johnss
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| New to vinyl again Yes, Czbbcl is correct, purchase a good record cleaning system. That is super important for listening to LPs. Nitty Gritty and VPI both make them, and while you are at it, purchase some new sleeves to so you are not sliding that freshly cleaned re... | |
| Rewiring a Well Tempered tonearm- thoughts? Yes, Schipo is correct. Cardas makes kits to re-do the arm. Quite an improvment over the stock wire. There are also a few companies that will do it for you if you do not wnat to tackle it yourself. J | |
| Help in reducing distortion from old mono records. Chris, its possible the copy you bought was played by its previous owner who had a table and cart that did not track well, adn likely damaged the grooves. If that is the case, then your best bet is to look for another copy. One thing you can try i... | |
| Brag About Your Vinyl Collection 95% of the EMI UK classical catalog, 80% of the Decca catalog, and a ton of Columbia, DG and Philips; mostly classical LPs, then there are the 50s jazzz lps................ | |
| Digital to Analog-Converter needed? HiFi, I would suggest you look at a decent DVD Player with digital out (Pioneer, Denon, etc) and buy a rosetta 200 for the conversion to analog. | |
| How many gangs check out wwww dot fmtunerinfo dot com. They will have more info there on your Marantz than most other sites. | |
| Differences in electric outlets Buy a good quality commercial out let and take the extra $$$ and have an electrician added a dedicated 12 gauge wire / 20 amp circuit from your electrical panel to your listening room. Make sure it goes to the panel and not tapped into another cir... | |
| Amp Basics: Tube Preamp w/Solid State Power Amp. I agree with Jmcgrogan2. One thing to add is if your preamp does not have a cathode follower, then you'll want to keep your cabling between the pre and power pretty short. Depending on the cable, longer runs could roll off the high frequencies. If... | |
| How Much Is TOO MUCH for a Analog front End? If you are going to consider going to that level, a much more audible improvement can be had by a different route for your LP playback. Get someone to upgrade the resisitors your phono section; This is completely independent of the brand, how much... | |
| "Original Jazz Classics" Yep Vinylrowe hit it right on the head. Pick up as many of those OJC pressings as you can. They are a steal for both the performances offered and in many cases the sound quality. The originals are not as quiet and would cost much much more than th... | |
| yet another KAB mod question Also don't forget the cardas tone arm re-wire, that is def. worthwhile. the Cardas head shell leads are available from the needledoctor or musicdirect.com. | |
| parasound hca 2000 vs hca 2000 mk2 The Mark 2 is completely dual mono with two tranformers, much higher current delivery and able to drive low impedence loads. | |
| Baby Koetsus? ie, Poor Mans Koetsu I agree with Oregonpapa. have compared the 199.99 low output version of the Benz micro to some kilo buck MC carts. They sound different, but one can not conclude they blow away the $199 Benz. | |
| Need help buying a used turntable for $500 Yep, I agree with Waltersalas. Get the technics 1210 available from several sources; or better yet, get the Technics from www.KABUSA.com and on their option list, order the cardas arm wire and the arm dampening trough; and you may not have to upgr... | |
| Audiophile Quality 2 Channel DVD Audio? DVD-A can sound much better than SACD or CD, problem is the source material is mastered poorly, and no attention to detail is really made on the commercial side. The exception being the sound mirror Living Stereo releases on SACD which sound reall... |