viridian
Responses from viridian
| Crazy TT Tweak? I tried it on my direct drive turntable and it didn't help a bit. | |
| Tube Integrated with deep bass Well, my military intelligence tells me that the giant shrimp of integrated tube amps with good bass is the VTL IT85. It's the colossal olive of tube integrateds and you could even pick it seeing blind. | |
| Amps on the cheap....real cheap Bridgeing amps actually will reduce their stablility into low impedances, so I think that one Adcom is better than two for your Sound Labs. Why not just throw a couple of hundred at upgrading your Adcom? You will have a nicer sounding amp that is ... | |
| Tok20000 is going pro Wow, there's a record, answering a question two years and eight months later; I hope that you respond to your paying customers just a wee bit more quickly. | |
| What Arm choices for the Garrard 301 For new, Thomas Schick and Ortofon 309, for vintage Ortofon or SME 3012. It's not that the Garrard "likes" long arms, it's that the idler drive mechanism puts a lot of energy into the plinth. The further the arm pillar is from the source of that e... | |
| Interchangeabe tonearms with RB300 The Continuum Copperhead is a drop in, as is the Graham Robin. The former would probably give you a good improvement in sound quality at the cost of a bit of added complexity. | |
| Review: Denon DL 103R Cartridge Increase mass by adding blue tak or mortite to the headshell. | |
| Wise audio aphorisms Ralph, I already said that, try again. | |
| Thin record and thin sound? Did you adjust VTA for the thinner record? If not the VTA would be going positive so the sound would be somewhat thinner. Not to say that the recording is not thinner as well. | |
| Did MAS make amps? You kind of answered your own question. You might try asking Mel Schilling, the former owner of MAS. His current company is called Xhifi. | |
| Blue Note reissues as an investment? Do copies of original paintings go up in price? LOL. | |
| Rega P-2 turntable: Best cartridge match for $ 200 Jim nice table, the only other table that I would consider, new, in the price range, is the venerable Technics SL1200. You do not mention what your phono stage is, but the Denon DL103 is a very low output moving coil. It is not a particularly good... | |
| Vintage Turntables compared to modern? After having owned nice, mid range tables like the LP-12, SOTA and VPI, I am now totally vintage and will not go back. Two belt drives, an idler and a direct-drive. Then again, unless you have deep pockets for the flagship models, most of the main... | |
| Ringo Starr or Charlie Watts??? Which do you prefer, mayo or salsa? | |
| Table/Cartridge price ratio You probably have not heard the Grado MCs because no one has; they don't make them. All Grado cartridges are moving iron. Interestingly, Joe Grado had the patent on MCs in the US, but never enforced it. As for the rest of it. It is hogwash, the ca... |