johnnyb53
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| recommendation for cartridge for the rega P1 I'm not sure if a Shure M97xE would work on a P1, but for your situation that would be my recommendation: When the Shure's damper brush is deployed, it helps the tonearm negotiate warps and skip less.Maybe you'd be better off selling your P1 and g... | |
| Help me down grade If you want to save lots of shelf space, get an iPod, a Wadia iTransport, and a Peachtree integrated amp with built-in DAC. Their DACS sound great. Load the iPod with ALC files and you'll have a rig that sounds better than all but the most expensi... | |
| What medium priced amplifier is best with vinyl? 02-20-09: MapmanI like the Onkyo suggestion.Another good choice in that range might be a second hand Musical Fidelity Integrated.Or how about a tube hybrid like the Unison Unico, or something tubed and digital-ready with a nice built in DAC even l... | |
| Attention Onkyo A-9555 Owners/Users 02-20-09: RlwainwrightGlad to hear of your discovery, what a great hobby, huh?-RW-The irony of this discovery is that the Cambridge 640 kicked off massive upgrade fever last year:- In April I started by adding the 640P to my stack of pawnshop elec... | |
| What medium priced amplifier is best with vinyl? 02-11-09: DlclevoJohnnyb53 and Bobgates - I'm wondering if you saw much improvement with the Cambridge 640P as compared to the phono stage of the Onkyo A-9555. I have the A-9555 and have found the phone stage to be pretty good so I am wonder how m... | |
| New Pre or Integrated for 2nd system, thoughts? Get the Onkyo. My experience matches Sfar. I've had mine for 6 mos. I like it better than most British integrateds up to around $1500, and certainly like it better than anything available under $1K. It has a very low noise floor and lots of transp... | |
| No Audiophiles in Hollywood If these have been mentioned before forgive me, but this thread is over 4 yrs old and I didn't read through all the posts. Anyway, two films that easily come to mind are Indecent Proposal, where the Redford character had an audiophile turntable an... | |
| Speaker Choice under $750 for blues... Look into some PSB image towers, depending on what you can afford, either the T45 or T55. Check out this and this.I'm not endorsing this vendor, but just pointing it out, because the T55s are $1K/pair at Audio Advisor, and this would put the T55s ... | |
| Cart Reccomendation for P5 re: roomate idiocy Well said, Mofimadness. I didn't have to go through any adjustment period going from the DL160 to the AT150MLX: tonal balance and basic characteristics were similar. The AT150MLX simply gave me much more of everything I already liked, plus a major... | |
| Cart Reccomendation for P5 re: roomate idiocy Get an Audio Technica AT-150MLX. It will take you to the next step. It was designed and marketed to be a $500 cartridge, and it typically sells for $400, but you can get it for $259 at lpgear.com or for $250 with free shipping at J&R Music Wor... | |
| Anybody heard of Girard turntables? A receiver with a turntable built into it was known as a "compact system." Audio legend Henry Kloss's second company, KLH, pretty much came up with the concept and some of them were pretty good. The two best were a Marantz with a Dual turntable an... | |
| Are 90's mid-fi units as good as hi-fi from 80's FivefastsAre 90's mid-fi units as good as hi-fi from 80'sAre we making any advances or are we just going around in circles (that get more expensive over time)? I have VSP TransMOS power amps and one Amber Series 70 power amp from the '80s. The Tra... | |
| Big AV Receivers : Digital or Analogue ? If you're using the receiver's built-in amplifiers, then I would get an analog power cord, particularly one oriented toward power amplifiers. If you're using it as a preamp/DAC only, then I *might& use a digital-optimized cord.Actually, if I w... | |
| mid fi choices NAD vs Adcom vs Rotel ... $400 Right now Audio Advisor has the Cambridge 640A v2 on sale/closeout for $399.99, and you can get the factory-refreshed Onkyo A-9555 from Accessories4less with a 1-year warranty, also for $399.99. Deals on the Onkyo are drying up fast and accessorie... | |
| Any other vinyl as quiet as ECM? Yesterday I was playing a few ECMs and Concords back-to-back. My preliminary conclusion: Yes, the ECMs are amazingly quiet, but the Concords are amazingly dynamic. They sound the most like direct-to-disc recordings even though they were tape-based... |