wolfie62
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| Does it improve the sound of a MM or MI cartridge by playing it through a phono stage? I’ve got several AcuTex carts. All this hoopla and hand-wringing about preamps, over a clone of an AT cart!Really?? The Acutex carts are just unauthorized copies of run-of-the-Mill AT carts. Instead of V magnets, it has mumetal “Mickey Mouse” ears... | |
| Will a $700 turntable outperform a CD player? I’ve been playing records since 1965. That was on my dad’s Garrard and HH Scott receiver and Wharfdale speakers. I enjoy records immensely!i also have CDs. I also have streaming digital sources. I dont spend a lot on vinyl, not on my (14) turntabl... | |
| Good Stereo Speakers for outside use during BBQs, evening pot luck dinners etc In 1997 I bought a set (5) of the BIC speakers. Plastic ported pods. 5-1/4” MW, polypropylene with butyl rubber surrounds, 1” polycarbonate tweeters. They’ve been doing duty outside since 1998. 22 years! Still sound and work great! Nice bass, but ... | |
| Don't like vinyl I hate vinyl too!!i prefer aluminum. Vinyl let’s in too much light. Plus, vinyl sags. | |
| A warm DAC? I thought digital sourced media was supposed to be perfect!So, the same folks who OFTEN bash those who talk of the merits of vinyl, are now looking for a “warm” DAC????!It SHOULDNT matter! It’s digital, right??Me? I prefer the infinite resolution ... | |
| is it possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl To make digital sound like vinyl, just digitize an LP.Short of that, you have to make your limited resolution 24 bit files into infinite (0 samples) resolution files. I don’t think that’s possible. | |
| Wow an old album that rocked your world 1982. I bought a TELDEC, Hamberg Germany pressing, RCA Red Seal Digital of Eduardo Mata “Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Night On Bare Mountain”. Hadn’t listened to it in 38 years! Absolutely mind blowing!!!! | |
| What would you do if items from Ebay had beenlost? I solved this 12 years ago. All packages from USPS, FedEx, UPS have standing orders, plus a sign, plus hiRes cameras, to deliver in my box on my porch. It is a steel box, painted in Wife-Approved paint, bolted to my concrete porch. Lid stays open ... | |
| Unreal prices Eve even back in the 70s, there were MANY better performing amps/receivers than the Pioneers. Its the uneducated that are driving up the prices on those units! But have at it! As long as they continue to OVER VALUE those Japanese units, they’ll UN... | |
| New TT for ~$1500 If I were spending $1,500 on a new table, Rega and Project wouldn’t even make the bottom of that list! WAY overpriced for what you don’t get! Technics wouldn’t make the bottom of that list, either! Japanese glam table. | |
| Why no interest in reel to reel if you're looking for the ultimate sound? $2,000 for vinyl setup??!i have a good friend who rescues RTR decks, repairs them, restores them, aligns them, etc. Nothing to spend $500-$700 on a RTR needing serious servicing. He gets great results! But he spends a mint in blank tape or rare re... | |
| The Forest for the Trees “I’m cleaning and Donna and I are listening to over 2,500 LPs now?”You must have one helluva record changer!! | |
| Any experience with these turntables? As for which table will be in need of the MOST TLC, that’s the Garrard Zero 100. That tonearm only works well if it’s in absolute first rate condition! Any stiction, any binding, any wear, any damage, and it will malfunction! If you are very mecha... | |
| A Soundsmith Re-tip Believer Ive written to Soundsmith about my Empire EDR.9 cartridge. The styli are extremely rare, but I have 2 carts and 2 styli, one used, one NOS NIB.It’s an MI cart, tapered aluminum canti, LC nude stylus. At the end of the canti it has an inertial damp... | |
| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science Dentistry? AI? Self driving cars (something mandated by the U.N., BTW! I wonder why?), Bootie awards?i thought I’d actually find an adult conversation in here....I was badly mistaken!I was going to discuss my research into “imaging” among various ... |