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| Ortofon's new A95 - titanium SLM cartridge Smoffat, rebuilding the A90 would almost certainly require a cantilever replacement as well as a new stylus, which would cost $1,200 or more. And in the end, you wouldn't have a cartridge that sounds like an Ortofon A90.I have used Peter for retip... | |
| Single driver speakers without the pitfalls? I apologize for coming into this discussion late. IMO there are a very few good single-driver speakers on the market, although not many that are well known. Limitations? Yes, but different and no more than with most "conventional" speaker designs.... | |
| Walking Into A Brick & Mortar High End Audio Store Avgoround, I don't understand your comment. There are many B&M stores in existence, unfortunately some better and some worse.If you have enough audio friends that have enough gear, then maybe you don't need a brick and mortar store. But if not... | |
| Walking Into A Brick & Mortar High End Audio Store Goldeneraguy, sorry my bad. Br3098 is my customer and friend and had logged in from the mac my my showroom. He didn't log off when he left and I answered without checking first. My apologies to all for the confusion. | |
| Walking Into A Brick & Mortar High End Audio Store Tbg,I don't know where you are in Texas, it's a big country. But Galen Carol at Galen Carol Audio in San Antonio is a great guy and is an excellent example of an exceptional brick & mortar audio dealer. | |
| Whats your take on the Ortofon SPUs? The Ortofon SPU cartridges are very unique, in an old school way, in both design and sound. These cartridges are best used with tonearms of specific geometry and mass (compliance). If you are using an SPU-friendly tonearm you don't need a setup pr... | |
| Walking Into A Brick & Mortar High End Audio Store Taters, there are absolutely ways to lease audio gear. I have leased gear to corporations and movie production companies, and very occasionally to individuals. The problems are:1- most dealers just don't know how to work with a leasing company, an... | |
| Walking Into A Brick & Mortar High End Audio Store Roxy54 wrote "The problem is that people like yourself are wasting the valuable time of the commissioned sales associate who is there trying to make a living. While he is doing a fruitless demo, or just shooting the breeze with you, he is missing ... | |
| Listening Fatigue & Speakers in Small Room I would suggest that you look at the Larsen speakers from Sweden. They feature an ortho-aoustic design that allows the speakers to work WITH virtually any room, not against it. The smallest Larsen speaker, the Model 4, will provide excellent sound... | |
| Ortofon Quintet Cartridges The Quintet series replaces the Vivo and Rondo lines of MC cartridges. IMO they are quite good performers for the price, which is very close to the 2M MM series.Recently I had an opportunity to directly compare the 2M Black, Quintet Black and Cade... | |
| Two turntable setup ideas to go with an SPU cart It's your money, but I don't see the need to spend anywhere near $10-$11K for a platform for the Ortofon SPU cartridges.The Garrard 401 is a great turntable for this cartridge, as is the 301 and TD-124. But you could also use a TD-121 if you were ... | |
| Stylus profiles for mono records Unless you have any micro-groove records, you should be able to use any modern mono cartridge with a spherical, elliptical or fine line stylus. A true mono cartridge like the Denon DL-102 will provide you with 1-channel "true mono" output if you a... | |
| Ortofon SPU, cased or nude? As an Ortofon dealer, we have enjoyed the opportunity extensively tested most of the SPU cartridges. Lencotweaker nailed it - the SPU A/G/N cartridges all sound different. There is actually a lot of technology in the headshells for the G series, w... | |
| Can DAC with volume control act as Pre-amp? That is how we setup the Antelope Zodiac Gold that we used in the Earo room at the last RMAF show.The Zodiac Gold DAC was used as the preamp for the USB input from the mac laptop and also for the analog RCA input from the phono stage. The preamp a... | |
| Nottingham Analogue Interspace azimuth adjust??? Gmardinly,Respectfully, I must disagree with you. Properly setup and mated to the right cartridge, the Space Arm is a wonderful sounding arm - one of the best 9" arms ever designed, IMO.As I mentioned previously, this arm was designed for a high c... |