Recent content by good_enough

Agree with @Vincent Kars if you're getting an amp you might as well get a pair of RCA cables.

Shame! Cartridge comparisons head to head are rare. You could view it as a public service to all on here.

Looks a good buy . But its specs for phono input of 47k ohms and 100 to 250 cap are absolutely bang average MM specs. AT have been doing this stuff a long time why do you think you'll get HF problems? If anything your setup argues against sibilance. The ND7 recommended range for cap overlaps...

To be fair a got a scratchy one off music magpie last year and also got a swift refund and 'keep the record'.

Back in the day when vinyl was all there was (well and cassette, but we'll move swiftly on) and online wasn't a thing, record shops would acknowledge there was the occasional bad 'un. I recall taking back one - Vaughan Williams if I recall correctly - and telling the woman behind the counter...

Like @Messiah I'm not sure what 'authoritative' means. I'm a network engineer working with bit rates way higher than audio file formats. I.e. Ethernet networks up to 100 Gbps. Getting the 1s and 0s from one box to another should not influence anything. The only possible influences could be...

You could take a punt: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326499194931

Uhuh here's a hobbyist training an AI model. To what end we can but guess.

By demagnetization, with respect to HDDs, are you referring to erasing data? That's two different things.

A bit like this then: https://www.richersounds.com/technics-sa-c600eb-black/?ClickID=WGCW3604jxycRpKWIN0flyS5UksWsHWtX2w73U0&irgwc=1&utm_source=impact&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=221109 Which probably sets the target price point.

That retailer with good returns sounds just the job! Good luck!

Why would you be interested in distortion at max power? Turning the thing up to 11 would risk clipping and shredding your speakers. I would have thought figures at normal listening volumes would be more relevant. On phono stages, as I've written here before, I love the ones on Roksan...

More heat than light in this thread. Perhaps go back to the video, where the presenter says (towards the end) that lossless versus lossy does not make a difference in 'casual listening' but you might notice if you 'really listened'. Yeah OK...

Well, marketing needs an objective. And the objective here is not to 'convert people to analogue'. It's to get people in bricks and mortar stores and onto the habit of browsing the racks rather than shopping online. If one has a negative experience of RSD the brand that suffers is 'Record...

Well listening would be the thing I think 🤔