colossalsound
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| MM vs. MC: What Happens When People Jump Into MC Too Early? Dear @jooky10000 After looking more carefully at your system and the music you listen to, I have to admit that my initial instinct to focus on the turntable was probably wrong. In this case, @rauliruegas ’s approach of looking further upstream i... | |
| MM vs. MC: What Happens When People Jump Into MC Too Early? How Much Do You Really Need to Spend for Great Vinyl Sound? Before discussing budgets, cartridges, tonearms, or turntables, we need to answer a more important question: Why vinyl at all? Ten or fifteen years ago, the answer was relatively simpl... | |
| MM vs. MC: What Happens When People Jump Into MC Too Early? Dear @rauliruegas With all due respect to your considerable experience, I can’t agree with the idea that a turntable does not contribute its own sonic character. Perhaps, in theory, it shouldn’t. In practice, however, my experience has been exac... | |
| MM vs. MC: What Happens When People Jump Into MC Too Early? Dear @jooky10000 I think you have run into exactly the situation I was describing in the article. One of the more frustrating realities of analog playback is that not every upgrade turns out to be an upgrade in the way we expect. Sometimes we g... | |
| MM vs. MC: What Happens When People Jump Into MC Too Early? Dear @neonknight I actually agree that if my article is interpreted the way you interpreted it, it would sound like pure elitism. The problem is that I was trying to answer a somewhat different question. My articles are generally written for p... | |
| MM vs. MC: What Happens When People Jump Into MC Too Early? Dear @jr1000 You understood the main point of my article exactly as I intended it. The article was really about not driving ourselves crazy chasing improvements for the sake of improvements until we have the opportunity to make upgrades that ar... | |
| MM vs. MC: What Happens When People Jump Into MC Too Early? Dear @elliottbnewcombjr Your turntable setup immediately tells me that you’ve been serious about vinyl for a long time. The fact that you maintain a dedicated mono cartridge alone suggests both a substantial record collection and a level of c... | |
| MM vs. MC: What Happens When People Jump Into MC Too Early? Dear @rauliruegas I know your article very well. Furthermore, that article was very polular in Russia in 2010-2016 - it was translated and reposted on many forums. I persinally collected and tested several MM cartridges using that article like the... | |
| MM vs. MC: What Happens When People Jump Into MC Too Early? Iarsman, that is exactly what I would expect, and in a way your experience actually confirms the point I was trying to make in the article. You didn’t move from the Charisma to just another cartridge in roughly the same price bracket. You crossed... | |
| MM vs. MC: What Happens When People Jump Into MC Too Early? Iewn, the goal was not so much to compile a list of the greatest non-MC cartridges ever made, but rather to provide guidance for beginners looking for a quick, reliable, and affordable solution. Personally, I actually prefer the sound of ADC to S... | |
| MM vs. MC: What Happens When People Jump Into MC Too Early? Jasonbourne, actually the article is exactly about that - you may have an excellent sonic experience without spending a fortune. However, a 35K analog front end is actually nothing special. People build even more expensive toys. On the turntable y... | |
| FREE HIGH-END AUDIO SETUP CONSULTATIONS My friend, that’s all the point - you didn’t read. Not only I had abundance, I think I had what most people on this forem have multiple 20. Simply because I’ve been a professional dealer for more than 10 years. At some poimt you’re completely righ... | |
| FREE HIGH-END AUDIO SETUP CONSULTATIONS Why the Denon DL-301 Still Matters While editing my article on REFERENCE VINYL RECORDINGS, I opened an old collection of recordings made over several years while I was actively experimenting with vintage MC cartridges, tonearms, step-up transf... | |
| FREE HIGH-END AUDIO SETUP CONSULTATIONS Reference Vinyl Recordings — What Are We Actually Striving For? Before I begin publishing a series of articles about improving vinyl playback systems — whether through targeted upgrades to an existing setup or through a more carefully matched com... | |
| To LP Listeners: Fozgometer Experiences... The files offered for listening here are not some random low-resolution samples taken from the internet. They were personally recorded by me using the same professional recorder in DSD 5.6 format, under identical recording conditions throughout th... |