Recent content by seandynan

Thanks CnoEvil.

Interconnects are one of the first noticeable upgrades on a budget system. Two stories: (1) The wife and I were given a present by my audiophile brother - a pair of decent interconnects between the CD player and amp for our newlywed, all-Rotel hi-fi. The difference was like night and day, even...

Funny enough, I connected up my old, VERY entry level Goldring GR1 and there is zero rumble from that, no bearing noise, no motor noise. Just good, old surface noise and crackle. Sigh... I'm now very tempted to just get a Clearaudio Concept or even its second hand equivalent. At least (I...

What do you guys think of the Pioneer PLX-1000? Seems to be getting extraordinary praise for a 'DJ' turntable. http://www.stereophile.com/content/gramophone-dreams-4 That said, I have a 'audiophile' friend in work who uses a Technics SL1200 over his other, more expensive tables. He was almost...

Have you any more advice on this? My turntable is placed on a long coffee table which is a solid slab of walnut or something similar (it is a two-person lift to move it). The amp will sit on the coffee table shelf, about 10" beneath the turntable. My speakers are on metal stands at either end of...

Thanks again, guys, I really appreciate your advice. I'm 99% certain I'm going to trade up from the Pro-Ject. I'm not going to waste more listening time (and money) trying to cure a design defect which I can't live with. When you guys drop your stylii on your players, what do you hear? Just...

Well, well, well. I was fussing with the platter and noticed that knocking my knuckles against the plinth made a 'tone' that sounded a lot like that rumble I was talking about. A bit of Googling revealed that this is a common gripe with Pro-Ject turntables. I removed the two screws and grommets...

Thanks bigfish. The tonearm is set up to the best of my abilities. The tracking force is set to 1.75 grams accoring to my little scale, the cartridge is aligned properly by the protractor supplied with the turntable and the anti-skate is attached to the right part of the tone arm. And the...

That noise is there on every record, whether new or old. It is defintiely worse on older, thinner vinyl so I think I'm hearing motor or bearing noise. And that is through a cork and rubber mat!

Many thanks guys! Lots of useful advice coming out. To clear things up a little, I'm not hung up on on floor standers per se. I just fancied a pair and have never owned them before. I wanted to cure the brashness that happens when I turn up the volume on my current set-up. The volume knob on...

Please see my new thread, Dave! ;)

Hello all. For Fathers' Day my wonderful daughters collected together various old bits of hi-fi I had lying in storage around the house and assembled them all in our front room so I could have somewhere to listen to music, like I used to as a teenager. Despite being initially overjoyed, it...

Thanks again for the advice, guys. Not sure what my budget is for any one component any more. I might have to rethink. Now I'm wondering if I aimed too low on my turntable, based on stuff I'm hearing in my headphones. :( Perhaps I should start a new thread for that.

Thanks for the replies, guys. I asked Richer Sounds here in Belfast about auditioning those 3 sets of speakers but they don't carry the Aero 6 in store(!). And the Tannoy isn't for sale any more in the Belfast store, Andrew. :( I'm going to phone them in a minute to see if I can presuade them...

I'm looking for floor standers that don't have woolly bass and don't have brash upper-mid and harsh highs. I don't need sub-woofer type low freqeuncies but I want to hear the bass. My source is a Pro-Ject Debut turntable and I listen to stuff like Kraftwerk, Dire Straits, Alt-J, Talk Talk...