Redline wrote:I'm on my third Grado Platinum. It's a good combo with my solid state electronics. I'm hearing good things about the Shelter 201, though.

So you find the Grado a good compliment for solid state and non-suspended table? I've always liked the looks of that one, or the Sonata, but read that it pick up some intereference from the motor on my Linn. When I was buying a few years ago I was choosing between the Ortofon Kontra line and the Shelters, I went with the Ortofon. I'd like to try something different with the next one though.

Yuh, that's true- the motor on the VPI is far enough away. I had to make sure the SDS controller was far enough away too, or it would pick up hum.
I've never had a moving coil cartridge, I'm curious, but my pre amp is set up for a MM, and I don't feel like forking over $$$ to buy a MC phono amp, etc...Maybe after I get a new roof, new slab in back, paint the bathroom, etc...
I'm really happy with the way everything sounds now. I got the 45 rpm 2 lp Charlie Brown Christmas Soundtrack and I swear Vince Guaraldi's ghost is in my living room now.

Maybe it's because the the extra gain required, but I've found that moving coil cartridges, especially low output like I'm using now, offer the greatest differences in sound between various cartridges. Though there are definitely some smooth MM ones out there. Basically, you'd be opening a whole new can of worms, sounds like you've got a pretty nice setup, those vpi tables would be at the top of my list if I didn't have the linn.

Ebay often shows some pretty disturbing things. I present to you, EA board members, the Conway Twitty Knife, Hello Darlin' edition.



Hello Darlin'....nice to see ya......STAB STAB STAB STAAAAAAB, you're not as lovely as you used to be.

i have taken up a part time job this week. today it was quite slow and i am still being trained in. at one point i was asked if i had any questions, i said i did have one question. "what happens when you die?" my manager looked puzzled for a moment. then we had a laugh.

Redline wrote:I'm on my third Grado Platinum. It's a good combo with my solid state electronics. I'm hearing good things about the Shelter 201, though.

Sexy time!

pah. moving magnets.

Braden wrote:those vpi tables would be at the top of my list if I didn't have the linn.

get the Cirkus and Trampolin upgrades if you haven't. The VPIs are nice, but I think the Linn sounds a lot better if properly set up.

and yes, get a MC cartridge if you can swing it. A good preamp like a Linn Linto, or even an old Linn Kairn (with phono) is not terribly expensive.

I had to sit in a "customer service" seminar/indoctrination cum cult meeting today.

It was highly odd.

The handout materials are hilarious. The corporate trainer lady was very perky. We were a roomful of sarcastic people.

When she wrote YES I CAN on the blackboard, I did not stifle my retort, which is the same one you would say yourselves, had you been in that room with me. Since this is the case, I do not feel the need to type it.

I "won" one of the "prizes" because I found an eloquent and un-snotty way to reverse a bad customer experience. The prize was one of those cheeseball three-cornered hilighter markers, emblazoned with the corporate trainer's logo.

I am glad the other tech from my department was in this session, because now we can lord it over our other co-workers that we have superior customer satisfaction skills.

burun wrote:cum cult

I would not see this band.

kerble wrote:

burun wrote:cum cult

I would not see this band.

That's all you can say?

TREMBLE BEFORE MY SUPERIOR CUSTOMER SERVICE SKILLS.

I almost confessed to Corporate Trainer Lady that the reason why I was so good at it was because I used to train call center operators. But she took such joy in giving me the tri-hilighter that I did not want to crush her gentle spirit.