Et tu, chayro?
Same with me, twice! First, Robert Harley convinced me to dig my old Technics SL1700 out of storage. Bent cantilever had to be straightened, okay. Bearing was dry, whatever. No way it is gonna sound that good anyway, right? This is just to humour old Bob. Only "phono stage" I had was the one built into my 30 year old Kenwood integrated amp. Put on a record, blew my mind! Wife came home, not knowing what was playing said Wow that sounds great what is it?!
Second game-changer, Definitive Audio had a LP12 in a Linn wall system on the side wall of their main listening room. Never heard a Linn so we dug around found a dirty old random record they had somewhere, total crap never heard of before. Put it on, walls melted away, huge sound stage, freaking unbelievable!
Sales rep says you like that listen to this. Pulls out a CD of Janis Ian Breaking Silence. One of the all-time best audiophile recordings guaranteed to make any system sound better all by itself. Puts it into this Mark Levinson transport that alone cost more than the whole Linn system. Plays it through monster ML mono-blocks into Wilson Watt-Puppy.
Cranks up Breaking Silence and within ten seconds I am like, "Crap. I have got to get a turntable." This system costs probably 5X the Linn. It is playing an absolutely superb recording that I love. And the little Linn is making it sound like crap.
Total game changer.
Same with me, twice! First, Robert Harley convinced me to dig my old Technics SL1700 out of storage. Bent cantilever had to be straightened, okay. Bearing was dry, whatever. No way it is gonna sound that good anyway, right? This is just to humour old Bob. Only "phono stage" I had was the one built into my 30 year old Kenwood integrated amp. Put on a record, blew my mind! Wife came home, not knowing what was playing said Wow that sounds great what is it?!
Second game-changer, Definitive Audio had a LP12 in a Linn wall system on the side wall of their main listening room. Never heard a Linn so we dug around found a dirty old random record they had somewhere, total crap never heard of before. Put it on, walls melted away, huge sound stage, freaking unbelievable!
Sales rep says you like that listen to this. Pulls out a CD of Janis Ian Breaking Silence. One of the all-time best audiophile recordings guaranteed to make any system sound better all by itself. Puts it into this Mark Levinson transport that alone cost more than the whole Linn system. Plays it through monster ML mono-blocks into Wilson Watt-Puppy.
Cranks up Breaking Silence and within ten seconds I am like, "Crap. I have got to get a turntable." This system costs probably 5X the Linn. It is playing an absolutely superb recording that I love. And the little Linn is making it sound like crap.
Total game changer.