whart
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| Manufacturers pushing their products and agenda in the forums. I'll tell you a short story about my experience at Audiogon and leave it at that. I lurked here for several years but signed up in around 2005 because I had a question about transitioning from Crosby Quads to horns. Fred Crowder was kind enough to... | |
| Is it possible to have vinyl nearly noise free? Mijostyn- those digital microscopes- at least the cheap ones- are a little tricky. The 'frame' of view with high magnification is very limited- obviously, and care must be taken to mount the microscope in a way that it is aimed properly and doesn'... | |
| Manufacturers pushing their products and agenda in the forums. The culture of a chat board is measured by its members, not the moderators. | |
| Manufacturers pushing their products and agenda in the forums. @cleeds - au contraire- I said it should be monetized and badged, rather than wholesale censorship. | |
| Manufacturers pushing their products and agenda in the forums. I don't view it as protection for anyone but myself- to avoid the noise. My alternative has been simply to avoid some threads altogether. I'm not sure it is a question of free speech since that isn't directly applicable (so far) to private interne... | |
| Is it possible to have vinyl nearly noise free? @mijostyn- I haven’t used an Ortofon since the mid-70s. I will use a bit of alcohol applied to a pad type stylus brush, e.g. the "brush" type Ortofon and many others sell, but I usually only do it sparingly, not regularly, and more in cases of ext... | |
| Manufacturers pushing their products and agenda in the forums. I share your view and had suggested a couple alternatives to Admin- if somebody is posting as a dealer to peddle or promote, they should have some badge identifying them and charge them for that privilege (in the same way as "Insider"). For those ... | |
| Is it possible to have vinyl nearly noise free? I took a quick look and didn't find it, but that doesn't mean much- partly due to how the classical stuff isn't completely organized here. When I moved a couple years ago, I kind of back-binned several thousand records in one room and I go 'shoppi... | |
| Is it possible to have vinyl nearly noise free? I'll look to see if I have that record- i have a bunch of ASDs, most go unplayed. Was it only released as a 'quad' record? | |
| Is it possible to have vinyl nearly noise free? @mijostyn-the issue I mentioned about phono stages has less to do with 'self-noise' of the phono stage and more about how it behaves in response to surface noise, tics, etc. Ralph Karsten of @atmasphere has written at length about that here. For ... | |
| How does Amazon sell a 300.00 cartridge for 180.00? There were (and I guess to some extent still are) legal issues around so-called parallel imports or gray goods, but recent cases have changed the landscape in copyright and patent, where a first sale exhausts the right of the manufacturer to contr... | |
| Is it possible to have vinyl nearly noise free? Yes, but there are many qualifiers; some records are inherently noisy due to manufacture; some may have been damaged by kludgey record players in the past. Some noise may be exacerbated by the cartridge and phono stage. I'd be hard pressed to summ... | |
| How does Amazon sell a 300.00 cartridge for 180.00? Amazon will also carry gray market and bootlegs until they get notified otherwise. And, I know from people who are in record business retail that in many cases, their prices are at cost for retailers- on occasion, a friend who has an online shop w... | |
| Super tweeters, are they worthwile? I remember the Janzens- but I don't remember how well they cohered with those acoustic suspension speaker designs. I think part of the reason for the use of the Deccas with the old Quads wasn't just frequency related, it was dispersion- the Quad w... | |
| Great guitar 'breaks" (as opposed to solos). @shadorne - if you like Rockabilly, Chris Spedding has been doing shows with Robert Gordon. Spedding is a pretty amazing talent, appears on lots of records, also of the "I’m not a rock star" [email protected] -yep, Redd is here, as is the great Bill Ki... |