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This is a very smooth sounding recording. Rumer's voice to the orchestration of these timeless tunes, highly recommended for relaxed, downtime listening. At this time, I would like to be as brief with this report as I can. My turntable comparo from last week tuned out to be a bit of a shock. First off, just because you spend huge $$$ on a particular electronic component doesn't always mean it is more refined or better sounding, I have learned this over and over again. After all, we just need to smoothly and quietly rotate the vinyl, have a tone arm with precision bearings and balance and a cartridge of quality to get great results. I think that many of you good listeners most likely don't own a fine, shielded phono switcher to make DIRECT side by side turntable tests of your best players in real time with identical LP's through the same phono stage etc. as I was able last week. I can now say, through this experience, I have. It also showed me that once you reach a certain point, more money doesn't always give you the results that you would expect. Here, I spent what is over the top money (my budget) for the Rega RP-6 with optional, fully jeweled, machined from solid billet aluminum, high tolerance bearing subplatter. I figured it was the best sounding of all turntables I have ever owned. Along comes this whim to try a small turntable company here in my own state, started by a couple of fellows that love vinyl. I reach out, fill a custom order with all the options and the best cartridge they install on their tone arm. Costing in total only 1/5th of what the Rega cost. Fast forward. The results? Both turntables stayed in perfect sync through each complete side of the record, a good thing showing their speeds were well matched. The Exact 2 cartridge and the Ortofon 2M Blue...... Both have the same output, no volume differences noted. Bass response SAME, midrange SAME. High frequencies? The Rega, DULL (like taking the treble control, and rotating it counter clockwise)! The Ortofon? Great clarity! There is more. Lets talk about stereo width.........Exact 2, narrow, Ortofon, WIDE. Also, the Exact 2 was favoring the RIGHT channel sheesh !!! The 2M Blue, centered and balanced. I know we all love your turntables, and they are works of art for sure, but lets face it. You get to a point where it all becomes fine looking 'jewerly', and if you were to do a side by side with an instant switchout, I think you would be surprised with the results of a product at lesser price point as I have SHOCKINGLY found out for myself!! Here then is a photo from tonight's spin, with the clear winner remaining on the audio rack. (I'm still scratching my head over the results!) Thanks for reading. At some point, I am going to see about an Ortofon 2M Blue for the Rega and that should be a nice, improved downgrade

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Wow! How appropriate that my 666 POST goes to you Mike. Never time waisted to approach Nirvana! Are you still playing CD's? Love you Kid! Hi Gee!

Sunday night here in Aust Just spinning the Pink Floyd LP that I posted about earlier Lights out and enjoying it This record is stunningly quiet ( but I cleaned it first ) and well produced A great alternative LP to replace an older scuffed record Artist - Pink Floyd Title - Wish You Were Here Album ID - https://www.discogs.com/release/14474203-Pink-Floyd-Wish-You-Were-Here

So very true George. Thanks for putting some perspective on the reality of our times. Cheers

a waste of time..2 and a half hours of lost vinyl spinning!

The Willie Nelson record mentioned in my post above. Perfect for a Sunday morning, and still sounding phenomenal... Willie Neslon - It Always will be.

Good morning my friends here on Paul's Vinyl Spinning . I know I went on a bit of a rant last night, and I tried not to sound 'cocky' and for sure meant and hoped not to offend anyone here, and if I did, I apologize for that I was just trying to be honest and as complete with my report to you all with the rather simple but VERY revealing test. Appreciate the 'thanks and likes' applied to my post. And now, back to our favorite musics. Enjoy the day and thanks again for reading

Micro, it's a SME 309👌

I don´t think it appropriate to give a like to Your post, but i agree to what You write. We can be happy that we have our families, friends, music and so much more...

Well ..... it's not like I can't listen to music with the number of audio components I have available. Of course I will miss not being able to spin records, but it is more important to me to have the functionality of both tonearms in perfect technical condition, as I plan to use this tt until the end of my days. So it is worth waiting patiently for 2 weeks and to have the certainty that everything is technically perfect.

No worries Gary. You provided your honest opinion based upon the results of your own comparison test. Ultimately, It's all good, and all completely subjective, depending each individuals, preferences. That's why there is a wide market of products out there. I'll share an experience I had a little over 15 years ago. I have been a Klipsch guy since my late teens. Case closed. I love Klipsch "Heritage" loudspeakers. To me nothing had sounds better. I started out with Heresy's, than Cornwalls, LaScala's, and eventually Klipschorns. About 15 years ago, I decided to go to a high end stereo shop to see where audio technology had advanced in the new digital age. In short, he took me into his main listening room, where he had a million dollar+ stereo set up. I remember these massive Focal speakers, gold interconnect cables, speaker wires that looked like high voltage power lines. Anyway, he put on an lp, because I was primarily an analog guy. Willie Nelson, an album I had. Let me say it sounded incredible. This room had all the treatments, and Willy was right there. It was impressive. Upon returning home, I immediately played the same lp on my humble tube system, with at the time, my LaScala's, and it sounded phenomenal. I was so overjoyed. I didn't need to upgrade anything. What I took away from that experience was that, Klipsch and Dynaco's are awesome, for me. Focal and million dollar components are awesome, for someone who can shop in that market. What it all boils down to, as the Japanese say, maintaining your wa, or harmony. Cheers

I have said and posted similar thoughts And the final result is to look at a system holistically at any price point In the past advertising was a little more honest These days it’s mostly spin the best catch phrase

George, let´s say You want to use it for many more years to come. The way You said it, it sounds depressing...

Whew! Thank you Mossy, and of your observations and experience in that audio shop. It is interesting, a good friend and fellow musician of mine from sales at a (now closed) audio 'salon' uptown mentioned to me a few years ago...."You know Gary, we really haven't come that far...." This is the same shop that surprised me with that Teac 6010 R to R deck as a gift. Needless to say, I am still grateful they kept it hidden in their stock room for a number of years with a 'post it' note on it with my name. Here, Longfellow Music Hall is still open and I plan on dropping by with some vinyl recordings to take in and share this evening. See you all in a bit.

I wasn’t looking for this subject but I stumbled across this video and thought to share Ortofon cartridge set up from start to finish

Ok, meanwhile, I am spinning a brand new bit of vinyl here in the 'Hall'. This was the recording I found in the 25% discount bin at Barnes and Noble local to me. There were some folks over in RTM sometime a while back that discovered this fine lady artist and I bought the CD everyone was listening to. So, when I found the last copy of this at the store, I could not resist picking it up. Here is the front cover art and a closeup of the sticker on the shrink wrap.

Changed the arms today!

Nice Tonearms @KROCK 👍 Looks like SME Series V ( left ) and a Jelco SA 750 D .

an ad for Coke with coffee I have done that by accident. I did not enjoy the experience. ......................It will prolly be a big hit.

IMO, measuring at a considerable distance from the speakers and from just one position, even if it is the Main Listening Position, with REW is a mistake, unless, perhaps, you listen alone and keep your head in the same position during each listening session. As you know, there are modes and nulls that alter bass response, different specular and diffuse reflections and different patterns of beaming, with different treble response. See http://www.acousticfrontiers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/room_mode_calc.gif Moving your head a few inches might produce considerably different results. This is the primary reason both Paul W. Klipsch and Edgar Villchur were against the use of graphic equalizers, because the ideal response in one position could result in lousy response if you moved to a slightly different one. That may be the only thing Paul and Edgar ever agreed on!😁😬 There are several ways to attempt to get around this. One is to take an average of several positions. How many? The lowest number I've heard is 3. Room correction devices often use considerably more; Audyssey uses 8, Dirac 9 to 17. Rather than a simple average, room correction often uses proprietary "fuzzy logic" (a good thing) processing. Because of this, it might be a good idea to start with one of these devices, then measure from multiple positions -- or just trust the device to provide smooth enough response.

Great set up there! If I wasn't trying to downsize my collection, I'd grab them. Almost did a month ago. Somebody is going to get a killer system.

(Mossy hangin' in the house on a Sunday afternoon )

just a point of view André , wasn´t intended that way. But somehow you can read between the lines, while we got luxury problems , 1.200 miles from here happens a genocide and people fight about their lives. That´s still in mind since Putin invaded Ukraine.

Picked these up this am. Seller was very nice. Any local deals on RC-64 III now?

Now spinning:

for Canadians... Triode Lab

Easy.. if you are me... I thought the cup was half full of coffee and topped it off... it wasn't coffee in the cup. One of the games was fun. Kansas/Villanova might have been close, if 'Nova would have taken the lid off the basket before the game started. They played pretty even after the first 10 minutes. Tarheel is happy today. UNC/Duke was close all of the way.

OK...just how do you make that mistake?

Oiling and waxing in Progress. Work must be inspected and verified:

Where are you located?

Here, the other side of the inner sleeve......nice photo 🍷

Down time is the pits @MicroMara Lets hope it’s just a quick service and fix

Then these guys played every place for a hundred miles around in about 1980 where I'm from. Leans towards pop but pretty decent for a home turf band. Freakin' great by today's radio standards!

I offered him a trade for a $10K pair of Heresy's

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It’s official I’m the new owner of EPIC CF4 V1 BLACK More pictures will comes later

Big thanks to Dave A for the Lmahls,

I'd sell my LS for $12,000 and throw in a second Pair for FREE!

Pictures?

Along with other things.

The top one looks like the driver has been removed, the bottom one has the black conical bit poking through, with some white stuff on it. What do you see?

Grilles are interchangeable with the cane grilles on my HIIs. Must’ve had utilized leftover cane grilles in the c. 1986 “Signature Edition”... No plans to crack open the rear panels, as long as they sound fine. When remodeling is finished in den, I’ll peel away most, if not all of the walnut veneer.

Tell him I’ll swap him back the HIIs, even money. 😇

They sound different, I think, than Heresy II, wo doing a A/B test. Contractors are through for the week, so I re-ran Audyssey with these, and installed the SPL-150,:along with the RW-12d. Listening now.

Sweet

Can be there as early as tomorrow. PM @ you.