viridian
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| Pro-Ject Debut III Tube Box II or BELLARI - VP129 The cartridge is pretty bad; don't waste your money on the Tube Box or Bellari. The NAD, Creek, Parasound, all around, or under, $100.00 will do the trick quite nicely. | |
| Are the Grammy's becoming irrelevant? So some of you did not like the Grammys because the music was crap and some of you did not like the Grammys because the music was crap and the winners of best album had a left wing political bent. At least everyone agrees on something. | |
| Anti-Skating or just let it skate? Your opinion. The forces involved would lead to the conclusion that anti-skating is not necessary at all.........as long as you have a tangentially tracking tonearm. | |
| Pro-Ject Debut III Tube Box II or BELLARI - VP129 Personally, unless you intend to upgrade the cartridge very quickly, and assuming that you have a budget of only $250.00, I would buy the Audio Technica AT440MLa cartridge and a less expensive phono pre. A used Musical Fidelity X-LP or even a Cree... | |
| Are the Grammy's becoming irrelevant? Independent of politics, are the Dixie Chicks any worse, as an act, than Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Ludacris, Mary J. Blige and the rest of the slick, packaged performers that strut their marginal talents on the Grammy's? One can only explain the... | |
| How far would you drive to audition a component? I do not buy new components so I do not drive to dealers for auditions. However, I have driven to Seattle WA, and Salem, OR from Portland, OR to buy used gear. A local friend drove to Utah from Portland to buy some Martin Logan speakers. That one ... | |
| Pro-Ject Debut III Tube Box II or BELLARI - VP129 Are you using the stock cartridge or something else? Very nice system by the way. | |
| Benz Micro Ace upgrade to H2, any opinions? This will be a large improvement in terms of dimensionality, warmth and extension. If you have the preamp stage to use it, the L2 is a much better sounding cartridge than the H2 in terms of detail and focus. Much better. | |
| Best inexpensive interconnect/speaker cables? Alpha-Core | |
| missed buying opportunities I went to Record Surplus in LA one day. I was not employed at the time. They had a copy of the CBS half-speed mastered Abraxas, as well as the Mobile Fidelity Allman Brothers Live album. I bought the Santana and passed on the Allmans. You can stil... | |
| What to expect from MONO You really should not be hearing any sound stage at all. The sound should be perceived as coming from a vertical line between the speakers. No broadening of the image at all. Depth may be present, but no width. Unfortunately, most stereo audio rig... | |
| Carpener goes to Rounder and Vega to Blue Note Rich, ahhh now I've got it; sorry for being thick.Marty | |
| Carpener goes to Rounder and Vega to Blue Note No Nate, I think that you will find it fascinating and the musicians are great. In some sense, bad VM is better than good most anyone else. YMMV. BTW, your system is looking awsome! I have a serious case of envy. How is that analog front end sound... | |
| Carpener goes to Rounder and Vega to Blue Note Rich, I would repectfully disagree with some of your examples. For instance the Procol Harum Live In Concert is basically just Procol Harum songs with instrumental accompaniment. They did not write a symphony, ditto for the Elton John, no change i... | |
| Will superior earphones matter with my Nano My wife owns one and swears by her AKG K71 cans. I prefer my Sennheiser PX-100s. Either set blows away the stock buds and really, really surprised me as to how large the improvement was. |