audio-talk

Basking in the sound of silence. Today is the first day in 6 months that all 3 of the kids are back at school. Son no 1 started his first day at the new STEM school, doncaster university technical college today. he had the choice of either engineering or computer science to go along with the core su...

Michael kiwanuka - home again

I have one of his others, but ive never heard this one before. i picked it up on vinyl from Hmv. Made me sit up and listen, it reminds me of isaac hayes hot buttered soul. And a load of others too. Not sure how i missed it
Fabulous

Ill look at that one, i didnt think it was a current production one

Its a moot point with this arm, it doesnt have an sme bayonet fitting anyway. Linear arms are oddities in terms of mass, they have low vertical mass but relatively high lateral mass in relation to the vertical. the lateral travel has to move the wand, counterweight and carriage, the vertical travel ...

Not big on ortofons, the 2 ive liked were the sl15 (spu in a normal body) and the original red mc10 which was based on the sl20 which was in turn based on the sl15. The rest i tried (rondo red, mc 25fl and mc 30) i found flat, dead and not to my taste. Which is why i havent shortlisted any ortofons,...

I already have a dv20x2h on the deck, and have had an at-f7 previously, the fall back plan is to buy a new dv20 if nothing else piques the interest. The f7 is a good cartridge, the at33sa is what im considering from the at range as they dont do a high output mc. As a secondary consideration, Ideally...

Ill have a look at the glider, id kind of discounted it as its over the budget, and i didnt like the silver or the gold i had years ago. Dunno if theres a house sound

i havent got my hana sl any more, great cart, i just liked the dv better. I just dont trust reviews and internet opinions, they are like arseholes, everyones got one, and theres bound to be some shit in there. would much rather consider the opinion of someone on here who ive known a long time, and m...

Oh and it want it to have a line contact stylus of some sort, microline, shibata ect

want abit of advice For the first time ive got a decent budget for something nice Im looking at buying a pair of new cartridges for the jvc and the air bearing lenco. I want to have a pair of new carts for the first time in ages rather than buying second hand. The jvc is used pretty much every day s...

Well to be honest greg its a right pain in the arse to set up. I knew that going in with my experience of the terminator arm. Once its right its very right indeed, but getting it there can be very frustrating. Same as all linear trackers ive used (this, vics arm and a pioneer pl l800) It will always...

I have a dr feickert, i did have a clearaudio which i thought was crap. Couldnt get on with any of the 4 alignments on it which seemed to completely ignore any record which has an inner groove radius that was anywhere near din standard 60.325mm. The closest alignment had an inner null point set at 6...

Been fighting with the linear arm for the past 2 days trying to get the set up back to where it was after swapping the carts about. Ive ended up with a shure m55e on the jvc, and the dv back on the linear arm. It was driving me up the wall with the denon in it. The set up window where its performanc...

Just recieved a mofi studiomaster phono stage so having a play with it. I bought it to replace the graham slee phono so that i could use some of my other carts in place of the broken eroica mc. Got it on a good deal from superfi at 239 quid. Cheaper than replacing the eroica like for like, so it see...

Had to take the denon dl301 out of this selection as im now having to use it in place of the goldring.

Any interest in the other bits and pieces?