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I just bought a 75 inch Samsung and just last week this receiver.  What a difference in the picture  on the TV from my older Yamaha.  I have PSB tower speakers in the front...PSB bookshelf in the back.  Klipsch center speaker and  small Klipsch subwoofer which between the PSB towers shake the house pretty good.  I will have to take an updated picture.

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On 1/19/2021 at 4:00 PM, gurn said:

What do you have?

What do you recommend?

What are you looking at improving?

 

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Audiomeca Romance turntable, with a Raphael tone arm and a Charisma mm103 cartridge

Creek  CD53 disc player

Lovo Think Pad laptop, using Apple's I tunes and a  M2TECH, HiFace Interface.

Dyna Lab  FT101 tuner

 

Converters/ Phono stage:

P.S. Audio Digital Link

Moon 5.3 Phono Amp

 

Pre Amp

Celeste PS-5  Power Supply

Celeste P5 Pre-amp

 

Amps

2 upgraded Antique Sound Labs, Wave 8 amps

2 Wave 8 amps, stock.

 

Speakers

1 Pair  Altec Lansing  Santanna in cabinets for the base

1 pair of Santannas, using just the front baffle (infinite baffle) with the tweeters disconnected, for the mid range

1 pair EMT/Heil  tweeters.

 

Inter connects are 

Audio Quest, Yukon everywhere but the turntable 

with Audio Quest  King Cobra for t.t.

 

Speaker Cable:

Monster cable         to the tweeters

Totem                       to the bass bins                      

Linn                           to the mid range.

 

 

Looking at replacing the speaker cables or the laptop/inter face as it is currently NFG. My cat managed to knock the laptop off the shelf  and now it only works from time time, and the interface is questionable/broken  as well.

 

I highly recommend the Charisma mm-103 cartridge, a huge upgrade on the Denon 103 which was the sire/inspiration for the Charisma. Much better everywhere in the frequency range, depth and width of the soundstage.

 

 

I have a Bose 700, with subwoofer and the smaller rear speakers. It's great. Has some punch to it. Don't want anything larger as I live in an apartment.

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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/music/manufacturers-struggle-to-keep-pace-with-vinyl-record-demand/ar-AAYPLsx?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=16896ae84c904dcc8267c701512f208f

The arrival of the compact disc nearly killed off record albums, with vinyl pressing machines sold, scrapped and dismantled by major record labels.

Four decades later, with resuscitated record album sales producing double-digit annual growth, manufacturers are rapidly rebuilding an industry to keep pace with sales that reached $1 billion last year.

 

Dozens of record-pressing factories have been built to try to meet demand in North America — and it's still not enough.

The industry "has found a new gear, and is accelerating at a new pace,” said Mark Michaels, CEO and chairman of United Record Pressing, the nation’s largest record producer, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Demand for vinyl records has been growing in double-digits for more than a decade and mass merchandisers like Target were bolstering their selection of albums just as the pandemic provided a surprising jolt. With music tours canceled, and people stuck at home, music lovers began snapping up record albums at an even faster pace.

Record album sales revenue grew a whopping 61% in 2021 — and reached $1 billion for the first time since the 1980s — far outpacing growth rates for paid music subscriptions and streaming services like Spotify and Pandora, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.

Record albums nearly spun into oblivion with sales overtaken by cassettes before the compact discs brushed both aside. Then came digital downloads and online piracy, Apple iPods and 99-cent downloads. Streaming services are now ubiquitous.

But nostalgic baby boomers who missed thumbing through record albums in their local record stores helped to fuel a vinyl resurgence that started about 15 years ago.

It coincided with the launch of Record Store Day to celebrate indie record stores, said Larry Jaffee, author of “Record Store Day: The Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century.”

These days, though, it's more than just boomers.

A younger generation is buying turntables and albums — and cassette tapes, too — and a new generation of artists like Adele, Ariana Grande and Harry Styles have been moving to vinyl, Jaffee noted.

In Pittsburgh, taxi driver Jamila Grady is too young, at age 34, to remember the heyday of record stores.

But she finds records to be irresistible. She created wall art from some of the album covers from nearly 50 albums she's bought since 2019, starting with “Lemonade” by Beyoncé. She acknowledges it's an indulgence since she already listens to music through Soundcloud, Apple Music and Pandora.

“For record players, there’s something so beautiful about taking the record, putting it on the payer, and dropping the needle,” she said.

Manufacturers had to start nearly from scratch.

 
 

The major labels shuttered their plants long ago, but new ones are coming online. Record makers launching over the last 10 to 15 years include Toronto-based Precision Record Pressing, Memphis Record Pressing, Cleveland’s Gotta Groove Records and Kansas’ Quality Record Pressing.

Jack White of White Stripes, opened his own vinyl pressing plant, Third Man Pressing, in 2017 in Detroit, and pleaded with the major record labels to reopen manufacturing facilities.

There are now about 40 plants in the U.S. — most of them smaller operations — but challenges remain.

Nationwide, backlogs are six to eight months because of growing demand, and supply chain disruptions of raw materials, including vinyl polymers, have caused problems, Michaels said.

It's not easy to launch a new pressing plant because there are only a handful of companies — none in the U.S. — that make record-pressing machines. Those machines are backordered, as well.

People can debate the sound quality but it comes down to an emotional reaction, not technical specifications, said Bob Ludwig, a multi-Grammy winner who created Gateway Mastering Studios in Portland, Maine.

A friend who listened to Ludwig's remastered version of Queen’s “Night at the Opera” called it “stunning” and “electric.”

“I love the vinyl experience. All of it. To me, there is an electrifying sound when I play records that I don’t feel from digital," said Mark Mazzetti, an independent A&R executive who worked for Sting, Janet Jackson and others at A&M Records.

No one knows the ceiling for record growth because of the constrained supply, said Chris Brown, vice president for finance at Bull Moose Records, a record store chain in New England.

New releases often fail to meet demand, and reorders take even longer, leaving little capacity for lesser-known eclectic albums, he said.

“Part of the fun of collecting records is being surprised,” he said. “But midlevel stuff doesn’t get printed, or there’s a long wait.”

Record producers gather this week in Nashville for their annual trade event called Making Vinyl.

People in the business are excited about the growth, and it's almost like “printing money” for manufactures as sales soar to new heights every year, said Bryan Ekus, president of Making Vinyl.

No one knows how long the run will continue, so there's a sense that “we should make hay while the sun shines,” Ekus said.

In Nashville, United Record Pressing launched in 1949 and never stopped producing records. It’s currently in the midst of a $15 million expansion that will triple its capacity in the middle of next year.

Michaels can’t help but to wonder how long the double-digit growth can be sustained, but he said he's optimistic about the future.

It’s both heartwarming and good for business to see high schoolers and young adults showing an interest in records, he said.

“I believe in music and I believe in the importance of music in people’s lives. I don’t think that changes,” he said.

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Looking at getting a 48"-50" secondary TV for for pretty much all TV show/movie watching (no gaming).

 

Have narrowed it down to the LG C1 and A1 OLED's or the Sony X95J LCD (local dimming). Would love the Sony A90K OLED but it's silly priced compared to the LG's.

 

Far prefer the Sony/Google OS (and processing) vs LG's WebOS, and LG's inability to even passthrough any DTS is super annoying (I'll be streaming content from Plex server), but OLED's are just far superior TV's...so I'm struggling.

 

Thoughts? Recommendations?

 

Also, while I'm at it...WTF is with the out of whack US/Canada pricing?! I can get the LG C1 right now for $796US, even after exchange, shipping and customs, it's about $1200 or the same price as the inferior A1 is up here! Plus tax!

 

 

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10 minutes ago, aGENT said:

Looking at getting a 48"-50" secondary TV for for pretty much all TV show/movie watching (no gaming).

 

Have narrowed it down to the LG C1 and A1 OLED's or the Sony X95J LCD (local dimming). Would love the Sony A90K OLED but it's silly priced compared to the LG's.

 

Far prefer the Sony/Google OS vs LG's WebOS, and LG's inability to even passthrough any DTS is super annoying annoying (I'll be streaming content from Plex server), but OLED's are just far superior TV's...so I'm struggling.

 

Thoughts? Recommendations?

 

Also, while I'm at it...WTF is with the out of whack US/Canada pricing?! I can get the LG C1 right now for $796US, even after exchange, shipping and customs, it's about $1200 or the same price as the inferior A1 is up here! Plus tax!

 

 

Economies of scale is one of the reasons.

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^ Tough part about stereo 'speak/talk' is almost everyone will describe things with different words.

"Voices drift towards you" can mean there is no forceful pushing of the vocals, or over emphasis.

 

But years back I was listening to a pair of Wilson Grand Slam speakers, powered by a pair of Mark Levinson Mono blocks and the drum set 'drifted' from it's original position, to 6 feet up in the air.

I tied blaming it on a non cement floor- sales guy says- nope it is a cement floor

No sound room treatment?-  Nope that's been done.

 

"Well in that case, that didn't sound right at all"

$100,000 speakers at that time.

walk down the street listened to a pair of Totem speakers, $2,500 and a wonderful pairing of an amp and pre amp $5,000 total, way, way better.

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I note that it has been 3 and a half years since I started the thread, and while I have replaced my digital interface, the old mostly broken laptop is still here :(

Sure, there was the whole covid thing, but 3.5 years.?

 

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