Recent content by steve4232

If you like the sound of the Ortofon, why not stick with the brand? They make some truly outstanding cartridges. Have you heard a 2M Blue? I agree with PP though, if you're a "tweaker" maybe you should try a Rega table next. If not, then you'd have to go a long way to beat the Pro-Jects. If you...

It's pretty blooming obvious really that Hi-Res is better than standard Redbook 16 bit / 44.1kHz. Only a fool could argue otherwise. If you think about it vinyl cut entirely from analogue sources without any digital futzing in the chain is "infinite" resolution. No one can tell me they can't...

As someone else who regularly explores the past, I know exactly what you mean! I can listen to a 1927 HMV 202 "Re-entrant tone chamber" gramophone, a fully mechanical and acoustic wind-up gramophone, and think to myself how could it ever get any better than this? Indeed it has been said...

This is my last post on the subject as clearly I am in the minority over the value of source components. The consensus seems to be that speakers and amps are everything so why bang my head against the wall pointlessly? Various members have wrongly assumed I'm an old vinyl junkie and I'm only...

I agree Carpenter's scores are good and were partly influenced by the work of Dario Argento and GOBLIN whose original score for "Suspiria" is also frighteningly good.

Talking of spinning corpses and John Williams, has anyone else noticed how the main theme to the original Star Wars film borrows heavily from a section of Carl Nielsen's Fifth Symphony?

Excellent advice, Vlad, thanks! I do have two spirit levels but I'm not sure which one to trust! The longest or the shortest? They both say different things. I guess the 60cm long metal "builders type" would be the one to use? My smaller (and more convenient) plastic unit at 15cm long shows it...

I'll certainly take a look at shims but I think the diameter of the cones is probably too large to accommodate most widely available sizes. The thing is there isn't enough of a flange for the shims to rest against to be effective enough. It's just the thickness of the gauge of the steel tubing...

That would be very easy and I agree that with most speaker stands or Target type it is feasible. However the rack has screw-in cone shaped feet that simply go into the threaded tubular corner posts. There is nowhere to install a "lock nut" sadly. They're either screwed in as far as they will go...

If you're into weird experiemental sci-fi type soundtracks (for space fiction movies) try out Eduard Artemyev's "Solaris" or even "The Mirror" or "Stalker" "2001" is cool, I agree! I've got an original 1968 MGM vinyl with its original film poster included.

You don't have to be quite so patronising! What you seem to miss here though is that this has also been MY experience. I'm not blindly following a doctrine that is 40 years out of date apparently just to please the owner of a company I have one single product from that I bought second hand over...

"Bullit" (Lalo Schifrin) "The Mission" (Ennio Morricone) ......in fact anything by EM. I've just bought a 15 CD box set of film music, TV music and songs. Fantastic stuff. "Diva" (Vladimir Cosma) "1492" (Vangelis) ......200 times better than the lousy picture the music was squandered in...

Yes, I already know the Linn history, thanks, blah, blah, blah...................... So the LP12 is rubbish then? This weekend I'm going to send my Lp12 to landfill in disgust. How dare it pretend to be an RD11!

Wow! You mean to say that Linn have only ever been in the business for the money. I'm shocked! So what better t/tables were the experts listening to then? Technics Direct Drive? Tell that to this magazine which has recently rewarded the LP12 in basic form, 5 stars even though the price has...

Because the floor is not level and quite uneven. Even though the XS105 can be "levelled" by screwing the spiked feet up or down to vary the height, I've found it is an abysmal design / flaw. As you unscrew the spiked foot from the fully turned in/locked position, it becomes wobbly and unstable...