Recent content by geekonstereo

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    Help Me Choose a TT Set-Up

    How would you compare the sound of the Nagaoka against the Benz Ace and Dynavector? Is the Nagaoka warmer/smoother? Also, do you use the MP-300 or MP-500? And yes, the Musical Fidelity M1ViNYL seems like a good one. It's currently selling for a discounted price at my dealer. Tempting. Cheers
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    Help Me Choose a TT Set-Up

    Thank you for the response. No I do not live in the U.S. I am based in Asia. Well, I auditioned multiple set-ups today, and I think I've found at least the turntable I want. Here are the details of the audition: Since one of you mentioned the Well Tempered Simplex was the best of the lot...
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    Help Me Choose a TT Set-Up

    Hello all, I am looking to get a turntable to match this set up: Monitor Audio Silver 8 tower speakers Rogue Audio Sphinx integrated amp (which includes what I am told is a very good phono stage that can handle cartridges with output of 2.5mV or higher) I have the above two components...
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    Budget Floorstanders + Amp Audition List and Results

    Hello all, After reading tons of reviews, discussions and debates on this forum as well as a couple of others, I did a bunch of auditions and bought my first 'serious' audio system. This is what I finally ended up with: Monitor Audio Silver 8 floorstanding speakers Rogue Audio Sphinx...
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    Monitor Audio Silver 6 or Silver 8

    Hello. Was wondering if anyone had an opinion on these two speakers: Monitor Audio Silver 6 and Monitor Audio Silver 8. I auditioned several speakers: B&W 683 S2, Dali Ikon M6, Boston Acoustics A 360, KEF Q700, Paradigm Monitor 11, Zu Omen I am not saying any of them were bad, but the Monitor...