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| Outer ring - who uses and what are your findings I have used my copper TTW outer ring with a variety of decks. I have used it with and without center weights. Here are my thoughts. The outer ring does help with records that have minor warps. I can see the difference with less tonearm movement an... | |
| Finally took the Bryston 4B Cubed plunge TAWW, it is very refreshing for an owner of a piece of high-end kit to be objective about it. Thank you. I wish there were more people on enthusiast boards like you-people who are able to avoid ownership-bias. I own gear that most would consider a... | |
| Thorens Turntables What is your budget? You may want to give Greg Metz of STS/Classic Thorens a call. He is located just outside Nashville. I know that he has several tables, not all of them TD124's, ready for sale. Greg is like a Swiss watch maker. He cleans up vin... | |
| Cartridges: Complete Scam? There is no doubt in my mind that a modest cartridge properly set up in a top quality deck will sound significantly better than the reverse. I just had my TD124 totally tricked out by an expert-STS in Nashville. This project included a motor rebui... | |
| Upgrade to AMR DP-777 SE or look elsewhere I have an AMR DP777 and if it were me, I would have it repaired and upgraded. I agree that for you, the answer should depend on whether you liked the DP777 before it failed. My understanding is that the SE primarily adds more bass slam/authority. ... | |
| Replacing generic RECEPTACLES I recently bought cryo-ed 10-2 romex from VH audio and had an electrician install two Oyaide R1 duplexes with two runs of 10-2 romex to my breaker panel, so each duplex has it's own 10-2 dedicated run. One run is the cryo-ed wire from VH Audio and... | |
| Interconnects and non-believers Just a generalization; if your amp is solid state and constructed of select parts, the power cord will make a larger relative difference than the other cables. If your amp is tubed and made from top tier parts, the IC between preamp and amp will m... | |
| Interconnects and non-believers Hey Prof, d'you remember me? Prolly not, but that is OK. I am the guy with the DeVore O/93's. Along with a lot of others, I admire your ability to write about and describe the unique attributes of various loudspeakers. You are superior in doing th... | |
| New Vinyl I don't admire him at all. I think it's awful that on such of a one-of-a-kind occasion as this, that one would miss it. Let bygones be bygones and celebrate the achievement. Just my .02 worth... That is the easy go-to response. You are not a... | |
| New Vinyl Most of Dire Straits best records have been reissued from Germany's Pallas pressing plant and they sound great. I confess to not having been a huge Dire Straits fan until "rediscovering" just how good they were recently with these new re-issues. "... | |
| Cardas Cables I have ARC tube gear, a Ref 6 and Ref 150SE and Clear Beyond XLR is magical between the two and Clear Rev 2 is likewise the best of several speaker cables I auditioned to power my DeVore O/93's. It is without a doubt system dependent. It is one of... | |
| I hate biasing! Do you have the yellow plastic tool that ARC supplies with their amps? It makes finding the slot in the trim pot so much easier than using a screw driver. Also some of ARC's amps make it easier to actually see the slot of the trim pot whereas with... | |
| Art Dudley Calls B.S. but without naming names - PLEASE DO! Of course you do. Disagreement on this Board (and most others) is about as endemic as smoking among Israeli twenty-somethings. What Art would and would not buy or put in his own living room is not the point. The point is that a segment of what we ... | |
| Art Dudley Calls B.S. but without naming names - PLEASE DO! It all boils down to the delta in the competing concepts of "form follows function" vs. "style and flair in a luxury good has a price of its own". Take a stroll down 5th Ave in NYC or Rodea Dr. in Beverly Hills and you see the purest examples of t... | |
| ARC Ref 6 and Ref 10 opinions , talk, stories, buying options and opinions 05-16-2018 10:48amHi,If you could get a demo of the Ref 6 to make sure it’s for you, then that’s a different story. Friends have owned the Ref 6, in some cases twice, and moved on. I had a Ref 6 and I personally was not happy with it. I now own ... |