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| Grain/Distortion heard on Inner 1/4 of LP Jwglista,I've used the Geodisc and the protractor that comes with the Hi-Fi News test record. Gets you close....I have experienced some of the symptoms that you have described with my Marantz/Clearaudio TT.I will be purchasing a Mint soon :) | |
| Stevie Wonder-As One of the Jazz instructors at a college that I used to attend got into a bit of hot water with some of the other faculty members when he suggested that "Stevie Wonder wrote a melody as good as anything Mozart ever did....." | |
| Quicksilver Mid Monos vs AES Sixpacs Hey Sean,I understand completely. Most of my recent purchases have been here on A'gon, though I chose to purchase my Six Pacs through a dealer as I wanted to have the opportunity to hear them first. Demo pieces would be yet one other option.Good l... | |
| Clearaudio Emotion lacks dynamics I think that you would be safe going as high as 2.2 grams tracking with that cart (I think the range is 2 to 2.5 grams).You may already be doing this, but I found the Zerostat to be of great help when I started working with essentially the same TT... | |
| Quicksilver Mid Monos vs AES Sixpacs I think your best bet would be to read the individual reviews for each piece and then go and try to listen to them. There aren't that many AES dealers (Upscale Audio and Audio Connection)and I've never looked into the Quicksilver gear (though it l... | |
| Stevie Wonder-As Michael Fremer gave a very "lukewarm" review of the Speaker's Corner reissue of "Songs..." over on his Musicangle site. Glad to hear that others are enjoying their copies, though..... | |
| Clearaudio Emotion lacks dynamics Part of the reason that I went with the Marantz over the stock Emotion was the feet. The Marantz feet have alot more mass. I'm using a Target wall shelf, but there are a number of other options for isolation.Glad to hear that cabling solved some o... | |
| Clearaudio Emotion lacks dynamics OOPS! Re-read your post and saw that you are in fact using the Virtuoso cart. Start with a baseline measurement and work from there.Not sure what phono stage you are using or what type of TT/Cart you may have been using before, but if you were use... | |
| Clearaudio Emotion lacks dynamics If the tonearm setup with the Emotion is the same as the Marantz TT-15 (which I think it is), simply keep one hand on the base of the arm while you loosen the set screw a bit. Raise the arm up through the plinth a bit and then re-tighten the screw... | |
| Tecnoarm vs. modded Moth Mk. 3 Thanks. I'll be upgrading from a Basik LV-X shortly. I was initally looking for an Ittok but now I'm leaning towards the Tecnoarm. | |
| Denon DL 103R vs. AT OC9 - MLII Great.... now I've got to go out and pick up some booze ;) | |
| Quicksilver Mid Monos vs AES Sixpacs I have no experience with the Quicksilver's, but it looks like the main difference is that they'll give you 50W in ultralinear, while the AES is designed to run in triode. There are members that could describe the sonic differences between those m... | |
| MiniMax Phono Davt: I'll try to track down that review, since I'd really like to find out more about the MC side of the MiniMax.I'm also stuck with a bit of a compliance issue - my current arms don't really have enough effective mass to work well with the major... | |
| MiniMax Phono Davt,Would you happen to remember which issue MF's review was in? I read the inital "blurb" in a recent Stereophile Recommended Components issue, but can't seem to find it.Maybe my local library would still have that issue on file?Are you currentl... | |
| MiniMax Phono Dynavector 10x5 (HOMC)/Linn Basik LV-XVirtuoso Wood (MM)/Clearaudio SatisfySince this phonostage is MC capable, I'm curious if anyone has used both MM and MC carts with it and can compare. Does it perform best with either type?Thorman: So far, the... |