tooblue
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| Whats playing on your system today? Lou Reed/Rock and Roll Animal, Bruce Springsteen/Greetings From Asbury Park, Junior Kimbrough/Do The Rump! | |
| 1K sleeper MC cart? @invictus005, I have a Shelter 901, Shelter 501, Lyra Helikon, Koetsu Blackline and a Miyabi Standard that says you couldn't be more wrong. | |
| 1K sleeper MC cart? Send it to Soundsmith it will probably come back sounding better. | |
| Most accurate way to adjust for correct vta on vpi classic 1 I use the lines on an index card to level the arm, do not tighten arm down and reach around to the side of the arm and turn the big knurled nut to raise or lower the arm while playing, he careful not to bump arm during this process and set the arm... | |
| How can I connect bananas to Wilson speakers? I use the Cardas spade to banana adapters on my Sophias and on my VTL amps with no complaints. | |
| Phono stage @invictus005, what does music buried underground sound like? I am getting older and kind of wanted to take my system with me. | |
| Recent retip(canti also) Dude where did my soundstage width go If your setup is right, and that will change as the cart breaks in, you might want to get the Cardas album with the burn in groove and let the cart break in without having to endure the pain of listening to it, nothing is more painful as breaking ... | |
| Phono stage +1 Allnic 1201, out of your list the Herron is a great choice and the suggestion of the Chinook is a great option as well. Please take note that all 3 of these are tube based. | |
| EL34 tubes- alternates to matched octet for Primaluna HP dialogue premium @lloydc , FWIW I currently run 10 of Psvane 12A tubes in 6 different pieces with 1,000s of hours with no issues, looking for a piece of wood to knock on, and have had them in the past as well as running the treasure power tubes in my amps, give th... | |
| Retip for zyx @chayro, yea the $ spent versus the quality of sound that you receive from the retip/rebuild is so wide that I would never be able to afford replacing the carts that I have now, just need to be informed if possible on the right way to go, as in my... | |
| Retip for zyx @roscoeiii ,I too am interested in hearing from people that have farmed out the rebuild or retip from an outside source and their impressions of the results. To get started I will list my take on the few I have done. All of these have been Soundsm... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Alice Cooper/Killer, Lyle Lovett/My Baby Don't Tolerate, Bruce Springsteen/Born To Run | |
| EL34 tubes- alternates to matched octet for Primaluna HP dialogue premium @meiatflask, I have a set of 8 Premium Grade Black Bottle Treasure tubes with about 600 hours on them so they are broken in, pulled them from my VTL MB125s that are boxed up to go back to factory for rebuild, if you pay the shipping to you and bac... | |
| EL34 tubes- alternates to matched octet for Primaluna HP dialogue premium For me the 50 year Treasure tubes are a blow me away change. | |
| Power Cord for Pass Int 60-Under 1K used I just can’t seem to get away from the older PS Audio xStream Statement SC PCs, use them when my Pass Labs XA30.5 amp is in play as well as on a pair of VTL MB125s and my newly acquired Quicksilver M120 amps. |