johnnantais
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| National Valve Museum Fantastic! | |
| Decca cartridge experiences Thanks very much for your report on the new cartridges, Sjy425, it gives me great anticipation of the future possibilities with a better Decca! And I guess Rwd, you have your answer. I love this forum. Over here I can report that the Decca, in my ... | |
| What Cart. for a Infinity Black widow Sadness, I was hoping it would be something special. Thanks, Sean, and by the way, I have an air-bearing also, which of course shines at the imaging thing. And Bro57, there's a very good, very detailed MM on sale here on Audiogon (for somewhere ar... | |
| What steps forward were actually steps backward? An argument for Downgrading!Drubin: Ah-HA! You have noticed the better timing of cheap systems! Actually, I am not the first to make this observation, as several intrepid audio reviewers (who soon thereafter were flipping burgers) comment on this ... | |
| What Cart. for a Infinity Black widow Must...resist..temptation...to reply...cannot...Sean, while you are a fountain of information concerning MMs, and I really appreciate all your knowledge here and would like to hear more, as I am now convinced that MMs are simply better than MCs at... | |
| What steps forward were actually steps backward? Drubin, the siren call of "impressive" is paved with misery, but it is a siren call. However, having one's cake and eating it too is possible, but I believe that amount of information is, for the most part, inversely proportional to how much music... | |
| Isolating bookshelf speakers without stands? A friend of mine owns a pair Totem 1s, similar to yours physically, and he went the big, heavy slab route: he had two slabs of 3" granite cut, roughly to the dimensions of his speaker. given the dimensions, this is not too heavy. Blue-tack between... | |
| What steps forward were actually steps backward? I think that much (not all, but much) high-end equipment gives out an increase in detail and so forth but sacrifices the music. Since all this detail is impressive, many do not even realize that their upgrade has, musically speaking, been a disast... | |
| What Cart. for a Infinity Black widow Steelhead, I believe it was an OM30, a highly-regarded low-mass MM, and good to finally ehar a report on it, as the OM20 from the overlooked Ortofon MM line has received some quite enthusiastic reviews in the last couple of years. To Bro57 and Lis... | |
| ASL Mini Phono Thanks Arafel, I've just bought the Mini Phono and I can't wait to try it! Your experience with it pretty well matches other reports of its exaggerated output, but that's OK since I'll be using it with MMs. | |
| What Cart. for a Infinity Black widow Bro57, the Black Widow tends towards brightness, so I would be leery of putting any type of MC on it, not because of lack of quality (I tried an MC on it and it worked OK, but did not sound terrific), but because it is bright. As well, I think the... | |
| What Cart. for a Infinity Black widow Dopogue, If you have the means - and your JMW tonearm suggests you do - then I urge you to buy a Morch tonearm, which can be ordered with a variety of arm-wands of different masses: a crucial issue (or you can do like me and buy a variety of old a... | |
| What Cart. for a Infinity Black widow Sean,Hmmm, I should have posted a request for info on the Black Widow tonearm a long ago, but I only just discovered this website recently, and I bought the BW a while ago. I love the info on the Stanton, a cartridge I've been meaning to add to my... | |
| What Cart. for a Infinity Black widow I own an Infinity, and it errs towards the bright, so I think it works best with an MM, to wit a Grado. You haven't heard what a Grado can really do until you've tried one in a low-mass tonearm. The dynamics, detail and bass become astounding rela... | |
| ASL Mini Phono Tell you the truth, the ASL T1DT was at the top of my list, but now I've discovered the existence of the Bottlehead kit preamp, and I'm salivating: it's cheap - $150 - and (therefore) fun, and it looks so retro cool. And if you're going to go sing... |