royphil345
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Lakewood, OH
clubs:
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Re: Vinyl anyone?
Congrats!!! Sounds like you're all set. I think you will like the Shure. It's a hard cartridge not to like, although you may want something with a little more "zing" someday.
Don't confine yourself to "audiophile" reissues. I usually prefer the sound of an original pressing in good shape.
LOL... I actually DID snap the cantilever on my Shure, or else I probably would have offered it to you. The cantilevers on the Shures seem a little more delicate than most. I once received a V-15 brand new with a broken cantilever. Replacement stylus costs about the same as the whole cart, so I didn't bother offering... Keeping my Audio Technica as a backup.
Sounds like you bought the Art DJ USB preamp? Should work out nice. I'm using the tape-outs on my receiver to an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 sound card. The transfers sound pretty nice, as long as I use a cart with enough output. I've got a bunch of weird old stuff up on Demonoid if you want to check it out... »www.demonoid.com/files/?uid=3609683&seeded=2 |
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drjim
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Long Beach, CA
clubs: | Oh, yeah, the V-15! Great cart, but as you found, a bit 'delicate' at times.
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Steely
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said by royphil345  :Sounds like you bought the Art DJ USB preamp? The one I ordered is called the Art PhonoPlus but I'm not sure if they'll ship the PhonoPlus V2 described here which is USB 2.0 compliant and has an adjustable headphone volume, or the previous (discontinued?) PhonoPlus version which uses USB 1.1. The description in Amazon says V2 but the product name doesn't, so we'll see what arrives. At least one Amazon reviewer, however, reported receiving the V2 model with this order.
said by royphil345 :I'm using the tape-outs on my receiver to an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 sound card. The transfers sound pretty nice, as long as I use a cart with enough output. They carry that sound card for $99 at the same place that Amazon gets the Art preamp from!
»www.audiomidi.com/AudioPhile-2496-P962.aspx
BTW, when I custom ordered my last Dell desktop a few years back I purposely went with the significantly more expensive Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi sound card option so that I could do things like make nice digital recordings from analog sources. I can't tell you how pissed of I was to find out after the warranty expired that the stereo line inputs don't work! Apparently the card doesn't have dedicated analog line-in jacks but instead relies on some kind of auto-sensing switch to assign function. Well it doesn't work! I had better luck 8 or 9 years ago with an integrated Yamaha sound card! One of these days I'm going to transfer the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (THX?) card from a donated spare PC into my desktop. Until then, I'll use USB!
I went to sample your vinyl transfers but I'm a little embarrased to say don't know what to do with torrent files.  I've never used bit torrents! |
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Steely
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said by royphil345 :I think you will like the Shure. It's a hard cartridge not to like, although you may want something with a little more "zing" someday. Oh crap, maybe I screwed up! I really LIKE zing!!! 
I found your review on Amazon. Since I'd already read it prior to starting this thread I can now say you've been advising me for longer than we both knew! |
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