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| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Live music played in an acoustically lousy concert hall is a poor reference. Studer can be a much better one for our purposes. Digital is not a reference at all. This is a good thread to call others names and start a class war in the process. A... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Yeah, $12k cartridge would normally mean $100k front end, including phono stage, tonearm cable and power cords. So it's $250k-$300k for the entire system. Hell, you can still buy a house for this kind of money. Sorry, couldn't help it. | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Still, isn't it remarkable that whatever the analogue front end, nothing so far seems to be able to extract everything there is out of the groove ? Is it the same situation with the tape ? | |
| What is your take on high efficient speakers vs. low efficient speakers? Not my set-up, unfortunately, Kharma/Lamm SET deliver super performance. Kharma is medium efficient, I think. | |
| Does upgrading you system have to be on a logarithmic curve? There is no great sound to be found for under $100k or so, speaking new suggested prices. So unless you can and want to do that just enjoy your system as it is. And I am talking one source system. However, if you must keep upgrading as most of us,... | |
| What is your take on high efficient speakers vs. low efficient speakers? Bass gives a foundation. This is a very big disadvantage of high efficiency design. Not to mention that many just don't tolerate horns. Anyway, it's amp-speakers unit in a particular room, right. | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Forgive me for this. Do you cartridge guys think that Nagaoka MP-500 would be a significant step up from Goldring 1042 ? Nottingham Spacedeck/Spacearm and Acoustech phono stage. | |
| How many plays can you get out of a good record? Exactly. About mistracking. | |
| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. Do some of you guys know how to marry or what ? | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? The best cartridge in the world is no cartridge. It is reel to reel deck playing tapes. However, if true regarding that Grado, it may prove that MC is a flawed design and has always been. That's what some have kept saying for ages. | |
| How many plays can you get out of a good record? If the pressing is reasonably good, records are clean and your turntable set-up is correct I wouldn’t worry much, though I too treat every record with LAST. It is not recommended to play records more often than once every 24 hours, vinyl needs ti... | |
| Which component to upgrade 1st ? I would upgrade the digital source, yeah, if you listen to mostly digital. Otherwise I would upgrade the analogue front end, all of it including phono stage. | |
| Using battery power to go off the City's power grid Song of the Nile by Dead Can Dance. Great stuff. | |
| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. Now, that's crazy - $14k for a refrigerator. $14k for interconnects ?...Well, it depends, I would say. | |
| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. No, I don't have a great sound, I have a not too bad mid-fi probably $17k or so sound. I don't know how much things cost when new. I bought only two components new - cartridge and a pair of interconnects, $500 and $1k respectively. It really gets... |