What are you listening to?

And a very nice deck. Using the same cartridge at this end on an Oracle/Kuzma

Lovely cartridge but that Benz isn't in at the moment, they were older photos that showed more of the turntable, the one in the first shot is in the arm at the moment; a Koetsu red that was tuned by Ken Chan. Part of the tuning is to remove the Koetsu body so it looks a little unusual;

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Last time it went off for retipping it took about six months so I bought the Benz to rotate between the two.

Regards

Mark
 
Lovely cartridge but that Benz isn't in at the moment, they were older photos that showed more of the turntable, the one in the first shot is in the arm at the moment; a Koetsu red that was tuned by Ken Chan. Part of the tuning is to remove the Koetsu body so it looks a little unusual;

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Last time it went off for retipping it took about six months so I bought the Benz to rotate between the two.

Regards

Mark

Wow a naked Koetsu. That is a first for me. At the moment I am switching between the wood and an ACE. The wood I recently exchanged for a Supex with an ESC stylus. A sublime cartridge but a recent sale of a complete system left me with an ARC phono with low gain and I didn't want to go down the road of more stage searching. Very happy where I am with ARC and Accoustic Reality mono blocks and Celestion SL700S speakers.

Love HiFi
 
Very nice!

Actually, not so much into HiFi, more into music so mine hasn't changed - other than retipping a cartridge as needed - since I bought it twenty years ago. I was happy with the sound and saw no reason to upgrade really. My ears have deteriorated after a lifetime of abuse on motor cycles, racing cars and going to rock concerts anyway so I am not sure it would be worth the expenditure. And the law of diminishing returns means it would be expensive too.

Still buying vinyl regularly and pleased to see it's becoming more available too. Most gigs I go to have vinyl on their merchandising stands and the last gig; Trombone Shorty even had vinyl for their support band, The Record Company. I saw KT Tunstall before that and came away with four albums.

I am worse with vinyl than shaving soaps........

Mark
 
Very nice!

Actually, not so much into HiFi, more into music so mine hasn't changed - other than retipping a cartridge as needed - since I bought it twenty years ago. I was happy with the sound and saw no reason to upgrade really. My ears have deteriorated after a lifetime of abuse on motor cycles, racing cars and going to rock concerts anyway so I am not sure it would be worth the expenditure. And the law of diminishing returns means it would be expensive too.

Still buying vinyl regularly and pleased to see it's becoming more available too. Most gigs I go to have vinyl on their merchandising stands and the last gig; Trombone Shorty even had vinyl for their support band, The Record Company. I saw KT Tunstall before that and came away with four albums.

I am worse with vinyl than shaving soaps........

Mark

I am very much the same including the damaged hearing with loud concerts and motorbikes. I have recently cut back on my HiFi getting rid of a whole system.......only to make space for a bigger guitar amp which needs breathing space. I have never stopped the vinyl thing since I was 13 some 45 years back. I am just as happy with DAB radio. Without music life would be dull
 
I should have never sold my Oracle with Fidelity Research arm. I had the same brush also. I purchases VPI Super Scout and now have a Clearaudio Concept. Audio Research phono preamp under Oracle?

ARC pre-amp and Phono stage. Power amps are 2 x Accoustic Reality 1001 mono blocks.

I would have loved an FR 64 or a Sumiko 800 arm but the money never stretched that far. Certainly not with a very wise lady making sure the elasticity of demand stays the right side of the track.
 
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