Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The Hilarity Never Stops

2018-04-19 Thread drmatt
ralphpnj wrote: > loudness wars.. A terrible thing to do to any music. Those recordings are for listening to in the car. Hopefully whilst driving as fast as possible. Never, ever, play them on the big system in the house. It'll just hurt. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardwa

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The Hilarity Never Stops

2018-04-19 Thread ralphpnj
drmatt wrote: > Those recordings are for listening to in the car. Hopefully whilst > driving as fast as possible. Never, ever, play them on the big system in > the house. It'll just hurt. > > > -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- And with all the car windows wide open. Better yet whilst

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Dilemma

2018-04-19 Thread Guy48065
Golden Earring wrote: > ... Does no-one offer a professional record cleaning service with a > fixed price per disc anymore? > > Absolutely. It's run out of the back of a buggywhip shop that I frequent. I can send along the address if interested. They don't have a phone (naturally). Squeez

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Dilemma

2018-04-19 Thread Apesbrain
Just chiming in to say that I use a Benz ACE (0.8 mV; first gen model) and like it very much. I've owned many cartridges including an Audio-Technica AT-14Sa. If I needed a new cartridge, I'm sure I could live happily with one of the current A-T line such as the VM-740ML. My memory is of a nice

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Dilemma

2018-04-19 Thread cliveb
Golden Earring wrote: > You reckon that low output MC cartridges *generally* sound better than > high output ones: would you carry that generalisation so far as to > include my original 1980s Koetsu Rosewood Signature, or would you need > to hear it first to make up your mind? Of course, it's -no

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Dilemma

2018-04-19 Thread Mnyb
Yes the best MM transducers ( I owned som Grado’s to ) is probably the best trackers. Like,the Ortofon OM40 . And not to mention the matching with ones tone arm ? Any results is possible ? And fine tuning the impedance of the phono preamp , I’ve had an electrocompagniet mc pre with whole bunch o