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| Personal turntable/cartridge evolution Let's see ...1973 Garrard changer w/Pickering crtridge1978 Pioneer PL-117D w/Shure M91ED1996 Resurrected table, got Grado Black2002 Rega P2 w/Denon DL1602004 Oracle Delphi w/Koetsu RosewoodFun seeing names/decks from my college past floated about ... | |
| Do You Remember Your First CD Player? Ditto TVAD ... an old JVC ... and I still have it in a 'background' system, and it is still working. | |
| Arm mass/cartridge compliance...help Go to appendix 2 of this FAQ http://www.vandenhul.com/artpap/phono_faq.htm#a2I don't know the effective mass of the Ittok, but a search ought to turn it up. | |
| Rocky return to vinyl If I might part you with even a little more of your $ ;-) I would suggest that if you can get into the $750-1000 range you could get a setup that you will likely be happy with for a long long time - if that's not an oxymoron around here ;-). That ... | |
| What would be the weakest link in this setup It always is a safe bet that the weakest link is the room, followed by the recording. Spending $40 on The Master Handbook of Acoustics, and another $500 on DIY treatments, will trounce any equipment or cable upgrade. If you just have to spend more... | |
| Front projection or not? Just because you *can* control the light, doesn't mean you will always *want* to. My wife would never consign herself to always watching casual TV in a darkened room, and I wouldn't either. Yes, with the brighter digital projectors, you can have a... | |
| Room treatments without $$$ Spend your first $40 on F. Alton Everest's "Master Handbook of Acoustics". Lots of easy and cheap ways to deal with high frequency problems, but low frequencies and room modes are best (if not only) handled right now, while you have choices about ... | |
| Movin' on up Can't rally make such a broad generalization - depends on the implementation. But, in general, as with most things, I'd think an external single purpose device would be more flexible and more single-mindedly suited to task, but probably more expen... | |
| best amp for von schweikert vr4 jr vr4 jr's I just heard these with both a Butler TDB-2250 and a BelCanto eVo6 Gen II bridged into dual-differential mode. Both were spectacular - the Butler giving even more body and texture to the VSA's very nice midrange, and the BC exhibiting a little mor... | |
| Raleigh NC Area, Anyone interested in Audio Club? We have a couple groups of enthusiasts here - one oriented more toward 2-ch and the other more HT - that meet with some frequency. Let me know if you are interested. | |
| What's the most anolog sounding CDP Since you are obviously partial to Cary, you could stay in the family with a 308T. I've heard it in an all-Cary system (308T>SLP2002>V12r) and it sounds fantastic.Or, the alternative I'm pursuing, a good transport with a non-OS DAC. | |
| Do tube CD players and tube pre-amps play nice? Physically/electrically there shouldn't be any problem. Sonically it's your call. I know people with all tubes, with tubes in just one component (be it the CDP/T, DAC, Pre, or Amp), and all combinations in between. | |
| CES 2004 Best of Show I may be mixing and matching with THE Show, but the consensus in my group of the rooms we heard was- Walker Audio with the Proscenium feeding Viva monoblocks driving Zingali speakers. One of the gang descibed it as sounding like 'sex' - he doesn't... | |
| tube phono stage under $1k? I would suggest that you may get better sound overall by looking for an integrated amp with a phono stage, thereby not having to run your analog thru the receiver at all. You would run the receiver's L/R pre-outs into the IA as an auxiliary input ... | |
| Clamp for Rega Planar 2? Thanks guys! I think I'll head over to ED for a Heavyweight. |