wrm0325
Responses from wrm0325
| Rpm's and The Strobe Hello jsmanIf your count of only 30 rpm is accurate, then you're talking about a 10% speed variation. That would be audible.I too have the KAB, along with several other stobes and other devices to check speed ( Feickert ), and the KAB is just as ... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Hello Stringreen,the same EXACT sequence occurred for me back in 2000 when I had the JMW-10 with a Grado Statement.Your observations mirrored mine exactly.And a difference, as you noted, of only a single drop of oil in the well made all the differ... | |
| Is New Vinyl Exempt from Loudness Wars? Audiotomb,The simple answer is money. People will buy them because they think that new vinyl carefully remastered must sound better than the original stuff.Not so.Now, in most of the cases, the remastered stuff has been carefully remastered by ver... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Hello all,I'm keeping the FR66s. Many, many thanks to those who have offered advice in this endeavor. Much appreciated.Just a little more advice please. I have three headshells in house. I've got the Arche w/ the aggelos leads, an LP Gear Zupreme ... | |
| Is New Vinyl Exempt from Loudness Wars? It's hit or miss with the new stuff, for reasons stated above. You have to make sure where it's sourced from.However, if you go with the established re-issue labels, such as MoFi, DCC, Classic Records and many others, it's clearly stated the recor... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Hello Testpilot,I am keeping the FR66s, and I do like my SF. But I'm always willing to try other things. I've got a Fully balanced op-amp kit from Twisted Pear in house that I'll be building w/ battery PS when I find the time to do that.Got any re... | |
| Tonearm recommendation " flieb "" Who unleashed the Kraken ? "Couldn't have said it any better.well done.I won't respond to his gibberish in the hopes he just goes away.There are some other things I wish to address, but it will have to wait until later on, as the NFC ... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Halco and Nandric,Thank you both so much for your advice. It is greatly appreciated and listened to. Your ( and others ) experience far exceeds my own.Halcro,I can assure you that your original assessment of my intent is completely correct. A litt... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Another example of Raul's inexhaustible supply of EGO.You seem to have ALL the answers.The rest of us should just go home.For the record, I find my FR66s to be the easiest tonearm to set up that I have ever used. AAMOF, I don't see how it could be... | |
| Best budget DAC Second the IFI recommendation. Only one of their products uses the Sabre chip though, the Micro idac, and it's no longer in production. It's been replaced by the Micro Idac2, which, like the rest of the line, uses a TI( Burr Brown chipset ). I hav... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Hello John Tracy,Feel free to add your two cents any time you want. Any advice is always welcome.First, you didn't state which SF phono pre your friend brought over, or how old it was or how tired the tubes may be ( or type of tubes for that matt... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Wow Raul,You are quite the PIECE OF WORK. And that's not a compliment.First: "Are your ears trained in a specific way to discriminate subtle distortions ". No. Of course not. Are YOURS ? And if so, who trained you and what are their qualification... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Hello all,WOW !!!First, thank you to all who have offered advice, opinions, or fact to this mix. I truly appreciate it.First, since Raul questioned what my phonostage is, let me state my entire system so that everyone will realize that it is not l... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Hello all,First, sorry it took so long to get back. Still, don't have any time to stay awhile now, so I'll be back later. Thanks to all who responded so far. I will fill in some missing info on my system later, and add further thoughts and questio... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Sorry, should have stated that my two cartridges are both low compliance( Koetsu Rosewood and modded Denon DL103r, so a heavier mass tonearm is needed. Must be that second martini !! |