viridian
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| Connoisseur tonearm ? The 707 is a straight arm tube with plastic headshell. | |
| New cartridge, now some adjustment questions. Jed, please read the directions that came with the Shure again. They indicate that you must track at one gram with the brush up, and one and a half grams with the brush down. This is because the action of the brush pushes the arm upward. The actua... | |
| Rega best buy p-5 or p-7? please HELP Art Dudley recently did a comparison test in Stereophile magazine. I have a great deal of respect for him as a writer, but do not always agree with his conclusions. At any rate, he felt that the P5 was the better value. May leave more money for a ... | |
| New cartridge, now some adjustment questions. You say that you are tracking at 1.5 grams, that would indicate that the brush is down. Have you tried putting the brush up and tracking at 1gm? Sometimes, the brushes don't work right. Have you checked the plinth of your turntable to be sure that... | |
| Idler wheel drive vs Belt Idle speculation, or should I say idler speculation, the soul of Audiogon. | |
| Best Song or AlbumTitles? "I'm A Cranky Old Yank, In A Clanky Old Tank, On The Streets Of Yokahama, With My Boogie-Woogie Momma, Doin' Those Beat-O, Beat-O, Flat On My Feet-O, Hirohito Blues" by Hoagy Carmichel. | |
| Cannonball Adderly's Fiddler on the Roof I love the Shelly Manne as well, great suggestion. Ella is not my cup of tea, but I will look for the Peterson record, I love his "We Get Requests" album. Thanks for the guidance. | |
| Software Must Haves Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane, Monk/TraneRashaan Roland Kirk, Kirkathon and The Inflated TearBill Evans, You Must Believe In SpringBud Powell, Time WaitsChet Baker, Plays Lerner and Lowe and ChetAirto, Promises of the SunModern Jazz Quartet, Fo... | |
| Carbon Fiber Brushes I wore one out, but then started parting my hair in the middle and they seem to last much longer. | |
| Who thinks they got the best deal on Audiogon? The best deal is always the component that totally clicks with your system and listening bias and takes you to the next level. | |
| any thoughts on speakers to match a Rotel amp? B&W, yes, Paradigm as well. | |
| Tally up which speaker gets the most votes as best Bose 901. | |
| Help - I've got an Ocean in my Phono Stage From the looks of it, you got pretty much the same answers to your identical post on Vinyl Asylum; they just aren't quite as literate or perceptive as we are. | |
| Help - I've got an Ocean in my Phono Stage I think that the thing has only 52db of gain, the cartridge outputs around .25mv; you aren't even close. Need a new higher gain phono stage, step up transformer, or higher output cartridge. Either that, or you keep listening to one of those "envir... | |
| Idler wheel drive vs Belt Tom, count me in as a beta tester. Can I eat cotton candy while listening, or will that make the sound too "fluffy"?Marty |