fsonicsmith
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| Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period. This just reminds me of the Morrow thread from a little while ago.When the return period is shorter than the break-in period, you know there's a problem.That was my thread. I tried to return a $600 (my cost, not Mike Morrow's fake cost) set of IC'... | |
| "New" Thorens 124 sounds great, but... I have a TD124 modded by Greg Metz and I am getting the best vinyl playback of my life (after owning several other decks including a VPI Prime). My first piece of advice is to call Greg. Second-how familiar are you with TD124’s? Do you have the th... | |
| Audio Additives Stylus Force Gauge inconstantcy inconstantcy Put a pair of Depends on it. Should do the trick. Or let it out with the dogs. | |
| Why the facination with integrated amps? I, the OP, am not only aware of wine analogies, but also bicycle analogies. The bicycle industry came up with the idea of compact frames (sloped top tubes for those that don't know bikes) so that instead of needing to manufacture ten frame sizes i... | |
| Why the facination with integrated amps? Grannyring; short signal paths is the equivalent of “unfiltered’” in wine. It sounds like a great idea in theory but in pactice there is little corrollary between it and long-term satisfaction. ‘Built in synergy”? Other than input/output impedence... | |
| Life of KT150 tubes on ARC Amps Well, we have Iris Dement in common. Tis a shame she has put out so little music. It is no secret that ARC feels that fuses and other methods of circuit protection degrade the sound and also no secret that ARC's practice of having a single resisto... | |
| Life of KT150 tubes on ARC Amps bdp24, what do you do when you are not pimping for Roger? I mean really man, give it a break. It is tiresome. | |
| Plinth to armboard interface Garrard 301 plinth I don't claim to have a lot of experience with different armboards for the Garrard 301 but I did recently buy a mint condition Garrard 301 and I am having a plinth built. Mine will be layers of solid cherry and birch ply. I intend to mount my Reed... | |
| the Garrard 301 plater is concaved. My head is gong to explode. Google Art Dudley and Thorens and Garrard and read his essays. Don't believe Art Dudley, google Ken Shindo and Audio Note and Garrard. The Thorens TD124 and Garrard 301 were designed and built with a level of precision ... | |
| the Garrard 301 plater is concaved. The original platter was not turned on a lathe. It was cast and then spun balanced with drilling of the heavier spots. I wish the chassis was also cast-but it was stamped. There is lots of literature available on this. EW Mortimer's book on the hi... | |
| the Garrard 301 plater is concaved. My early grease bearing 301 has a slightly concave platter too. I believe it is common. I believe it was made this way intentionally. If it bothers you, there are after-market platters on the market that offer slight benefits that may or may not b... | |
| Vinyl heresy-overhang induced distortion is not that important This thread is a collection of anecdotal subjective impressions.Then your reading comprehension is suspect. I explained in my OP how setting up cartridge alignment using the Mint Protractor on a VPI Classic and Prime resulted in lackluster sound. ... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD I keep waiting to this thread to die but it won't. The undeniable truth IMHO is that there is more SQ deviation with vinyl than digital. There is also more variation as to proper set-up and overall deck quality with vinyl and vinyl playback gear t... | |
| Vinyl heresy-overhang induced distortion is not that important Lewm;Great post. I believe that there have been some scholarly articles published in Stereophile on the subject. The popular alignments do a fairly good job of minimizing average distortion over the course of the side depending upon multiple facto... | |
| Vinyl heresy-overhang induced distortion is not that important Yeah, I know it was a bit unkind to bring this up but if Raul is going to post, Yoda-talk aside, make a point in linear fashion and stop throwing darts at four different walls leaving it up to us to draw the lines (lots of metaphors there). Yes, R... |