effischer
Responses from effischer
| We get into a GROOVE. Like any product class, some are better than others. I have vinyl from the 50s that holds its own against MFSL and SuperDisk stuff from the 70s & 80s. I've also a picked up some new pressings like Chick Corea's The Vigil and St. Vincent's Stra... | |
| setting azimuth Agree with Doug; do the rough in by eye then listen. I started with a test record to dial it in more precisely then did some critical listening of stuff I know well for the final touch. I've also heard the Fozgometer works well, but I can't see ho... | |
| Turntable Upgrade: What Sonic areas will improve? Spend more, relatively speaking, on the cartridge than the table. Rega, VPI, Sota, Pro-Ject, they're all good. Pick one that has the features you like. On cartridges, I'm a big fan of Dynavector and Ortofon. I find they offer a superior value and ... | |
| LS3/5A vs Sonus Faber EA/Minima The Rogers are nice, but grossly inefficient near-field speakers since they were designed to be a small studio monitor, not a loudspeaker. The MC275 is a nice match to them, but you may find you don't get enough SPL on bold passages. The Sonus Fab... | |
| Repair worth it? If all the JVC needs is a cleaning and demagnetization, you should be able to find cleaning supplies and a demagnetizer on-line, either NOS here or Ebay or new from some place like Needle Doctor. The Nak is worth fixing, so long as it isn't too mu... | |
| Why did you choose a horn based loudspeaker? Had a couple pair of Klipsch Heresy's back in the day; one home audio pair and one pair of stage monitors. They were hyper-efficient and had nice dynamic range for the relatively low-powered amps I had available (Hafler DH200, DH220 and a Dunlap-C... | |
| Spin Clean seems to add noise to records? For decades I've only used LAST Power Cleaner to remove the mold release compound from new records, LAST cleaner on an old-school Discwasher brush, LAST preservative and LAST stylus preservative on every side. Works like a charm. Recently invested... | |
| old verses new ??? I'm still using my recently refurbished 1984 Sota Sapphire, and I'd stack my rig up against anything under $10K made today. | |
| Back to basics Tough to say for sure without knowing the rest of your gear, but take a look at Pro-Ject and Rega. Good tables, solid value and decent sound for under $500 including arm and MM cartridge. They both also offer higher end units for not much more $$$... | |
| Airplane trip with turntable... You don't say, but I'll presume you are traveling inside the US. First, the box MUST fit under the seat or in the overhead. Depending on which airport you are departing from, you won't even be allowed to get into the security line if it won't fit ... | |
| Quick hdmi question. Engineering arrows always point downstream, so transport -> DAC. | |
| Legendary Johnny Winter Dies at 70 Very sorry to hear that. He was just here @ Beachland Ballroom. RIP. | |
| Mcintosh MVP 861 I never auditioned an MVP851, but the 861 audition I did 3 years ago led me to my 881BR. Definitely superior audio playback to anything else I'd listened to (including Denon, Cary and Marantz). Natural, warm and inviting. SACD playback is also sup... | |
| What was your first 'hi-end' system? By 1982 I'd worked my way into Klipsch Heresy pro monitors, Halfler DH200 power, RGR Model 4-1 pre-amp, Marcoff PPA-2 pre-pre amp, Rega Planar 2 turntable, Dynavector Karat 23RS, TEAC A3440 reel-to-reel, Tandberg TCD440A cassette, DBX 224 Type 2 n... | |
| DAC doesn't recognize hi-res files Also appreciate the info regarding the add-ins and your response to 77 on JRiver, Doggie. The note about resetting reminds me that I'm dealing with OS X, not something else. Don't always remember that OS X does what it's supposed to, not what it w... |