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| Questions to ask as I shop for a tonearm? Another Japanese arm to consider is the Fidelity Research FR 64 FX. On the heavy side, not really suitable for high-compliance carts, but a really great arm at the price. | |
| The one component that you wish you had not bought A Kondo Audio Note S7 stepup. Rare, good and now virtually useless. Bought a new RIAA with sufficient gain, so now the Kondo is simply sitting on a shelf, unused. | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD I think of the whole digital/analog thing as something of a race. In my own setup, digital will sometimes race ahead, but will fall back again after an improvement on the analog side. And so on.....IMO, digital can sound extremely good nowadays. A... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? Is shirtless typing a ripoff? I tried it this afternoon, and I didn´t notice any improvement in performance at all! No matter which shirt I wasn`t wearing, even expensive ones, nothing really happened. Just goes to prove, not wearing cheap shirts ... | |
| Sweetvinyl Sugarcube - SC1 and SC2 If all you want to do is to rip LPs and declick the digital files, what is wrong with Audacity? | |
| Counterfeit DL103? How do you modify something like the DL 103, a LOMC giving around .25 mV output, into something which gives an output of +4 mV? | |
| Counterfeit DL103? No, both Denon DL110 and 160 have outputs around 1.5 mV, not more than 4 mV. | |
| Difference in sound using different carts when digitizing vinyl record? Ok, as promised, here are the files:https://www.dropbox.com/s/opg3udisptsys73/Dire%20Straits%20Koetsu.flac?dl=0and:https://www.dropbox.com/s/cj8asa4xolyvxd8/Dire%20Straits%20Decca.flac?dl=0The first file is Dire Straits´ Walk of Life played throug... | |
| Difference in sound using different carts when digitizing vinyl record? I have done this, and there are audible differences. I will try to upload some files to my dropbox-account later today. They will be 16/44.1 recordings, as there is no point in uploading 24/96-files if people aren´t able to play them. | |
| Difference in sound using different carts when digitizing vinyl record? The answer to the OP´s question is yes, of course you will hear a difference if the two cartridges sound different. IMO you will hear a difference even when recorded at 16/44.1, and from my own experience you certainly hear it when recorded at 24/96. | |
| How do you store and catalog your vinyl? I store my LPs by genre (pop/rock, classical, C/W, jazz, compilations ) and then alphabetically. I also have a category "unclassified", where everything is placed before a listen-through and definitive classification. | |
| Highest detail cartridges A SoundSmith-modified Denon DL 103 R with saphire cantilever and fineline diamond tip.Great detail, great bass and more than passable soundstage. It will set you back around $ 650. | |
| Kondo Audio Note Io ii+ Kondo AN S 7 II - Keep it or sell it? Thank you. I will mount the cartridge and try it out again before I decide, but you certainly have given me food for thought. | |
| Kondo Audio Note Io ii+ Kondo AN S 7 II - Keep it or sell it? Well, they are pretty rare, and prices are all over the place. That is part of the problem, there simply isn`t much information on the internet. As you say, probably quite desirable as a pair. The question is if they will appreciate in price and a... | |
| Kondo Audio Note Io ii+ Kondo AN S 7 II - Keep it or sell it? No. The Io ii is an old Japanese-made Kondo cartridge from the early eighties, and the S 7 is the matching SUT. I dont know how collectible these are, which is why I started this thread. |