dgarretson
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| Seeking arm suggestions for a Grace F9R @rodman99999 The $500 Soundsmith OCL Ruby is a turnkey, new-production assembly comprised of Soundsmith’s aluminum stylus holder extrusion, Soundsmith’s suspension, Soundsmith’s ruby cantilever, and Soundsmith’s OCL diamond. It is not a retip or a... | |
| Please Rate These Cartridges in Best Overall Order of Sonic Importance. Recommended Arms? @lewm I never heard of those sure cartridge models... for shure. | |
| Seeking arm suggestions for a Grace F9R I don’t think you can rely on the original Grace spec for compliance of the Soundsmith OCL Ruby suspension. Best to ask Peter Lederman. Its highish 1.8gm tracking force suggests a lower compliance than a stock Ruby.I have an F9 body with the Sound... | |
| Seeking arm suggestions for a Grace F9R Are you at around 1.8gm VTF, as recommended by Soundsmith? | |
| AT ART-9 vs Audio Note IQ3 It’s all about the gain structure of your phono stage. The 1.2mV ART7 is fine at +76db on my Pass XP-25, but could get by with a bit less gain. The ART7 uses non-permeable coil formers, which reduces its output but provides theoretically improved ... | |
| AT ART-9 vs Audio Note IQ3 I can't speak to the AN, but I've been running in a fresh ART 7(my second) on a 4Point after a long run with a $3K Accuphase AC-5 on the Kuzma. The match with the ART 7 is superior in every way. | |
| Digitizing LPs For a shorter path, take a look at the Sweetvinyl Sugarcube. It does almost all of the work automatically and sounds pretty good. | |
| Digitizing LPs I have no bone to pick either. I will only submit that if you’re 70/30 leaning toward digital, then recording those LPs will eventually get you to 100% digital, and at a potentially higher level of satisfaction and lower cost than replicating an L... | |
| Digitizing LPs Admittedly it's a long-term project at any pace. But worth doing just once and well-- and buying the best equipment that one can afford for it. The results are good enough that I will not revisit the vinyl, and sell LPs off along the way. Any bids... | |
| Digitizing LPs @jbny Thanks, I’ll try it.@tkr I "hear" your pain. An LP takes up around 3.5GB at DSD128. I store them on a QNAP TVS-882 RAID on up to eight disk drives and SSDs. The QNAP contains an i5 quad core CPU that hosts Roon and Roon DSP engine. | |
| Digitizing LPs @tkrI purchased Tascam as the best all-in-one DSD recorder I could find short of Playback Designs. All that's needed in addition to the unit is CF or SD card media and a CF or SD reader to transfer files to the PC for processing by Tascam's free ... | |
| Digitizing LPs The Tascam DA-3000 does a nice job recording LPs to DSD and hi-res PCM. To improve the Tascam, check the archives here and on Audio Asylum for my suggested internal modifications. Adding to that, I recently had good results treating pins on its in... | |
| Top 5 Tonearms Newer or Vintage Under 2500 That Will Beat anything above/below 2.5k? @terry9 Thanks. I machined similar weights and agree with you that they work well. I felt it was more appropriate to comment on the Trans-Fi as supplied, as the OP is a newbie. It's a great tonearm and relatively simple to modify. | |
| Jazz Noir suggestions Jazz at the Movies Band-- White Heat: Film Noir - LP or CDThe Hot Spot (soundtrack)-- 2x 45RPM LP (=ambient John Lee Hooker) | |
| Top 5 Tonearms Newer or Vintage Under 2500 That Will Beat anything above/below 2.5k? As noted by Nandric, he and I are "long" on SME 3012R, with five or so examples between us. There are a fair number still available, mostly from Japanese sellers. This is a really versatile arm-- working well with both high and low-compliance ca... |