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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Indeed, Rushton, that's a lesson I've learned the hard way. Based on a few great recordings I stumbled across, I made the erroneous assumption that all DG vinyl must be pretty good. I bought a lot of them back when my rig wasn't nearly as revealin... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing Schubert's Die Winterreise, with Jörg Demus on piano, Deutsche Grammophon 2707 028Recorded in a studio and close miked. Fischer-Dieskau's baritone is crystal clear as is the piano that accompanies him. It's as if ... | |
| The AR turntable If its so good, why do you want to upgradeStringreen, you know better than to ask that question - this is Audiogon, after all. :-)Bbopman, if you decide to sell and replace the AR, you'll get many different recommendations. I've had suspended tabl... | |
| Phono pre for 35mv cart that runs 6dj8 tubes?????? A quick Yahoo search turned up these possibilities:Audio Research PH3Sonic Frontiers Phono 1SEBottlehead SeductionI'm sure there must be more.David | |
| What is the tracking force for a AT 22 cartridge 0.8-1.6 gm according to The Cartridge Database.A great resource.David | |
| How many hours weekly do you listen to your system Pawlowski6132,In our case my wife is a pastor and we live next door to the church. She has office hours when she needs to be there, but the rest of the time she prefers to work at home as there are less interruptions. The cordless phone signal fro... | |
| Stereophile Article - Holt telling it like it is. "Audio actually used to have a goal: perfect reproduction of the sound of real music performed in a real space.""The playback still doesn't sound 'just like the real thing.' People, let's start getting back to basics. Let's put the 're' back into ... | |
| How many hours weekly do you listen to your system We don't own a TV, so some sort of audio is going on in our house pretty much 100% of the time we're home. The big rig is on every evening and all day most weekends, table radio in the kitchen for morning and afternoon news, bedroom system all nig... | |
| Grand Prix Monaco review in new Stereophile- OUCH Johnnyb53,See my links in the posts just before yours...all is revealed by Denon...lots of differences, actually...David | |
| NAD 116 - MM phono stage not working Your preamp has separate MM and MC inputs, and you had your MM cartridge connected to the MC inputs. Thus, no sound when switched to MM and overloaded, distorted sound when switched to MC.Was I right?:-)David | |
| Why spend megabucks on a tuner? You don't have to live in a big city. Eugene, OR has 4 terrific FM stations, all public and locally owned. KLCC is owned by Lane Community College, is the NPR station, plays an eclectic mix every weekday with specialty shows all nights and weekend... | |
| Grand Prix Monaco review in new Stereophile- OUCH Actually, here's the real answer:http://denon.jp/company/release/dp1300_500.htmlRun through Babelfish, it outlines a better DD motor, better tonearm with upgraded wiring, and bigger, heavier base.Two interesting things: the release date for both t... | |
| Grand Prix Monaco review in new Stereophile- OUCH Here's the Japanese Web page for the DP-1300MKII:http://denon.jp/company/release/dp1300mk2.htmlI ran it through Babelfish and it still doesn't make it clear what the differences are from the DP-500M. In fact, the picture is clearly identical, as a... | |
| Should I keep my Well tempered tonearm? 240z4u,If your phono preamp is set at 50dB, you may be overloading your system. The Shure has a 4mv output, so the KAB gain calculator says 38dB gain is optimal. Depending on the gain in the rest of your system, 50dB could be too high. If your pho... | |
| Should I keep my Well tempered tonearm? 240x4u,I always had the screws exactly perpendicular to the arm tube. That was the way it was pictured in the instructions I had. I considered turning it a bit to alter the anti-skating, but decided that the extra half twist in the lines made more... |