| The Great Cartridge Shootout Why didn’t you just spare us all the BS and self-inflicted delays? I didn’t care a whip about that. Same with the ax throwing. Who cares?i have 11 pivot arm tables, 90 cartridges. I never go into the song and dance of the 10 minutes to align. Why ... | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! There are LOTS of remedies out there for trying to measure skate. For AS, this looks credible. Certainly a way to check calibration of your arm’s AS mechanism. For THAT alone it’s worth checking!Thanks!! | |
| Looking for a new integrated amp SAE Two A14. Hands down. No contest. | |
| Is 1990's equipment vintage? Vintage isn’t JUST the number of years it’s been around. It’s that, plus the build/design philosophy that puts the gear in a special catagory.Pretty hard to put any gear chock full of off-the-shelf integrated circuits into its “own” catagory. Hard... | |
| Cartridge reliability I have 18 ADC carts, 1963-1983, still tip top. 1962 Empire 880P. Perfect.1958 and 1960 GE carts. Perfect.1963-2001 15 Shure carts. Perfect.Ortofon? 2 bad ones last 5 years. 4 bad AT styli. | |
| The secret to a great amplifier... ......and a less expensive alternative fuse to the Orange fuse is the Banana fuse. Below that, a gum wrapper works well. | |
| Relative Spending on Turntables and Cartridges So....Since I spent $75,000 on my table, I’ve got to spend $100,000 on my cartridge. I only spent $11,000. | |
| Equipment purchase that made you want to get off the Merry Go Round (good or Bad) Bought my receiver in 1981. First and last. Speakers in 1989; 2nd and last. TT in 1984, 2nd and last. Cartridges....I have 90 carts. But I rotate the 20 I like best. | |
| Question regarding subwoofers I have a single 8” dual vc Velodyne DLS (Servo) powered sub. DSP crossover. Remote control. -3 dB at 32 Hz. I have it crossed over at 100 Hz. Bass always sounds like it’s coming from wherever the imaging says it should be, whether center, back, le... | |
| What's the best and/or favorite piece of equipment you've owned? And do you still own it? First cartridge: NAD 9300, still have.First receiver, Sherwood S9600 CP, still have.Fist speakers, Polk RTA 12, still have.First tape deck, Technics RM240X, still have.Ive ADDED many components since 1981. | |
| Cartridge recommendation please... This is a false statement:A Grado MI (moving-iron) is an easy recommendation! The advantage over MM-types is immunity from cable and input stage capacitance. MI is identical to MM carts in every respect. Only difference is that MI uses a VIRTUAL M... | |
| The most criminal practice in the speaker industry revealed!! Keep reading Who cares about specs??i don’t look at specs when I buy a car?Mo sir!I just told the dealer at the high end audio shop I had $25,000 to spend on speakers. He fixed me up!I don’t need no stinkin specs!! | |
| Speakers hung from ceiling on aircraft cable. Back in 1985-1987, I suspended my small Polk Monitor 4As. I used a finished wood base, with 3 brass eyescrews, just bigger than the speaker base. I used black nylon braid fishing line to a brass ring; brass chain to a ceiling hook into the ceiling... | |
| cost no object integrated amps SAE Two A14.Best integrated EVER designed and built. Period! | |
| According to the RIAA, It doesn't look good for physical media My 53 still sealed dbx discs I paid $2 each for in 1990 are up to over $200 now.I inherited 4000 LPs from my folks, 1/2 still sealed. None of my older brothers and sisters wanted them. Until now. Nope! Not getting them!My mother worked at Columbia... |