jasonbourne52
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| Cartridge recommendations for Thorens BTD 12s arm??? Some people like the Koetsu more than the Denon 103. But Koetsu MC’s are about 7X more expensive than the Denon 103. That’s a big difference in price! A more affordable mc cartridge is the Hana SL at $750. I would choose that over a $2-3K Koetsu. ... | |
| My MC 2205 Amplifier is smoking??? Always use a variac to slowly ramp up the AC voltage for components that have been idle for long periods! | |
| cheapest cable upgrade ever Sort of like using copper wrist bracelets to treat arthritis. | |
| Introducing Myself That's a real nice TT collection! Welcome to this always entertaining - and contentious! - forum! | |
| To Blind Test, or Not To Blind Test, That Is The Question @thyname : if you lived nearby we could do a comparison of your expensive power cord vs. my cheap cord using my modded Quad 405/Quad 57's. Not high quality enough for you, eh? | |
| To Blind Test, or Not To Blind Test, That Is The Question Wire has become a religion. You’ve got to believe it to hear it! All of this is, like religion, faith-based. The wire believers read the spiels from ad copy men masquerading as physicists! Expectation bias leads to the ever more costly cable as so... | |
| Conversion question: Marantz SLT 12 into SLT 12-U ! I just now saw your post. I have a Marantz SLT12U. I bought mine before I was aware of the difference. Just lucky I guess! I don't think the conversion would be easy to do! I'd leave it be and just use the cartridge (Shure) already mounted. | |
| Conversion of voltage in Air Tight amp Can’t be done! Get a step-down transformer (120 > 100 VAC) from Amazon/eBay. Don’t run the amp on 120 VAC! | |
| Which Power Cable do you think? If the TT is on a stable, heavy base the platter is not going to bounce. A heavy brass pod with tonearm will work fine! Regarding cables, the sky's the limit for costs! IMO a two-figure cable will sound the same as a four-figure cable. Let the roc... | |
| Objectivist, Subjectivist, Inbetweenist "East is East and West is West. And never the twain shall meet" - Rudyar Kipling | |
| WTH TAS?! Got to give Harry Pearson credit for overtaking Holt's Stereophile and becoming the doyen of the High End with TAS! | |
| WTH TAS?! Hey, I still have a nicely restored pair of AR4x's! They still sound nice for a budget speaker! No challenge to my Quad 57's! | |
| Speakers known for great midrange. Any of the old LS3/5A's (Rogers, Chartwell, Goodman's, KEF...) will more than hold their own against any of today's four-figure stand mounts! The BBC sure knew how to design small box speakers! I have the Rogers (serial # around 27,000). | |
| Rotel A14 Electronic components (amps, preamps, DACs...) all have varying amounts of distortion at different frequencies. The better components have less. The Nova 150 may have more high frequency distortion that to your hearing makes it more "bright" than ... | |
| Groove tube kt66 I have a NIB quartet of the Russian-made Gold Lion KT66’s that I bought some years back. I plan to put them in the Heath W5 Mono’s I bought at around the same time. They are good sounding tubes! The W5’s originally had USA Tungsol 5881’s. I might ... |