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| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms @mijostyn - I won’t argue about sound engineering principles and do not pretend to be an engineer. I do remember people using arms like the Keith Monks with the old Decca cartridges back in the day. I guess I come back to the OP’s question, which ... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms Ha. We had to listen to a few things that Max wanted to hear, including Patto on Vertigo. No problem. Queen sounded pretty spectacular- they made some killer sounding records at their peak and I hadn't listened to them in years. I did play the Pat... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms @viridian - turns out, we have a mutual friend in our record collecting buddy, Max. I have no absolute answer to this-- I’ve been using a couple of Koetsu stone bodies in the Kuzma Airline and whether it is the overall mass (horizontal) or the de... | |
| Has anyone heard from bdp24 lately? Glad to hear you are ok, @bdp24. A year or more ago, I was reported here as dead, and a few folks posted. While it was interesting to see those first couple comments, it felt weird, and I had to post to say, "Nope, all good here." Like I said, gla... | |
| Acoustical treatment to minimize exterior noises? You may find more results in researching soundproofing rather than acoustic treatment. I have soundproofed for a couple situations. One was a large walk in closet where I kept the compressor for my tone arm (plus a whole lotta records that were mo... | |
| sub rec. for McIntosh 275 Hey, @aball. My experience, FWIW, is to match your woofer to your subs. The amps driving a lot of modern subs are "plate amps" so the fact that you are using a McI model X almost doesn’t matter if the feed is high level or line level. The trick fo... | |
| Amp — Leave on or turn off Tube stuff gets shut down when I'm not near the room or ready to go back; some solid state stuff needs to be plugged in for a long while before it comes on song. I used to have a Lamm L2- two chassis line stage with a solid state audio path and ... | |
| Upgrade My Turntable - How Much Do I Need to Spend? I've been playing in this sandbox since the early '70s. I bought an SP-10 new back in 1973. After restoration (by the late Bill Thalmann, RIP), it runs in my vintage system, replinthed with a Kuzma 9 " arm. I have a bigger system that started i... | |
| Best Neil Young Vinyl Recordings Clean OGs are tough today. Harvest, cut by Lee Hulko, is outstanding, even more than a decade ago, finding a quiet copy wasn't easy. There is a more recent Bellman recut that is popular and was cheap when issued. My preference for sound is the Hul... | |
| Buying from Japan...Accuphase or Luxman what are the costs ? import duties etc Didn't Accuphase change (reduce) their pricing structure in the US (perhaps due to the exchange rate?) I thought the mark up was going to be significantly (25%) lower in the States. With that in mind, support would be important. (I think it is the... | |
| Brag About Your Vinyl Collection I've been buying LPs (stereo mostly) since the mid-'60s. I'm not a completist or collector but among 17,000 records at one point, I had (and still have): about 45-50 original Vertigo Swirls, mostly UK, a few other countries; The Island pink la... | |
| Piano black polish and refinish BASF makes the finishes on the Hamburg Steinways. Obviously a vast company and I doubt they sell a "refinishing stick" or the like. There must be a good piano restorer near you-- worth doing a little digging. You in Dallas? Judging by your "handle... | |
| Cream — Stormy Monday @soix- I respect your view and you may be right. Thanks for the courteous and thoughtful response. (Keb Mo' was fabulous in concert; Ditto, Etta James, who I considered a blues singer, and a long list of others). My personal issue with the blues... | |
| Cream — Stormy Monday To me, the blues has to be bitter and heartfelt. The closest Mr. Clapton came was a live bootleg when he was playing with Mayall. It certainly isn’t audiophile. I think it was the Flamingo Club. This is not about sonics: Apologies if alre... | |
| Why do we demand so much from our systems? I suspect there as many different answers to this question as there are different people with different tastes, experiences and expectations. When I started in this sandbox, call it 1970, the "high end" was still emerging--and I jumped on the tube... |