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| Unipivot tone arms One of my favorite turntables was an LP-12 I got used in 1975. This was before they added electronics to it…just a Scottish AR or TD150. My roommate was in the UK on a fellowship so I asked him to bring me a Keith Monks arm for it. I mounted it... | |
| Advice on turntables If you move on from a WTT/TA, you may regret it. I did when mine started showing its age after over 30 happy years, and my first attempt to “improve” on it was not successful. I now have a Technics SL100C I am happy with, but it leaves my “esote... | |
| Is there an 'Audiophile' Reel-to-Reel Machine for Under $1,000? I have used Pioneer, Sony, and Revox machines, and all were excellent, (and the Revoxes were not better than the others). These were all 10.5” reel machines. The Technics direct drive models have an excellent reputation too. I doubt any of these ... | |
| Somebody Please Make This Already... No one comes closer to offering this functionality than Parasound, to my knowledge. But a few observations…you start by specifying all analog, like a purist passive preamp, then throw in active circuitry, which means op amps, then a full electron... | |
| $3500 floor standing speakers used. What would be your choice ? No one has mentioned Revel F228 Be so I will. They list at $10K but have been on factory authorized sale and used….could hit your price point. Very capable, accurate and musical across genres. | |
| Bose 901 Review Well Done. They came out just as my HiFi journey began, in 1968. I was initiated in the AR/KLH/Dynaco sector of the audiosphere, and went to the Grand Central listening room to hear the 32Hz organ pipe (overtones) of Also Sprach Zarathustra played in a room... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. I no longer have the listening acuity that I once had, so my days of having firm opinions about one thing sounding “better” than another are behind me…like a wine snob with COVID whose sense of smell has gone away. But as a person retired from a ... | |
| What's the weakest link in my stereo set up? I live in a townhome, so limited on space. I would do the stylus, but also explore improving your speakers. Focal 906 have a nice tweeter, but my experience with them leaves me wanting more defined midrange and bass extension. There are better options with similar cabinet size. | |
| Perhaps the most annoying myth in audio of 2025? Talking about Loudness! I went to a concert at Boston Symphony Hall last weekend, sitting in row Z, middle of the hall. Crescendos hit 90dB in the first and fourth movements of Mahler Symphony #4. At home, I play it quite a bit softer. But to feel the envelopment one h... | |
| McIntosh C28 preamp and MC 2505 power amp landed in my lap My first job in HiFi (1973) was a shop that used a C28 and the big brother to your MC2505, the MC2105 as their reference system. With a Dual 1229 and AT15S, and Pioneer RtR as sources. Our top speaker was the ESS AMT 1 Tower, wiring was 14ga. st... | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? In 1969 I went to a show at The Pavillion in Flushing Meadows, NYC (site of the Worlds Fair), to hear the Charley Musselwhite Blues Band and Savoy Brown. An opening act went on and blew the roof off the place…which was an open-air venue…a new ban... | |
| McIntosh DS200 Mahler, “Mac customers tend not to want all in one solutions as much as customers of a certain audio company whose name starts with “B”.” How do you square that thought with the enduring popularity of McIntosh integrated amps, preamps with DACs ... | |
| Dumb question......why do you need a preamp? My understanding is that source components with variable outputs typically have a higher impedance and lower maximum voltage than would be the case with a good preamp or line stage, so the latter “drive” the amp input stage with more authority, no... | |
| Removing stylus from Shure V15 Type III Enough, but no more! | |
| 3k budget for Turntable and Phono Noob- do I need external power supplies? I tried a balanced connection with a Thorens TD1600, an AT-OC9XML, and Pro-Ject PhonoBox DS3. I didn’t find it to be superior in any way. When I switched to a Technics SL100C with unbalanced connections, I got lower noise with all my cartridges.... |