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| Life After Technics SL1200 Mk5 The best upgrade you can do for your old Technics after full rewire is a top quality perfecty matched MM cartridge and a phono stage. Your AT is OK, did you ever change tonearm internal wires? This is a weak point of all old Technics, you have t... | |
| Life After Technics SL1200 Mk5 Hi luisma1,I appreciate your thoughts!I was a fanboy for Technics back in the day, but since the SL1200 I have changed out speakers, amps, preamps, transports, and DACs.Just seems to be a fair ask at this point in my system evolution to consider w... | |
| Never Owned a Tube Amp and Want Advice Do you have another source besides CD? It's taking longer than a week for the USPS to ship my "butt uglies" 200 miles. Should arrive on Monday...really looking forward to breaking the covid19 monotony :-) !In the meantime, I set up my turntable... | |
| Good CDs to Test Your System There aren't any. LP. Records. Now you're talking. Okay, so name a couple of good ones that would get at soundstage and depth of field. Dsper | |
| Never Owned a Tube Amp and Want Advice I remembered that I still had the EH's I took out of my CJ preamp when I put in Phillips....Anyway I substituted those for the EH's in the tube amp and it helped.Can hardly wait for the butt uglies to arrive!Dsper | |
| Never Owned a Tube Amp and Want Advice I have a pair of 1960's Amperex NOS "Butt Uglies" coming from Brent Jesse. Figured to try them even though they are like double the price of the Sovtecs and EHs.If they improve things, then maybe I might try some" really good", i.e., expensive ones. | |
| Good CDs to Test Your System maxnewid post Now that is the kind of advice I was hoping to receive!Thx! | |
| How to physically move large heavy 100lb amplifiers easily (up and downstairs) Yes. This is ridiculous. Injuries are difficult to get over once you're over 40. After 50 they can threaten to become permanently debilitating. Well said! | |
| Good CDs to Test Your System Thanks for the hints! | |
| Thinking about the good old days... @dsper Ever shop at Dodd’s Record Shop, or....Believe in Music (records and paraphernalia) back in the day in GR?I checked out Believe n Music but never hit Dodds. Probably missed a good one.I attended Aquinas College and spent a lot of time in ... | |
| Never Owned a Tube Amp and Want Advice Okay, I am being obstinate and have not tried the turntable yet.I took out the LP66S last evening and reinserted the CODA CS (weighs less than the DNA-500). The sibilance pretty much went away. I reinserted the LP66S today and the sibilance sa... | |
| Thinking about the good old days... You all are bringing back the memories! First Album - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" and second - "The Doors" in like 68 or 69 in Grand Rapids, Michigan..First real speakers were smaller Advents. Traded up to Large Advents in early seventies In Elkhart Indi... | |
| How to physically move large heavy 100lb amplifiers easily (up and downstairs) Okay troops, how do you do it if there is no carton as in an in-home audition of a preowned amp, say a large Krell or Pass 350? | |
| Never Owned a Tube Amp and Want Advice mid40sguy Some very useful information hereYou are correct about that; I have learned a lot. | |
| Never Owned a Tube Amp and Want Advice Hi atmasphere,I need to hook up the turntable and have not done that yet.Hear it in both channels.Right now I am listening to a Leopold Stokowski remastered CD and things sound fine; of course, no vocals.Dsper |