tyray
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| What's your go-to cheapie cartridge? I took a chance and bought a used Shure V15VxMR MM cartridge for 220 CAN which ended up being $150 bucks US hoping nothing was wrong with it as they normally go for $500 and installed a JICO SAS VN5xMR stylus and to my surprise it worked just fine... | |
| What unknown musical artist would you like to share with your fellow audiophiles? MANDRE: On Motown RecordsThese next artist are all Brazilian:Marcos VallePixinguinhaCartolaDorival Caymmi | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? Speaking of rock and roll, Mother’s Finest with that Southern rock aint bad either. And the band was really from the south, not like CCR who played a heap of blues but was from Frisco. Although I have to admit, more classic rock, funk, soul, blues... | |
| Cost of Shipping Records Well I took a que from you good brothers and sisters here and did some internet record shopping for exactly what I want rather than just crate digging and actually found and online record shop that does not charge for shipping after a $20 or more ... | |
| Cost of Shipping Records Man! Now, I’m glad the only thing I can afford in vinyl is used albums by crate digging... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? Good folks, I had never even heard of this band before. They wereout of Detroit and became a ’group’ in 1964. The group was is called MC5. Check out their tune ’Motor cities burning’ and others on you tube. They were punk long before the Ramones a... | |
| Phono cable advice. Yeah, the Lounge Audio LCR MK(???) was my first choice and I think that is where I first read the term ’giant killer’ for phono preamps. It is an outstanding preamp for the money and class A too. And as I did more research and found out about the ... | |
| Phono cable advice. @asahitoro, and you other good folk here, I ended up buying 2 pair of Amadi Maddi Signature .75 meter interconnects made by Philip Amadi with KLE Innovations Copper Harmony RCA plugs. And they sound amazing right out of the box even without full b... | |
| Best MM? +1 on the Shure V15 type Vmr cartridge. I took a chance and paid $152.00 for the cartridge put a jico sas shure stylus in the cartridge, upgraded the head shell and tonearm wires and haven’t looked back...My phono preamp, parks audio budgie tube p... | |
| Phono cable advice. @three_easy_payments, you’ve answered your own question and it’s that dreaded ’disease’ we audiophiles get called ’upgrade-itis’ and it looks as if you’re starting to get symptoms of it. But don’t worry cause it’s actually kinda fun.☺@soudermn, I ... | |
| Phono cable advice. Hi,Does anyone here have any experience with clear day cable interconnects used as phono interconnects? They are purposely made unshielded and I have an opportunity to purchase a pair with ETI Silver Bullet rca jacks. I have never seen a bad revie... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? eyecallshotgun, good call. I forgot about Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. A very underrated band and guitar player too.Can we add the James Brown band since he influenced so many rockers from Mick Jagger of the Stones to John Bonham of L... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? Sly and The Family Stone... | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? Technics SL-D2 direct drive semi automatic. My daily ’driver’.Pioneer PL-600 direct drive full automatic (The silver/metal deck)Pioneer PL-630 direct drive full automatic | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio @teajay,Thanks for taking the time to post and share with us here on Gon. I have been doing research on dacs and what may be my first purchase of a dac is the ’LitedacAH for under $200’. All because of the post made here by @ahendler.Some of us he... |