billstevenson
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| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? There is no one answer to this riddle. VAS offers some great cartridges too. My collection includes a matching pair of VAS Nova MC, one mono, one stereo, both aluminum cantilever with a 0.07 mil elliptical stylus. The VAS mono is my preferred m... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? Lalitk, Using your ears makes sense, but it only will take us so far. This thread makes clear what a mine field the whole mono record business can be. For example, as lewm points out, when and how a record was made matters. Records cut late 19... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? Honestly I do not know. I have all of the above: true mono cartridges (Myajima and AT), bridged stereo to mono (Ortofon 2M Mono SE - personal fav), and a stereo switch (KAB). all work. My take is that Ortofon, ever practical, has probably determ... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? I asked essentially this same question a few years ago to the experts at Ortofon and the answer is there is no difference electrically and, therefore, no difference sonically. | |
| Rudy Van Gelder on Vinyl This is a very enlightening discussion. Thank you all. With respect to the Capitol recordings, they were also quite good. Sinatra was famous for always being prepared when he entered the studio. He did not like to have to record a song more th... | |
| Rudy Van Gelder on Vinyl May I add to this discussion in the spirit of expanding it, not wanting to in any way detract from the excellent points raised so far. I share the enthusiasm for RVG, but want point out that he was not so good at recording piano and particularly ... | |
| Rudy Van Gelder on Vinyl As a guy who still has the first vinyl record he ever bought in 1963, along with about 12,000 more, I should be insulted. I also have significantly more dollars invested in analog playback equipment than in excellent digital equipment. It is nev... | |
| SUT Interconnects This discussion prompted me to experiment a bit. I use Audiosensibiliy Statement Silver interconnects throughout all of my equipment. I tried 0.5 meter. 0.7 meter, and 1.0 meter phono cables on both inlet and outlet of both Bob's Devices Sky 10 ... | |
| Integrated that blew you away My main system: C-J: ART 88, ART Phono, 27A My summer home system: Marantz PM10 and matching SA10 I did compare them together before sending the Marantz stuff to it's new home. The Marantz PM10 has a Class D amp, separate power supplies for eac... | |
| B&W 802D1 - How can I tame the brightness? "I can tell by your post you've never had a pair of these speakers." LOL! As a matter of fact I do own a pair of these speakers. I know them intimately and know their strengths and weaknesses. With these, or for that matter any speakers, "fool... | |
| Where is the bass on my B&W 802d speakers? This in combination with your other post clearly points to a room problem. B&W 802 D diamonds measure flat down to about 33 Hz in an anechoic chamber. Your room/speaker interaction is the root cause of your problems. See my post to your fir... | |
| B&W 802D1 - How can I tame the brightness? Interesting that all of the advice so far has been to ditch your 802D diamonds. While that is always an option, I would call it a last resort approach. B&W sells more speakers, high end speakers, than any other company in the world. And the... | |
| Has anyone switched from Class AB/A to Class D? Was it better? Was it worse? In my primary residence the electronics is supplied by Conrad Johnson and the amp is the ART 27A, Class A. In our summer home the electronics is Marantz, and the amp is an integrated PM10, Class D. Before sending them to their final destination,... | |
| Hi end Audio Club for Southeast Florida Please add me to the list. I am in Wellington. Bill Stevenson | |
| Vinyl Care richardbrand, Ben Franklin advises us to say all of the positive things we can, but none of the negative. You seem determined to obfuscate the value of this discussion with unproveable conjecture. The following is my response.... Please stop. |