jasonbourne52
Responses from jasonbourne52
| Nagaoka MP 300 Cartridge Buy a bottle of Stylast lubricant. Apply it to the stylus before playing a side. Your stylus will outlast the suspension! I have done this and it works! | |
| A cartridge with more bite, please and thank you Increase the SRA (Stylus Rake Angle) by raising the back of the tonearm. | |
| If there was only ONE album/cd/release you can listen to, over and over............. Dark Side of the Moon! Pink Floyd's masterpiece. | |
| Mid-fi tube vs high-end SS The Benchmark AHB2 is the SS amp to get! $3K. Most transparent and lowest distortion SS amp today! | |
| Sumiko Flux Buster Demagnetizer Ditto for your SUT! I wouldn't let a demagnitizer near my mc cartridges and SUT's! | |
| Vintage worth the time to explore? Forget amps. You want full and detailed sound at low volume? Get a used pair of the later generation Quad ESL's like the 988's or 989's. Nothing better for low-level listening! | |
| Advice for RCA Interconnect Upgrade? I have used plenty of wire since 1976, starting with Disc Washer Gold Ens. Anybody remember those? How about Mitch Cotter's Verion Triaxials? None have made the least difference, regardless of cost! Anybody tells me that wire B blows away wire A i... | |
| Advice for RCA Interconnect Upgrade? I have said this ad nauseum: wire is not a tone control. It would be a wonderful world if changing a wire made an improvement in sound quality. Alas ... | |
| Has anyone been able to define well or measure differences between vinyl and digital? The major problem today is the reduction of dynamic range (the Loudness Wars) of new music and re-issues. That is why I prefer early issues of CD's over remasters. LP's with a dynamic range of 10+ db will certainly sound better than CD's 0 to 3db! | |
| Has anyone been able to define well or measure differences between vinyl and digital? The fact that the buyers of these MOFI 'sourced-from-digital' LP's couldn't tell the difference proves that digital is more transparent to the source - and is superior! | |
| The "What's is worth to you" thread I recall an earlier cover of both John and Yoko standing au natural with pubic regions in view. Maybe worth more? | |
| OpenAI GPT3 chatbot's opinion on vinyl playback "...and they have less surface noise than vinyl records." - who writes this cr*p? | |
| The "What's is worth to you" thread I never liked that cover. | |
| Streamers and their Fuses @carlsbad : if your house burns down you will have some explaining to do! As the esteemed Jackie Gleason said: "And away we go!" | |
| Songs of debauchery and excess Jefferson.Airplane - White Rabbit. The Moody Blues - Timothy Leary. The Grateful Dead - Casey Jones. |