Recent content by Rui

the CD was sold since 83 ,i think and developed in the 70´s by Philips and in a later stage Philips made a deal with Sony so it could be released sooner , i was still using a 70´s system when having my first cd player and it sounded good but only bought maybe 7 ´till 1994 when music stores...

when moving at 3rd time to a better house i was tired of putting records in boxes after put them again in shelfs this more than once as 3 houses 3times the work and each time more records ,i say 3 as the first house you leave your parents home with already a big collection, that increases by the...

i saw them live countless times before they recorded the first album and after, also bought two lps ,one as mr. crowley(or similar) from ozzy osborne , the other is the previous or next to the one i refer, but always nice to see them live, at start we even laughed of the teatrical work on the...

I still buy records but for a price not more than 30€ with transport, norm ally i buy 99% of them new and i wait ´till the seller wants to get rid of them , and having a taste in music that is very colourfull ,so to speak , (directelly connected to my mood) has i enjoy 40´s records has i enjoy...

i agree with you when you say , records are to be listened, buy them only to in a distant future profit with it , isn´t a sure thing or even makes sense ,about weight , in Portugal all records had from 130 to 140 grams ,since ever, when in London i noticed in the 80´s the records to be super...

There are Technics since since the 70´s with top quality of sound, even some years ago was released a very nice receiver with two big power meters (needles), that with top quality speakers from many brands sounded really good but when connected to some Technics speakers built for it , it...

I just want to refer that in the 90´s i still worked as a DJ, and bought the concorde from Ortofon. Already in the 2000´s, i went to buy a substitution needle for the concorde cartridge, i bought it and the diference or quality of sound ,only with a new modern stylus sounded not like the old...

Only a pitty they all are so low quality in sound and built material , very weak. when in the past regarding cartridges and stylus , i used to say like for other components, "when in doubt buy Ortofon" , as i only knew this brand in a 77 B series Revox turntable, tangential(from my father) ...

This is one i´m still using ,very clean sound only mine is the mark X(10) is in a 79 SL-1310 mk II i´m using at the moment , only lost the litle front letters as it were inserted in new stylus casing side grabing lines on the front of the stylus casing, i used to buy susbstitution needles from...

Did it get too hot at 85% of the power?i when younger put a pioneer amplifier at top volume and destroyd a big woofer of a called studio monitor from JBL, but was me not yet a man, at this time had a ofered by a alcoholic man also came from Africa like us family and he had lost all is owned...

Loudness when minimum volume, it´s for what it exists, but less and less seen on good amplifiers or better say control amplifiers and i also found funny(or interesting) you trying to explain about bass sound release , because in a mid 70´s system, the bass when up , the bass heard was like...

i think you have a point there, but the thorens TD160, old was very good but newer versions i didn´t try them , all other brands had good turntables and today i see brands i know releasing ok turntables, so you are right. Some of my friends might have it but never saw any problems with it as...

don´t know why but i feel that it´s the reverse, but there´s a logic in your comment as the better sounding system one has, including the turntable , a simple but faithfull to the sound in the record, cartridge, will sound much better as the system itself provides a better sound, has already...

Starting in the cadenza series it seems the sound of old Ortofon in their cheap MM cartridges, i ended up buying the so many times refered as great , the 2M Black, but was a bit of a let down , as it sounds good but not detailed as others more old , it as more high´s but that depth in sound...

I´m not critising but the P3 and 2m red are not close to what was cheap in the 90´s in terms of quality of reading the records grooves and the building quality, just saying. As an example what in 96/97 used to cost what today is 150€ the full automatic technics turntable but saw also with belt...