billstevenson
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| Vintage Mcintosh Speakers - your thoughts? Speakers are very personal. You need to use your ears and make up your own mind. Personally never cared for Advents, but I sold a pair to one of my dearest friends who loved them. Another close friend loved his Bozak speakers. Tannoy was anoth... | |
| Why hasnt a turntable manufacturer produced a table with automatic tonearm return/shutoff? Back in the day I had a Dual 1219 that stacked records and multi record sets were generally set up for stacking. Record 1 had side a and d, and record 2 had side c and d, for example. Operas were more complicated. ;-) I used the stacking featu... | |
| Are driver tubes as critical as gain stage tubes? For me all tubes are equally important. I have actually had more headaches with the voltage tubes (drivers) than with amperage tubes (the big gain tubes). | |
| Why hasnt a turntable manufacturer produced a table with automatic tonearm return/shutoff? When I was a young man this was an important issue for me. So much so that it swayed me to buy a Rabco SL-8E arm when that was considered state of the art. It did lift at the end of play I'll give it that much. I also bought a Mitsubishi EC-1, ... | |
| Is bi amping worth it ? This is a very interesting thread and good points have been made. Everyone should try to understand what @russbutton posted. Bi-amping is complicated. I owned a pair of bi-amped Bozak Concert Grands for several years and can attest that everyth... | |
| Best amp for Sonus Faber Depending on what your favorite local dealer carries in no particular order: Conrad Johnson, Audio Research, VAC would all be first on my list for your speakers. Your Luxman would be on my short list for solid state. If you want to try class D y... | |
| My Favorite Tweaks, What is yours? Paying attention to all the details. Simple things like is the turntable level? Are the speakers in phase? Is everything properly grounded? Set up is everything. Don't just consider the little things like the wires, the cartridge, or the isol... | |
| Who is your favorite tube seller? For my Conrad-Johnson electronics I have learned the hard way to buy the tubes from Conrad-Johnson. | |
| Creek Audio service You might try KAB in New Jersey. | |
| Breaking in Blue Jean/Canare 4S11G speaker cable There are undoubtedly several factors involved in what you are hearing. You seem to have identified most already. Your own expectations are probably the biggest. Blue Jeans uses Belden wire, which is definitely good stuff. As you correctly poi... | |
| Will a record weight harm the motor in a direct drive turntable? @pindac Please forgive my delayed reply, I have been in transit from my Florida home to my New Hampshire home. I'm answering from memory, can't duplicate results up here. Anyway, used two weights: VPI and Stillpoints. Two TTs: VPI HW-40 and Tec... | |
| Why Are Used Technics 1200/1210 MK2 Still So Expensive Compared to GR/GR2? @richardbrand reminds me to add a comment about wooden plinths for the Technics SL1200 series turntables. I bought one from KAB years ago. I have seen others that all seem similar. Mine is basically a wooden box that the entire turntable sits i... | |
| Why Are Used Technics 1200/1210 MK2 Still So Expensive Compared to GR/GR2? Lewm, Everything was the same, same cartridge, same electronics, only difference was changing from TT (a) to TT (b) and we did that as a blind test, meaning a friend was doing the changing and I did not know which one I was listening to. So, yes... | |
| Why Are Used Technics 1200/1210 MK2 Still So Expensive Compared to GR/GR2? In 2016 I was lucky enough to acquire an SL1200GAE, they were hard to get. I set it up next to my fully KAB modded SL1200MkII. It was better, but it was not a night and day difference. Subtle improvements. | |
| Will be selling two 45 rpm Blue Note Jazz collections. Need advice.. You could also check Discogs for listings. What you have is valuable. |