fsonicsmith
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| What is the fascination? Again, I invite those of you who are in the "new makes most sense" camp to candidly chime in as to whether you HAVE or have NOT actually had the opportunity to sit down and listen to a vintage deck along the lines of a TD124 or Garrard 301. Let me... | |
| I need your help. I have an ARC Ref 3, ARC 110, Vandersteen 5As, but no turntable. Just so you know, for what little it is worth, I have decided that compared to my Thorens TD124 fully modded and revived by Greg of ClassicThorens/STS mated with a 12" Reed 3P arm, my VPI Prime just does not cut it. That is despite having a pro co... | |
| What is the fascination? https://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=133143&start=1750Scroll down to post 1770-should you happen to be interested-as to my thoughts on vintage idlers vs. modern belt drive. | |
| What is the fascination? Ignorance is bliss. For (some of ) those of you who replied to the OP, expressing opinions based entirely upon blind belief and your sense of the world is a waste of your time and ours. The OP asked a loaded question with "fascination". Art Dudley... | |
| Best vinyl purchases based on pressing, studio production, sound quality and enjoyment. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings' "The Harrow and the Harvest" and "Soul Journey". These represent one of the few instances in which the artists themselves saw to it that analogue was used at every step and that the mastering and pressing were don... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? @fsonicsmith Have you heard the Audio Note AN-E's, which just happen to be Devore's principal inspiration? To my ears the originals are still the best in that category that matters to you, truth of timbre.No, but I would like to. Next year I hope... | |
| I need your help. I have an ARC Ref 3, ARC 110, Vandersteen 5As, but no turntable. Raul, my friend, you seem to forget that their is distortion introduced by every microphone known to mankind, but every piece of the recording chain, by every piece of the playback chain, by every amplifier in particular) known to mankind, by ever... | |
| I need your help. I have an ARC Ref 3, ARC 110, Vandersteen 5As, but no turntable. If you have no Lp's now, why go into analog, the learning curve is very slow.IMO just stick with digital.The vinyl-deny-ers just don't get it. It's not about convenience or practicality. It's about getting involved. You have to hunt for good recor... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? This is interesting stuff. I will grant that absent near field listening, timbre and reverberant energy are to a degree intertwined. The topic needs to be assessed with the idea of "average listening rooms". Most but not all speaker designers desi... | |
| I need your help. I have an ARC Ref 3, ARC 110, Vandersteen 5As, but no turntable. 1 bpolletti! Just because the venerable 103 was designed back in 1962 doesn't make it a mediocre piece of cr*p! And the venerated Ortofon SPU's are even older! No, the stock 103 sounds fine and will do the job (play records). Upgrades are availa... | |
| I need your help. I have an ARC Ref 3, ARC 110, Vandersteen 5As, but no turntable. Jaym759, you're more than welcome. The Jelco arms look dated but they outperform anything in their price range. It boils down to bearing quality, tolerance, construction and ease of adjusting VTA, SRA, VTF, azimuth, and zenith. Don't get me wrong,... | |
| I need your help. I have an ARC Ref 3, ARC 110, Vandersteen 5As, but no turntable. If it were my money (and has been), I'd go with the Herron Audio VTPH-2A phono stage, VPI Avenger and Lyra Delos. But that's just me. YMMV. YOMV.This is great gear, but it would amount to an expenditure of roughly three times the value of the O... | |
| I need your help. I have an ARC Ref 3, ARC 110, Vandersteen 5As, but no turntable. You are asking a question that has no answer. Your choice of equipment only tells us a little about you. You like ARC, like tubes, and you either seek value in used equipment or haven't updated perfectly good gear in quite some time. I owned that ... | |
| narrow and wide baffles and imaging Imo loudspeaker design is a juggling of compromises, and anyone who says differently is in marketing.I possess a fraction of your technical knowledge, a tiny fraction, but this is my viewpoint too. But just to expand upon that, the people that hav... | |
| narrow and wide baffles and imaging The Devore O/93's do a strange thing in my room-with the right cabling and placement they throw out a wide wall of sound way beyond and above the confines of the boxes-when the recording has it. But what they don't do is provide pin-point placemen... |