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In Reply to: RE: The 95 is the best cheap cartridge on the market. Give it 50 hours or so break in. posted by Opus 33 1/3 on February 24, 2015 at 09:29:55
Thanks! Since ordering, I've read of only good things about the AT95E, including giving units costing twice as much or more a run for their money. I'm really looking forward to it, and thank you for the breaking-in estimate. In that event, I may need to find a clean LP and play it in its entirety fifty times, with the audio off, and before I begin to convert some selections to '.mp3' format. Not that I'd prefer them converted, but to preserve them. The image attached is of an introductory set, the original of which I had repeatedly checked out of a library as a teen. Within, in my opinion, are at least two definitive interpretations of the master's art, surprisingly perhaps.
Cheers,
Alan
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Memory is cheap nowadays, you can always converted to MP3 for your playback device. But you should definitely have a lossless master copy. I prefer 24-bit 96 kHz using Aiff format, but any lossless format should be significantly better than a lossy MP3 format. I play back my ripped records using Audirvana via the iTunes library through either the dragonfly version 1.2 or my on board d to a processor on my Parasound pre. like I said, if your playback device has limited memory then just convert to MP3 just for your playback device retaining the high-resolution recording for future playback device iterations.
You can't cheat an honest man, never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump -- W.C. Fields
I was wondering how to best preserve the sound quality of the vinyl. Thank you! My player is my computer, mainly, and with 8GB of memory and a 1TB HDD.
Whilst a picture is worth a thousand words, music, intangible, is worth a thousand pictures, ad infinitum.
made a big difference. I went a bit higher with the cart, settling on a Grado Prestidge Red, which at the time was $110, IIRC. It is $140-160 now.
The tweaks didn't bring the 2 up to a 5, but close. My next two tables were the MMF-5 and finally the MMF-7, which I sold about 12 years ago.
Opus 33 1/3
I had the mmf-5.0, with its bottle-green glass platter. Sadly, it was destroyed in a fire in 2005, ten years ago this very month as a matter of fact. I miss it, of course. When I decided to replace it after we built our new home, Music Direct had the mmf-2.1le on closeout. I couldn't resist.
I never got to use the 5.0 much at all, so I'll never really know what I missed, save its aesthetics.
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