madavid0
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| Cartridge recommendations But hold on here. Isn't the traditional wisdom that lower-mass generators, the better? MCs are best because they have the lowest mass signal generators. Why is it there isn't a single MM in the high end market?With my first turntable it had a dece... | |
| Cartridge recommendations What's with the MM recommendations? Isn't it widely understood that good MCs always beat MMs? | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Haha. No one is going to hear a difference in those smartphone mic videos with the room echo going on. | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? No one wants to answer the question. Most serious responses boil down to "expensive tonearms are a scam". For example @lohanimal post above in which he likens it to the difference between a Casio and Patek; the Patek keeps time no better than a Ca... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD A major problem that's holding back my digital system is that my vinyl significantly out-performs it. I'm trying to figure this out. It may be that it'll never be possible due to the dynamic superiority of vinyl? I went ahead and bought the Music ... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... If you buy grey market are you stuck with going to a 3rd party like Soundsmith to get a re-tip? | |
| D-Sonic and Magnepan? Class D sucks so I would avoid those. | |
| best interconnect at decent price I had a "below average" experience with the Anti-Cables 6.2 interconnects. While not exactly "budget" they are way more affordable than high end cables it supposedly competes with.After extensive burn-in I could tell NO difference between the 6.2 ... | |
| Has anyone tried these stunning new CPT power cord? I can't detect any sound from it, at least not past the underlying hum / vibration present in my rack. | |
| Has anyone tried these stunning new CPT power cord? So I got my Chinese balanced isolation transformer from AliExpress yesterday and has been burning in since. It's showing an open ground on the outlets so that's probably proof that it's running balanced.Anyway, first listening experience is that t... | |
| Do people really just not get it that their items are not selling... LOOK.No one has money. Everyone on here is a have-not. Let's just be real. If the item isn't less than $2k it's hard to sell.Even if you're in the market for a $5-10k item, those are almost all dealers trying to sell new OR they're trying to make ... | |
| Using Maple Butcher Block Under a Turntable I use this block ontop of Mapleshade Isoblocks:https://www.butcherblock.com/product/18-x-12-x-3-cutting-board/I have two turntables, a Mofi StudioDeck that features sprung-loaded feet and a Triangle Art Concerto with upgraded platter; the platter ... | |
| Reference Recordings Some of their vinyl releases have issues. | |
| Has anyone tried these stunning new CPT power cord? Haha. This thread made me think a balanced isolation transformer is the ticket to audio nirvana. So I bought one:https://www.aliexpress.com/item/-/32932624890.htmlLess than $200 after shipping. Lol I bet these are all Chinese units with a CPT logo. | |
| Basis Turntables: Worth it or Ripoff? BTW, hasn't Basis massively increased their prices? |