@bondmanp that Sugarcube looks very nice, however, at 3k it's too rich for my blood! I'll probably look for an ADC in the 200-500 dollar range and just make sure to clean my records real good in a Record doctor V. The Record Doctor is simply amazing if you haven't tried it.
Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em?
Hi,
I'd love to hear the impressions of people who've actually spent some time with these speakers to share their sense of their plusses and minuses. Mapman here on Audiogon is a big fan, and has shared lots on them, but I'm wondering who else might be familiar with them.
I'd love to hear the impressions of people who've actually spent some time with these speakers to share their sense of their plusses and minuses. Mapman here on Audiogon is a big fan, and has shared lots on them, but I'm wondering who else might be familiar with them.
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@bstatmeister... Yes the SC-2 is spendy. I got mine via Indiegogo as a beta unit for half the price. I use the KAB-1 record cleaner, similar to the RD V except you connect your own cannisters vacuum. When I bought it, about 14 years ago, there was nothing as cost effective as the Record Doctor V. If I were buying a record cleaner today, I would absolutely get the Record Doctor V. Good luck. |
I use this. Works very well and won't set you back much. https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000BBGCCI/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=all Got a Spin Clean record washing gadget recently but have not tried yet. I clean teh records manually before digitizing to-date. |
Like others over the years, I have slogged through all 57 pages of this post before opening an Audiogon account and making my first post to this forum thread. I recently obtained a pair of 4XO's here in Austin from a young man who had been gifted them, but was wholly unready to understand and appreciate them. I purchased them from him off of Craigslist for $250. They do have some condition issues: chipped veneer, missing basket grilles and a can somehow completely freed from its epoxy among them. I have installed them in my available listening area and have spent a fair amount of time trying to dial them in. (The listening area is extremely problematic.) I am relatively new to the audiophile ranks, and I have been slowly ramping up purchases of used gear and trying things out. (This means making low dollar commitments and making plenty of mistakes, of course.) In so doing, I'm following the pattern I established with amateur astronomy seven or eight years ago: read forums, buy used gear, join Society, etc. One of my recent purchases was a set of Allison Acoustics CD-7's, which will now rotate to surround duties. I have had an initial conversation with John S., and he was as gracious as everyone has previously mentioned. My budget is extremely constrained (mortgage, kid, WAF, etc.), and so I likely will risk the UPS gods at some point soon to send the drivers in for maintenance. I don't believe I can afford any trade ins/upgrades. I am awaiting John's feedback and recommendations for addressing my space. I am currently maintaining a Pioneer Elite VSX-LX301 for home theater duties and room correction (MCACC). It is not rated for the impedance of the Ohms or the Allisons, but it is doing fine so far for the levels at which we listen to TV and movies. I can also use it with my Sony BDP to access multichannel audio recordings stored on my home server. I am doing my two-channel listening on a vintage Pioneer VSX-D1S transitional AVR. That was a recent "upgrade" from another vintage AVR, the Rotel RX-950AX. I have a Denon + Ortophon for my albums. I also run Roon server on my workstation and feed a Raspberry Pi doing dual duty to a HiFiBerry Digi+ and a Scarlett 2 series for streaming. At this point, I mostly wanted to say "hi" and share how interesting I found the 9+ year exchanges of experiences and opinions on this thread. Thanks for letting me share my find with you. https://photos.app.goo.gl/baNbck2X5xRqMmTJ9 -austingonzo |
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