Brass door knobs as footers

Johnny - glad to hear PartsExpress cones worked for you. Here's to hi-value, budget options. Using a 2.25" Cuisnart chopping block that I bought at Lowes, myself. I really believe Mapleshade is onto something re vibration draining.

Vinyl playback is so good now, its amazing - even on non-audiophile, reissued LPs! - and I have not yet added fluid to the damper trough. An experiment to come, I suppose.

I have to admit I was always a little skeptical about the whole vinyl better than CD thing. This has certainly opened my eyes to vinyl's potential. Though I'm still not sure it's an absolute advantage. In my case it certainly reflects at least in part the ~$2000 invested in TT, Cart, phono-pre amp & inconnects vs the ~$500 invested in CDP + ICs.

The downside to this $ disparity is that it led me to spend more $ buying a DAC and tube buffer to try and get CD playback to be as rewarding as vinyl. The good news is, CDs are sounding way better now - though still not equal to vinyl. But now I also have the itch to upgrade the ICs in the CDP chain to the same level as the TT IC. (I hope this stops at some point!)

Apologies to this thread's originator for "hijacking" but hopefully some of this will be helpful to them as well.

Ghosthouse, what cartridge and headshell are you using?

Apologies to this thread's originator for "hijacking" but hopefully some of this will be helpful to them as well.

Well, since the Dayton brass cones from PartsExpress are cheaper than doorknobs, I think you did everyone a favor.

Hello JB53 -
Guess I haven't priced doorknobs lately!

When I ordered the TT, I got Kevin's KAB Modified Stanton "Groovemaster" MM cartridge. It's a DJ cart but tricked out with nuded canitlever and stereohedron tip (no longer in production and Psychicanimal scarfed up the last few that Kevin had. It has an integrated mount so it doesn't use a head shell.

I've followed many of your posts and if I recall you are running a Denon (103?) with Sumiko headshell that you seem very happy with. When I first started listening to the Stanton - it was kind of darker sounding (I was coming from a Sumiko BluePoint Special (high output MC) and an old Thorens belt drive table. Maybe I've gotten acclimated or something. Or maybe the Stanton is finally broken in - but it sounds great now. I don't feel like I'm missing any high frequency stuff. Oh, I did upgrade from an NAD PP-1 phono pre to a used Lehmann Black Cube along the way since buying the Technics table. It is hard to isolate how these individual changes affected the overall sound. I haven't exactly been following scientific method while upgrading my system.

09-05-07: Ghosthouse
Hello JB53 -
...I've followed many of your posts and if I recall you are running a Denon (103?) with Sumiko headshell that you seem very happy with

You're close. I'm using a Denon, but it's the high output DL160 mounted on the Sumiko HS, tracking at 1.6g.

And I guess I have you to thank on the Dayton speaker cones tip. That $20 certainly improved the sound quality and musical enjoyment a couple of notches.