wrm57
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| MoFi "Mobile Fidelity" Master Phono. Thanks guys, this is helpful. I’m thinking about bringing one in from MD to supplement my Allnic H3000. It’s been ages since I’ve heard an SS phono in my system, and I’m very curious about the current option for my low DCR carts. Can always return... | |
| MoFi "Mobile Fidelity" Master Phono. Giving a bump. Anyone heard thus unit yet? | |
| Review of Quadratic MC-1 SUT With Comparisons to Other SUTs Returning to this excellent thread, which serves as a handy reference guide on SUTs... @mulveling, by now you’ve no doubt received your EAR MC4. How does it stack up against the MC3 and, by extension, the others mentioned in your exemplary compari... | |
| How Soon Do You Realize You Don't Like a Piece of Gear? This weekend realized in one LP side that I don’t much like the Rothwell MDX I bought from MD last week. It’s a demo, from the looks well-traveled, so I doubt break in was the issue. Further listening confirmed my initial reaction. Requested a ret... | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? For the past few months, a DS Audio ST-50 when I feel like it, typically every 5 or 6 sides. Before that, a slice of Magic Eraser on a business card. If I can actually see anything on the stylus, I touch it first with the short- bristled Ortofon b... | |
| Tube amps under $7500 Oh, sorry, I missed the stipulation for balanced input. The Aric is single-ended, at least mine. You could ask him about balanced. | |
| Tube amps under $7500 Look into Aric Audio. For $5k, the Transcend Push-Pull is a steal. It runs a variety of output tubes, all in Class A, which makes big difference to my ears, and it sounds terrific. I borrowed the top Prima Luna and found it decidedly substandard. ... | |
| How Soon Do You Realize You Don't Like a Piece of Gear? The H3000 is a high bar, especially if you’ve rolled the rectifier and tried alternative footers under the power supply. I’ve been running mine for a decade. The best rectifier I’ve found is the Riccardo Kron Anniv 5u4g. Many people like Stillpoin... | |
| Speakers On Wheels? @soix +1 on the Herbies rec. I use the Giant Gliders under 3 sets of speakers that I slide in and out of a large closet adjacent to my listening room. I think they sound good. And they certainly make moving heavy speakers on hardwood floors extrem... | |
| Mastersound evolution 845 vs. Jadis da88s vs auris forte 150 Congrats! I bet it will sound glorious. | |
| Brinkmann Edison MKII Phono Amp That is really quite funny, the Forehead School of Shakespeare scholarship. Bust out the calipers! Physiognomy lives again in English Departments! | |
| Brinkmann Edison MKII Phono Amp @pindac Not that I get too excited about Shakespeare. Well, I’d say that’s your loss, especially with your apparent love of language. But to each their own. Now, in an attempt to bend my tangent from Shakespeare back toward Brinkmann, I’ll ad... | |
| Brinkmann Edison MKII Phono Amp @pindac I completely enjoyed your last post. So Lear’s famous complaint would be something like: “I am a man more shot at and missed than shooting,” which has an eery currency in the power politics of delusional victimhood. | |
| The receiver was my intro to HiFi! What say you? Like @motown-l , I started audiophilia with a Pioneer SX-525 and an idler. In my case a Dual 1214 with a Stanton cart of some sort. This was in 1973. Speakers were Marantz 4G, which I doubled and stacked a year later. Then Koss headphones. I loved... | |
| Ikea Kallax Vinyl Record Storage: Which version have you used? I use the predecessor to the Kallax, whatever it was called. It has 5x5 squares and seems identical. I modded it by screwing a 2-inch strip of wood across the back of each row of squares as a backstop. The open back doesn’t bother me about dust be... |