Dearest Buddy :-D THANK YOU so much for putting it for me!!!! I am going to pin this up!!!! Warmest Regards to you and all your vinyl playing buddies in your own ecosphere!!! We catch up, anytime. THankful and grateful to you, ~ ian.
Hi, i hv seen yr videos since a long time n i find it tremendously informative,thank you. my question: i m not sure how to contact u, so my first try. question: hv u heard the Hana ML n Ortofon Cadenza Red? which would u prefer for Rega P6? hope to reach u, thank you with best wishes Jin Goh e-mail: jin.goh@gmx.de
I dont mean to be off topic but does someone know a method to get back into an instagram account? I somehow forgot my account password. I appreciate any tips you can offer me
@Alijah Adonis thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site on google and Im in the hacking process now. Takes a while so I will reply here later with my results.
Dear Fellow Friend-in-Vinyl, Take your time to learn along, i went through the process as well... could look quite daunting but once you do it hands on, ... sweet! The feeling's great :-D Best Regards, and may you have many wondrous years of vinyl music appreciation ahead, - ian.
Dear Buddy David, thank you for coming by and catching up👋😊!!! Hope you have a beautiful and rewarding vinyl'ing journey ahead😄🎶🎵🎶🎶! Thank you for your kind words and support!! Have fun!
Mounting that first cartridge is like a rite of passage. it will not be fast or easy but it feels so good when you finally get it right. And no matter how experienced you are you can always use a refresher.
Dear Buddy :-D !!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D Congratulations!!! Hahaha!!!... well done!!!!! Wishing you great times ahead in Connecticut with your vinyl buddies like Paneeks1960 (Rob) from Boston!!!
Alvaro From Earth Dear Brother🤗thank you!! I hope the mnemonics provided is helpful: DeLiCious Party Food Or A Steak VouCher For Six 👋😄👌!! Brother i am thankful to see you again.
Dear Buddy :-D do help yourself to the information. I received many life's learnings and happiness, thanks to lovely friends made by virtue of our common love of vinyl analogue music appreciation. I want to give back. Warmest Regards buddy, and do catch Paul from Texas: "barakapdub" channel, he runs superb Tales of the Deadwax and many vinyl pressings information. :-D Thank you for your time and friendship. See you buddy! ~ ian
That information regarding azimuth is something I feel is grossly overlooked. Many people know about tracking and antiskate, but azimuth is rarely mentioned. Thanks for these helpful guides and hints.
Hi buddy!!! Yes thank you :-D ...on all my cartridge reviews, i do align the azimuth correctly as for each cartridge. The Jelco HS-25 headshells are really top value for money, i had noticed, and have been using: lightweight, magnesium-body for resonance deadening effect, and with very slick azimuth adjustment facility. Glad to see you again buddy!!!!! Hope you are doing great!!! Warmest Regards, ~ ian.
Shawn Innes Dear fellow Brother in-Vinyl👋😄, Thank you for your kind words and support. I really appreciate it. Am having lunch now as i receive your message. Thank you my friend. May you have fun and lots of joy with your vinyl'ing friends around you for years to come🤗!!! Warmest Regards, ian.
Thank you. I will be setting up my Marantz TT 15 turntable over the next few days. I need a few more accessories it looks like, but thank goodness for helpful videos like yours. Cheers.
Dear Friend!!! OOOooooh I WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU ON MAKING THIS COMMITMENT TO LEARN AND EXECUTE THE STEPS YOURSELF!!!!! Bravo! Salute to you!!!! Gung-ho you are :-D Enjoy your TT15 to no end too !!! What a beautiful table it is!
Dearest Brother Tone, 🤗🤗🤗have you gotten your new place? Hope your record collection is intact and safe....free from Termites as had infested in Tharbamar's huge collection. (Tharbamar is a TH-cam channel, creator himself lost his collection to termites while in the midst of shifting and....) I wish you health and smooth and easy business in daily correspondences and work. Moko had just had her TPLO operation on her right hind leg yesterday by Dr Patrick Maguire, and I am nursing her now. Wifey as well. We're all with her. Warmest Regards to you and wifey and have a great Summer🏡🌞🌈🎶🎵🎶🎶☕
Brother Ian!... good good news! I have gotten my new place and my lovely collection is back in my possession, and out of my friend Lina’s house! I’m jazzed!
@@TONEScott OHWOWWOWWWOWWWW 😄👍👍👍👍👍👍YES!!!! Your records are freed at last!!!! Congratulations Brother Tone for getting everything settled, and ready to rock and roll again!!!!!!! 🏡YEA!!! GET IN!!!!😍🎶🎵🎶🎶🎶
Dear Buddy Greg...thank you for coming by, taking time out to write to me and catching up :-D!!! May you have a restful and lovely Sunday with some great vinyl analogue music too!...i am listening to some Bossa Nova now on my Sunday evening here through my SL1200mk5+MP110+Mani... of course my furkid Moko is besides me as I write to you.
+James McDonald What can I say? I am just very, very happy for you (a fellow vinyl lover and user)!!! :-D Happy playing your vinyl records and enjoying all the beauty and magic that comes through. Sincerely, Ian.
Wayne M Cheek II hope we all enjoy our vinyl music, make new friends, cross cultures, build peace, all join hands...one by one.🤗 Student i am forever!!! Enjoy your journey dear brother Wayne!!!😄🖑 - ian.
Brother in-Vinyl :-D , thank you!! Have good practical fun with your turntable and helping friends around you too!! Heehee... i know you can do it very, very well!!! Best Regards, ~ian
Thank you for your support and encouragement! Took a lot of time on this and i am glad i can piece them up for all of you my dearest vinyl friends!!!! Do have a great journey yourself too brother!!! Thank you for coming by yet again. Grateful again to you and the friendship! - ian :-D
thank you for your kind worlds brother . just about to replace the cartridge for the 1st time ever :D . your vid came handy . i watched a tons of vids all around but most of them useless. thanks again. keep up the good work and take some anti radiation pills if u go to japan especially tokyo . god bless
Thank you my friend... we just keep on doing our own good work to energize one another's vinyl love and passion okay? :-D I am really grateful for your kind words...taking time out in doing so... Thank you Jack :-)
+Neil Wootton Dear Mr Wootton, thank you for your kind comments and encouragement... no maestro... I am just a normal vinylaudiophile like you. Wife and I say hi again to you Brother!!! :-D Have a good day and best regards to your family too!! Ian :-)
Hello Ian, I have been in turntable since 1990s and today you are my teacher! Thank you so much for your all out knowledge and especially your time. Roy , Singapore
toho45 Dear Buddy👋😄!!!! We learn and enjoy analogue bliss together. Let's go. More analogue years!!!!! Chat up if we bump into each other in Adelphi/record stores🤗💪!! See you bro!
Dear Brother Paolo, thank you for your time!!...and i have to say this:May The Force be with You :-D !!! Analogue bliss, we savour!!! Best Regards!!! See you anytime. ~ ian.
Ian, bowled over by the enthusiasm, detail, rational analysis, honesty and accuracy of your reviews. Not posted on TH-cam before but so taken by your terrific contributions to more affordable 'audiophile' ambitions. Despite the obvious difficulties of video reviews that, inevitably, depend on the music reproduction at the viewers end, you've got closer to allowing me to hear and experience differences between components than any other youtube attempt. When done so well, you show that reviews like yours can be much more helpful than magazine reviews. If I were an editor for an audiophile magazine, I'd snap you up in an instant. On top of everything else, you're a terrific character and entertaining. But enough of this praise! I'm now looking to buy a Shiit Mani and, thinking about the MP150 (instead of my previous ambition of a Hana EL!). BTW, if you can comment, I have a goldring 1042 on a modified technics sl1200 (audio origami modified rega rb250 tonearm). Was wondering where you think the 1042 would sit compared to the likes of the MP150? I've always an eye on budget friendly and 'out of the box' solutions, so would appreciate any thoughts you may have. all the best Chris, London.
CJ M Dear Buddy Chris from London🦁🦁🦁🇬🇧 thank you for your kindness and encouragement!!! I am very touched and humbled by your words.... I love the GR1006 and, their previous carts Elan and Elektra. I have yet to purchase the very famous 1042💪😄...and can't wait to get at that as soon as possible. Thank you for your great input, because your message lenda even more credence and importance to the 1042. It will be lined up against the MP-500, 2M Black, etc👋😄... in the meantime, i will purchase a very worthy competitor to the Rega Planar3 at the same $1,000 price point: the MoFi StudioDeck. I need to finish the MP-200 review. There is also the need to work on the shoot-out and reviews of the latest Grado Prestige Black2 and Goldring E1 at the $80 price range😄🎵🎶. Thank you for your time for reading these. Hope to give you some excitement and insight into my schedules. Warmest Regards my friend, heard yesterday from my friend in Norwich that the weather is about 15-18degC🌞and with sun! Enjoy a good spring time Buddy!
+Jelo Berbano Alright Jelo!!!! Have a great time!!!! :-D Glad to hear from you again Brother Jelo!!! See you in a few weeks' time in Singapore!!! So excited and glad to finally catch up with you and shake your hands!!! Sincerely, Ian :-)
Hi Ian, I really like your youtube videos, your enthusiasm is contagious. I have now looked at most of them. Thanks. And last but not least a big thank you for recommending Doug MacLeod "There's a Tme" amazing, did not even know that record existed. Keep the good work coming. Roger Sweden
Ian, thank you for the recommendation on The Planar 1! I picked one up and am truly happy with it. Glad I updated the table first before anything else - with break-in the Carbon is turning out to be impressive.
Charlee e Dear fellow vinyl'ing friend, thank you for your message and i wish you the best years ahead with your vinyl music listening!!😄🖑 Sincerely, ian.
Thank you. Very informative. I had a good grip on most of it but I recently bought a turntable with VTA on the fly and have been afraid to play around with it. With the lighter vinyl and the 180 gram stuff. I know you can buy yet another device for ridiculous money but your little trick with the paper with lines on it is brilliant. I also just got a hana mc cartridge and have watched you compare with another model. You make great videos. Keep it up, you have my interest as I want the best sound that I can attain.
Dear Buddy Allen :-D !!! Thank you for coming by and taking time talking to me! Wow congratulations on your new turntable acquisition!!! Play around with it!! Go ahead my friend!!! All of us will go through this simple "rite of passage", nervous at first of course, but after toying around and perhaps even making a few mistakes, we learn :-D ...and wow! An expensive Hana MC cartridge you have! You have big budget my friend!!! Hehheh :-D!!! I am very happy to have helped! Please have fun with the VTA and tracking force and anti-skating adjustments, perhaps with a cheap cartridge first! Warmest Regards my friend, ~ ian.
Thank you fellow friend-in-Vinyl for your support and encouragement too. This is for all of us. My wife supports my time commitment to do these to serve the vinyl community. I am really having a lot of fun too!!! Nice to make mistakes too in the past and learn along!
Thank you my friend!!! :-) Happy to see you again... thank you for your amazing support. I'm humbled by all you friends' support. I hope to do more to serve... while I'm still alive :-) I'll continue to do my best. Again, Thank You. :-)
Hahahahaha.....................a laugh is a good start before experiencing a new world of emotions . Remember that to learn the truth one must unlearn first ...........waking up out of the virtual illusion to reality ............analog ,witch vinyl is part of , vibrates with real life and the universe ............ALL is vibration and harmony starts when vibrations sing together .................so is love and joy ....................
I found your channel recently and i like the way you share your passion and knowledge with people who love music . So I decided to share mine also...............cartridges, vinyl and electronics are "TOOLS" to serve music .............some focus on the tools and they still want to have instead of want to be ................You don't , you share so you Are ....( and people like you ) Thank you for your gentle and friendly reply. I Wish you and your family a very happy new-year. Greatings from Belgium .
Thank you friend-in-Vinyl :-) !! I am grateful for your kindest comments... We will continue learning together!.. Really love our great Vinylsphere :-D Best Regards, Ian.
+lz2k7 Thank you brother :-D for your support and encouragement yet again... I cherish your feedback... a friend I know for more than a year! How time flies! See you brother... please take care and we'd be spinning for many more, happy years... My best regards to you.
Thank you Sir :-D ! Best Regards for the new Year 2017... have a joyous and peaceful new year ahead with family and vinyl-spinning friends!!! Sincerely, - ian.
Dear fellow brother-in-Vinyl :-D, do enjoy your wonderful vinyl journey ahead!!! Wish you best of fun and best of music, and best of friends around you!!! Warmest Regards, ian :-)
A conundrum with my VPI HRX suggested not to use anti skate. I set it up anyway using an old laser disc. Still skates but nothing like it used to. Tone arm is 3d printed carbon fibre 12 inches in length with slight conical taper just to make things more difficult for you. Tone arm pivot also has VTA built in so you can adjust on the fly if needed. Platter and table are perfectly level. Spiked jack screws were installed in the table legs. Spot on!
Thank you Brother :-) !!.. I really want to do my best...to the best of my ability. I am still learning together with fellow friends too :-) Let us engage more and more vinyl friends around us...it's my fervent wish and hope our vinylsphere grows steadily and with the fuzzy warmth amongst us friends all over the world.
Hi Martin! I'm very glad my efforts have paid off and been of help to you... just very glad... hope you have fun along the way too! Breathe easy and carry out the steps light-heartedly and have fun :-D !! We all learn together, and help one another in the vinyl community. Best Regards Martin!!! :-D from Ian.
Dear Brother Paul, thank you again for your kindest comments and encouragement! :-D really happy to hear your nod of approval... thank you brother!!! Awaiting the useful, informative and heart-to-heart talks in your next videos... i am salivating. Best Regards, Ian.
Keep the vinyl dream alive! :) Just discovered your channel a few days ago. Very informative, friendly and thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you (my hitherto unknown friend)!
Dear Fellow Brother-in-Vinyl!!! You have a very cute channel name!! 33.333!!! I hope you find joy continuously in this hobby and have lovely like-minded friends around you accompanying you on the journey. Best Regards to your community too :-D !!! Hope to see your videos soon my friend! ~ian.
My TT is a Technics SL 1900 set up perfectly with a Nagaoke mp 110. Sounds absolutely amazing. Phono pre amp is Tisbury Domino. AE EVO speakers and concertmeister Baso isolation feet on TT and speakers. Concertmeister baso instead of spikes is an amazing tweak. I keep looking at expensive turntables but I'm worried that the expense of going modern would be dissappointing. My old well set up system beats the pants of my mates modern big name set up. Proof that good setup is very important. Great video again.
Hehheh!!!! YES!! GOOD set-up is so super important as you have realized!!!!and so kindly written down your testimonial :-D !!!!!here for other friends to see and learn from! Thank you Buddy Tony!!
+John Bellamy Thank you John for your kind encouragement! Happy to see you again!! :-D Thank you for coming by and being a supportive friend!!! Have a good week ahead and may you have good peaceful evenings at home listening to records :-) Sincerely, Ian.
Thank you for the awesome tutorial on how to setup a turntable. I'll use this video to guide me on how to setup my SL-1200MK3 that's coming in from Japan! Had to get a step down transformer due to the voltage difference in the US but luckily I was able to find a Japanese made Sugano Electric Laboratory SU-1500 that should work well. I hope that the transformer doesn't interfere with the audio.
excellent video, must get myself a spirit level, is there another way of checking anti-skate?, I seen a video on youtube, where a DJ guy uses a smooth record and adjusts the arms to stand still, wonder what you think of this method, Thanks
Absolutely amazing video, your way of explanation is simply perfect and clear. You have a real passion for the world of vinyl and turntables, it's a pleasure to listen to and watch your videos. N.1
Thank you dear Buddy :-D it is equally my joy to serve you friends and be of help as best as i can. Really happy to be in this warm vinyl community of friends :-D!!!! Warmest Regards and may you and your family be well and happy! Keep on spinning and listening! Enjoy your beautiful sounds and music at home!!! ~ ian.
Dear Buddy😄...thank you...I'm just doing my best. I'm sure you know about this subject matter more than me either now, or very soon!!! Let's play vinyl and enjoy our common vinyl analogue bliss.
HiViNyws channel Honestly I’m an absolute beginner in the vinyl world 😉 and your videos have been more than helpful. Keep up the great work. Cheers from France
@@dragui9932 Buddy....please take your time and enjoy your vinyl journey🤗 don't rush anything. My older vinyl friend always tell me that. Take your time. Enjoy the journey.😄👍✌✌🎶🎶
Thank you brother. Really enjoy this and learned a lot. Appreciate your generosity in making this very carefully thought out video for us. I may not have all the tools you have yet for this but the principles are very well conveyed to where I can do my best with what I have. Planning on taking the vinyl plunge at the end of next week with either a Pro-Ject 2xpression (Sumiko Bluepoint 2) or a Rega RP6 (Exact). Getting very exited.
I am leaning pretty strongly toward the Pro-ject 2xperience. From what I can tell the cartridge that comes with it will be better than the Rega. Also has full adjustability unlike the Rega which does not have VTA/SRA or azimuth adjustability from what I understand. I know there can be advantages to not having them. I do respect the Rega and think I would like it as well so tough decision. Impossible to really tell which sounds better by reading on line. The 2xperience has a real walnut matte veneer. It would eventually make its way into our living room system (2nd system) where it would be a perfect match for a pair of excellent vintage ADS L520 speakers that also have a beautiful real matte walnut veneer of same color. I do not think I can go wrong either way as they should both give a very good entry level experience with vinyl. Also plan to get the Schiit Mani to start with. Want to keep learning and hopefully do some listening before a substantial phonostage upgrade to something that is better and a good fit. Plan to purchase late next week. Will let you know how it turns out. Your a blessing bro!
I am not sure this is the right location to post this, but here goes anyway. This is a review and setup of Nagaoka MP300 cartridge. My cats laid waste of the turntable with tone arm off pivot. Nothing was damaged but I had to realign the whole system. Cartridge was the Kiseki Purple Heart which fortunately had the stylus guard installed. As the Kiseki does not have a replaceable stylus I shopped for something that would sound nearly as good. After 6 months I decided tonight was time for the Nagaoka. My phonostage is a Manley Chinook which required a gain change from 60 to 45db of gain. Manley recommends adding cable capacitance of 90pf for 1m lead and select a capacitance dip that will get you to a desired 120pf or so, 50pf was my closest choice. MP300 was aligned and balanced to 1.53g. Cartridge sounded bright so the added capacitance was removed. Bottom end coupled right in. Played Pink Floyds' Question of Balance. Something was wrong even though sound was balanced and uniform but the sound stage did not feel correct. Sounded like a phase issue. Wiring was per instructions so I reversed the cartridge connection on each channel. BINGO!!! Everything fell into place with a proper soundstage rendering. I think we have a psycho-acoustic thing going on here. The ATTACK sound should come at you, not recede. One other reviewer noticed the same thing with this cartridge. I put Diana Krall "I Dream of You" album on and all was perfection. I fell back in love with the sound and Diana. Hope this helps some of you to fine tune your listening experience. My review of the Nagaoka MP300 is a resounding A1+.
Extremely good video. I'll definitely look out for the other videos explaining the steps in more detail. My RP8 spins at 33.6RPM.... oooooh nail-biting stuff! One thing I need to ask - please can you display the captions on your videos for a few seconds longer, to give me time to bring up the pause button and press it before the caption disappears? Thanks.
Hi - great setup on the Avid turntable, but I noticed at 2:45 your platter is not quite flat and appears a bit warped. Perhaps a manufacturing defect? But all vinyl isn't flat anyways, probably completely inaudible... Please keep the great videos coming... I really enjoy them here in the States! Best...
Hi Buddy! How are you👋😄!! The platter is spot on flat, machined aluminium. The only issue then was that i had actually accidentally bumped on the platter quite hard during all the filming, and dented slightly the inverted bearing casework. It is an extremely small dent. I had my local Avid great retailer came over to just fit on the highly modular and replaceable case and sapphire bearing within 30minutes and everything was back to perfect since two years ago. Sammy and Eugene are a Father and Son-in-law team that retails Avid in Singapore. They have close contact with Conrad Mas of Avid UK and service thoroughness and response time is top notch from all of them💪😄👍!!! You can see Sammy and Eugene in my latest video where I picked up the Goldring 1042 cartridge! Their store is called Sound Decisions and have been around for more than 20 years.
Great that you got the platter repaired! I'll look for them in your Goldring 1042 video. Again keep the video's coming! I'd like to see you discuss your opinion on your Technics turntable (or perhaps you have already and I just haven't seen it). Take care...
Thank You.....another nice video my friend...despite the current political and economic crise we are facing in Brazil I use to reserve a time to listen to some music to relax a little....I guess you are using a mat in your Technics produced by Herbie Audio LAbs.....this guy makes wonderful parts...I liked everyone I tested in my system
+hbaboris Dear Friend.....stay strong... ...yes, the Herbie Audio Labs' :-) mat. Thank you for sharing your findings of their products & parts!! Be well with your family and friends. Best Regards, ian.
Ian, do you tape down the platter even when using the dr. feickert protractor? The instructions that come with the protractor seem to indicate that you shouldn't....but it's difficult to say. Thank you for all you do for the vinyl community
Hi Brother🤗!! Thank you for catching up here! May I share this with you...👋🛑 Taping down the platter is to prevent unnecessary and accidental shifting of the platter during alignment...coz accidental shifting may cause accidental bumping of the stylus against the other parts of the tracking force gauge, etc any apparatus that is used during cartridge alignment. Accidents had happened in my own experience before and I had learnt from my mistakes and hence i am very adamant and passionate about taping down the platter before any other steps requiring the stylus touching things here and there✌🛑... Let me know if you have other queries my friend. 🤗
Hey Ian, I have an Empire 598 I purchased two years ago and added a Denon 103R to it last year. Using it yesterday to digitize my vinyl for VC videos I'm making, I found the audio balance far off (louder on the left side by almost 6db). To think, the past year I've been listening to like this! I'm taking the guess work out of setting turntables up the right way. I'm watching your videos and I just bought Michael Fremer's latest DVD (21st Century Vinyl). Thanks for the work you do; while it's a bit overwhelming for me, it would be even more so if it weren't for tutorials like this. Now I just need to practice, practice, practice. :) Thank you VC brother! -Brad
Dear friend!... congrats and happy practising!!! Practising, practising, practising!!.. it gets so easy after a few times... you will learn fast!!! Best regards my friend! ~ ian.
Hello Ian!, This is Mark from Canada! This is a fantastic video! A must see for everyone who owns a turntable. There so many things I've learned from this video...I thank you very much for this my friend. I hope you don't mind but I would like to share it on my Projekt Gemineye Facebook group. Lots of people who I know own turntables but may not know some of this important information. Let me know if you are ok with me doing this. Take care and I hope all is well with you and your family. Mark Anthony K Projekt Gemineye
Mark Kopernicky Dearest Mark🤗, information is free on the net...use it as you deem fit my brother!... and you are one of my best buddies💪💪🤗🤗🤗🤗!!! Certainly you are more than welcomed! I hope it can help more vinyl friends out there to learn the basic skills and henceforth go on to enjoy really superb vinyl analog music oozing from their speakers😄✌! Projekt Gemineye rocks🎸🎸🎶💪✌
Dear Buddy :-D thank you for catching up again ever so often... I am sorry for my late reply to your kind reply here. So how has your journey so far :-D>...getting the Rega P6 soon i guess!!!
@@HiViNywschannel Hi, thanks for the reply! I decided I like the look of the Linn Sondek (*the* turntable to have from my youth)! But of course that means a) $$$ and b) figuring out the options. I've put the turntable on the back burner for now. If I'm thinking completely clearly then yes, I probably will end up with a P6 (or 8 or ...?) but for now I'm keeping the Linn flame alive! Keep producing your great content!
Heyhey!!! You are going to keep the Linn flame alive!!! Good!! Good!!! to pursue a dream since your youth!!! I understand what that means!!! If you really love something, and you purchase something else... you would always keep going back and thinking about that "love" and , eventually lose money as you would not like the other one that you bought. Better to hold your finances and go all out for that thing that you MUST own :-D!!! I wish you all the very smoothness in your journey!!! Thank you for replying so fast my friend!!!
Hi Buddy great to see you again👋😄!! Yes indeed!!!! VTA adjustability is very useful to have!! And of course, the top dog turntable to have be it used or new, under US$1k, is a used SL1200Mk3/3D/5💪😄🎶🎵🎶🎶🎶!!! Best Regards my friend!!!!!! I wish you all the best in procuring one lovely unit!!✌😄✌
Very, very helpful video! Thank you so much for going through all of this effort to help us! :) Altough I have to say that the audio could be a bit better, English is not my first language so the "popping" sounds in the audio sometimes made certain words a bit hard to understand. Aside from that, this has to be the most detailed video I have seen on youtube in how to set up a turntable PROFESSIONALLY! You have just earned yourself a new subscriber!
:-D Thank you Jonathan... i am doing this just for the sake of helping the vinyl community. I want to commit my energies to it because of the many wonderful friends who have helped me before and whom I have known...ALL KIND AND WARM TO BE WITH!!! I love the Vinyl ecosphere!!!! :-D We walk along and help more to be engaged in this most wonderful form of music appreciation. Best Regards to you and your family & friends! - ian.
Dear Buddy :-D thank you too for your time coming by and catching up! The Testing LP can be purchased in some local record stores, or online. I do know that musicdirect sells it :-D... i am sure you can find it quite easily. I hope so for you buddy! ~ ian.
@@HiViNywschannel I am well Ian thank you, good to know you are also. Things have moved along a little with my system since we last chatted. I went for an Ortofon 2M Black cartridge for my Transcriptors Hydraulic/SME, initially I thought it sounded a little brittle but after fettling and running in all I can say is WOW. As I type this I am awaiting delivery of a new Michell Gyrodec, the great, great, great, great grandson of the Transcriptor's, oh happy day when they are sitting next to each other :). I will use the HRS100mcs arm off my Alphason Sonata, it only had about 200 hours use before the Sonata's PS went to Valhalla, crafty pun there ;).
Thank you for such wonderful information ! You are truly a gem of a human being ! Question... What do you think of the Yamaha TT-S303 ?! Does the phono preamp within the turntable affect the audio quality? I want to pair it with a Nagaoka for mostly Jazz... Im a huge Yamy fan and am a huge fan of their natural sound reproduction. Let me know your thoughts!?!? Please and Thank You !
Hivi, appreciate all your time and effort when reviewing cartridges and tutorials. In a bit of a bind making a decision when attempting to replace stylus on Grado F-1+. Can you recommend a compatible replacement? This will be set on Pioneer LP-530.
Hey Ian, I know you said it somewhere; but I'm not able to find your answer - what software do you use to find the stylus rake angle? Also, do you have a USB microscope you would recommend? Thanks! Hope you're doing well brother! -Brad
Hi friend. I was wondering what you thought of the Technics overhang gauge. I use it for my 1200 and it sounds great to me and is a lot quicker than the trial and error of a protractor. I'm wondering if you use it for your Technic?
0:46 Step 1: Distance between spindle to pivot
2:21 Step 2: Levelling the platter
3:37 Step 3: Cartridge fit-on
5:24 Step 4: Platter tape-down
5:42 Step 5: Stylus tracking force
6:22 Step 6: Overhang
9:07 Step 7: Azimuth
11:09 Step 8: Anti-skating
11:51 Step 9: VTA/SRA
13:25 Step 10: Check force
14:18 Step 11: Platter speed
Dearest Buddy :-D THANK YOU so much for putting it for me!!!!
I am going to pin this up!!!!
Warmest Regards to you and all your vinyl playing buddies in your own ecosphere!!!
We catch up, anytime.
THankful and grateful to you,
~ ian.
Hi,
i hv seen yr videos since a long time n i find it tremendously informative,thank you.
my question: i m not sure how to contact u, so my first try.
question: hv u heard the Hana ML n Ortofon Cadenza Red?
which would u prefer for Rega P6?
hope to reach u, thank you
with best wishes
Jin Goh
e-mail: jin.goh@gmx.de
I dont mean to be off topic but does someone know a method to get back into an instagram account?
I somehow forgot my account password. I appreciate any tips you can offer me
@Dayton Lennon instablaster =)
@Alijah Adonis thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site on google and Im in the hacking process now.
Takes a while so I will reply here later with my results.
Very happy that the best set up video in all of TH-cam is made by a singaporean.
i am so overwhelmed from watching your videos. so much knowledge to consume
Dear Fellow Friend-in-Vinyl,
Take your time to learn along, i went through the process as well... could look quite daunting but once you do it hands on, ... sweet! The feeling's great :-D
Best Regards, and may you have many wondrous years of vinyl music appreciation ahead,
- ian.
How is this not getting more attention! It's the gold standard. There are great channels out there, but this is a step above!
Dear Buddy David, thank you for coming by and catching up👋😊!!! Hope you have a beautiful and rewarding vinyl'ing journey ahead😄🎶🎵🎶🎶! Thank you for your kind words and support!! Have fun!
Very nice and friendly video 👌. Thanks for sharing it ...
Thank you Buddy Javier for coming by to share with me too🤗🙏🤗
Mounting that first cartridge is like a rite of passage. it will not be fast or easy but it feels so good when you finally get it right. And no matter how experienced you are you can always use a refresher.
Dear Buddy...yes.... 🙏😄👌very true.... wow. Well said! First cart aligned, like a rite of passage. And subsequent ones, always lovely refreshers!!!!
Awesome explanation of phono and cartridge setup. Thank you!
Great. Video. Thanks so much. Just upgraded to Jelco 850s with Nagoaka MP110 with a MP200 stylus.. Love ya and your videos.
Dear Buddy :-D !!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D Congratulations!!! Hahaha!!!... well done!!!!!
Wishing you great times ahead in Connecticut with your vinyl buddies like Paneeks1960 (Rob) from Boston!!!
Thank you Ian for sharing your passion and knowledge in such detail. You are the man!
Alvaro From Earth Dear Brother🤗thank you!! I hope the mnemonics provided is helpful: DeLiCious Party Food Or A Steak VouCher For Six 👋😄👌!! Brother i am thankful to see you again.
I'm learning so much from your uploads, thank you for sharing your knowledge. Your enthusiasm is infectious! Huge appreciation.
Dear Buddy :-D do help yourself to the information. I received many life's learnings and happiness, thanks to lovely friends made by virtue of our common love of vinyl analogue music appreciation. I want to give back. Warmest Regards buddy, and do catch Paul from Texas: "barakapdub" channel, he runs superb Tales of the Deadwax and many vinyl pressings information. :-D Thank you for your time and friendship. See you buddy! ~ ian
That information regarding azimuth is something I feel is grossly overlooked. Many people know about tracking and antiskate, but azimuth is rarely mentioned. Thanks for these helpful guides and hints.
Hi buddy!!! Yes thank you :-D ...on all my cartridge reviews, i do align the azimuth correctly as for each cartridge. The Jelco HS-25 headshells are really top value for money, i had noticed, and have been using: lightweight, magnesium-body for resonance deadening effect, and with very slick azimuth adjustment facility. Glad to see you again buddy!!!!! Hope you are doing great!!!
Warmest Regards,
~ ian.
Thank you for this very detailed video. 👍love your content, very informative.
This was Excellent! Short, Very Informative, and to the point, with a funny acronym. Nice collection of gear.
Thank you
Shawn Innes Dear fellow Brother in-Vinyl👋😄,
Thank you for your kind words and support. I really appreciate it. Am having lunch now as i receive your message. Thank you my friend. May you have fun and lots of joy with your vinyl'ing friends around you for years to come🤗!!!
Warmest Regards,
ian.
You make very helpful, clear videos. Please keep up the good work! I have just purchased a Rega Planar 2 and I'm happy to have vinyl back in my life!
Thank you. I will be setting up my Marantz TT 15 turntable over the next few days. I need a few more accessories it looks like, but thank goodness for helpful videos like yours. Cheers.
Dear Friend!!! OOOooooh I WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU ON MAKING THIS COMMITMENT TO LEARN AND EXECUTE THE STEPS YOURSELF!!!!! Bravo! Salute to you!!!! Gung-ho you are :-D
Enjoy your TT15 to no end too !!! What a beautiful table it is!
Excellent video Ian. Clear, precise and above all holds ones interest.
+Derek Woolston Thank you Derek :-D for your comments here...
Really appreciate them...
:-)
Have a good Sunday morning tea!
Another fantastic video... what else?... that's just what you do... fantastic videos
Dearest Brother Tone, 🤗🤗🤗have you gotten your new place? Hope your record collection is intact and safe....free from Termites as had infested in Tharbamar's huge collection. (Tharbamar is a TH-cam channel, creator himself lost his collection to termites while in the midst of shifting and....) I wish you health and smooth and easy business in daily correspondences and work. Moko had just had her TPLO operation on her right hind leg yesterday by Dr Patrick Maguire, and I am nursing her now. Wifey as well. We're all with her.
Warmest Regards to you and wifey and have a great Summer🏡🌞🌈🎶🎵🎶🎶☕
Brother Ian!... good good news! I have gotten my new place and my lovely collection is back in my possession, and out of my friend Lina’s house! I’m jazzed!
@@TONEScott OHWOWWOWWWOWWWW 😄👍👍👍👍👍👍YES!!!! Your records are freed at last!!!! Congratulations Brother Tone for getting everything settled, and ready to rock and roll again!!!!!!! 🏡YEA!!! GET IN!!!!😍🎶🎵🎶🎶🎶
I don't know anybody else on youtube who is as detailed in their explanation of information on youtube
Dear Buddy Greg...thank you for coming by, taking time out to write to me and catching up :-D!!! May you have a restful and lovely Sunday with some great vinyl analogue music too!...i am listening to some Bossa Nova now on my Sunday evening here through my SL1200mk5+MP110+Mani... of course my furkid Moko is besides me as I write to you.
very enthusiastic video 👍👍👍
Thank you Buddy 💪🤗🙌
@@HiViNywschannel No my friend ! Thank YOU 👍🤝
i just learn how to set my old turntable up findly the right way ...thank you
rogue warr Dear Friend,
💪👍✌
Warmest Regards on this Sunday!!!😄 Thank you for sharing with us your success and joy my friend.
- ian
Great video. I made some adjustments to my set-up as I watched this and there was a real improvement! Thanks!
+James McDonald What can I say? I am just very, very happy for you (a fellow vinyl lover and user)!!! :-D Happy playing your vinyl records and enjoying all the beauty and magic that comes through.
Sincerely,
Ian.
Such a informative channel for Vinyl Not seeing you for long time.
I'm slowly but surely upgrading
my vinyl collection.
Dear friend, have a good weekend with your vinyl records listening! :-D
He is a TRUE audiophile....
Wayne M Cheek II hope we all enjoy our vinyl music, make new friends, cross cultures, build peace, all join hands...one by one.🤗
Student i am forever!!!
Enjoy your journey dear brother Wayne!!!😄🖑
- ian.
Wayne M Cheek II he is the master we are all masters we are all buddha.
Thank you !! Informative and usable for the "common" man !
Brother in-Vinyl :-D , thank you!! Have good practical fun with your turntable and helping friends around you too!! Heehee... i know you can do it very, very well!!! Best Regards, ~ian
Amazing and very helpful video ❤️
one of the best vid regarding tt set up on the tube thank you
Thank you for your support and encouragement! Took a lot of time on this and i am glad i can piece them up for all of you my dearest vinyl friends!!!!
Do have a great journey yourself too brother!!!
Thank you for coming by yet again. Grateful again to you and the friendship!
- ian :-D
thank you for your kind worlds brother . just about to replace the cartridge for the 1st time ever :D .
your vid came handy . i watched a tons of vids all around but most of them useless. thanks again. keep up the good work and take some anti radiation pills if u go to japan especially tokyo . god bless
Roger my friend :-D... yes...i do take them ;-)
Just want to add my thanks for this very clear and informative video. Keep up the good work!
Thank you my friend... we just keep on doing our own good work to energize one another's vinyl love and passion okay? :-D
I am really grateful for your kind words...taking time out in doing so...
Thank you Jack :-)
The maestro at work again! fantastic, informative video. Many thanks.
+Neil Wootton Dear Mr Wootton, thank you for your kind comments and encouragement... no maestro... I am just a normal vinylaudiophile like you.
Wife and I say hi again to you Brother!!! :-D
Have a good day and best regards to your family too!!
Ian :-)
Hello Ian, I have been in turntable since 1990s and today you are my teacher! Thank you so much for your all out knowledge and especially your time. Roy , Singapore
toho45 Dear Buddy👋😄!!!! We learn and enjoy analogue bliss together. Let's go. More analogue years!!!!! Chat up if we bump into each other in Adelphi/record stores🤗💪!! See you bro!
EXCELLENCE, is all I can say. Thank you!!!
Thank you yet again my friend for coming by🤗🤗🤗...have a good weekend with some vinyl music at home! Cheers cheers🎵🎶😀
great video. straight to the point and extremely helpful. excellent work and thanks very much for sharing your expertise
Dear Brother Paolo, thank you for your time!!...and i have to say this:May The Force be with You :-D !!! Analogue bliss, we savour!!!
Best Regards!!!
See you anytime. ~ ian.
Ian, bowled over by the enthusiasm, detail, rational analysis, honesty and accuracy of your reviews. Not posted on TH-cam before but so taken by your terrific contributions to more affordable 'audiophile' ambitions. Despite the obvious difficulties of video reviews that, inevitably, depend on the music reproduction at the viewers end, you've got closer to allowing me to hear and experience differences between components than any other youtube attempt. When done so well, you show that reviews like yours can be much more helpful than magazine reviews. If I were an editor for an audiophile magazine, I'd snap you up in an instant. On top of everything else, you're a terrific character and entertaining.
But enough of this praise! I'm now looking to buy a Shiit Mani and, thinking about the MP150 (instead of my previous ambition of a Hana EL!). BTW, if you can comment, I have a goldring 1042 on a modified technics sl1200 (audio origami modified rega rb250 tonearm). Was wondering where you think the 1042 would sit compared to the likes of the MP150? I've always an eye on budget friendly and 'out of the box' solutions, so would appreciate any thoughts you may have. all the best Chris, London.
CJ M Dear Buddy Chris from London🦁🦁🦁🇬🇧 thank you for your kindness and encouragement!!! I am very touched and humbled by your words....
I love the GR1006 and, their previous carts Elan and Elektra. I have yet to purchase the very famous 1042💪😄...and can't wait to get at that as soon as possible. Thank you for your great input, because your message lenda even more credence and importance to the 1042. It will be lined up against the MP-500, 2M Black, etc👋😄... in the meantime, i will purchase a very worthy competitor to the Rega Planar3 at the same $1,000 price point: the MoFi StudioDeck. I need to finish the MP-200 review. There is also the need to work on the shoot-out and reviews of the latest Grado Prestige Black2 and Goldring E1 at the $80 price range😄🎵🎶. Thank you for your time for reading these. Hope to give you some excitement and insight into my schedules.
Warmest Regards my friend, heard yesterday from my friend in Norwich that the weather is about 15-18degC🌞and with sun! Enjoy a good spring time Buddy!
You are great! I love these videos!
Thank you fellow friend in-vinyl!!! :- D
Enjoy your great journey!!!
Best Regards,
Ian.
What a fantastic video, Ian. Great job.
+dixielandfarm Thank you Brother Chris! :-D :-D expecting your next video and sharing very soon too!!!
Perfect timing for this video Ian, as I have just bought the pioneer PLX-1000 last weekend, and now happily setting it up.. Good times!!
+Jelo Berbano Alright Jelo!!!! Have a great time!!!! :-D Glad to hear from you again Brother Jelo!!! See you in a few weeks' time in Singapore!!! So excited and glad to finally catch up with you and shake your hands!!!
Sincerely,
Ian :-)
Yes, very excited as well! See you soon my friend!
+Jelo Berbano Alright!!!
Excellent work
Thank you my friend :-D yet again.
Hi Ian, I really like your youtube videos, your enthusiasm is contagious. I have now looked at most of them. Thanks. And last but not least a big thank you for recommending Doug MacLeod "There's a Tme" amazing, did not even know that record existed. Keep the good work coming. Roger Sweden
Amazing! Thank you very much for detailed and useful tutorial
Diego Barros Thank you fellow Vinyl-brother Diego!
Diego Barros ...and yes, not forgetting: may you have many Happy Years ahead of music enjoyment! :-D
Ian, thank you for the recommendation on The Planar 1! I picked one up and am truly happy with it. Glad I updated the table first before anything else - with break-in the Carbon is turning out to be impressive.
Nick Long Yes i am still keeping my P1 💪😄🎶🎶!!!... hahaha so what is the next update to come for your system?🤗
Your channel has been very helpful. Thank you!
Charlee e Dear fellow vinyl'ing friend, thank you for your message and i wish you the best years ahead with your vinyl music listening!!😄🖑
Sincerely,
ian.
I like your style.
Thank you. Very informative. I had a good grip on most of it but I recently bought a turntable with VTA on the fly and have been afraid to play around with it. With the lighter vinyl and the 180 gram stuff. I know you can buy yet another device for ridiculous money but your little trick with the paper with lines on it is brilliant. I also just got a hana mc cartridge and have watched you compare with another model. You make great videos. Keep it up, you have my interest as I want the best sound that I can attain.
Dear Buddy Allen :-D !!! Thank you for coming by and taking time talking to me! Wow congratulations on your new turntable acquisition!!! Play around with it!! Go ahead my friend!!! All of us will go through this simple "rite of passage", nervous at first of course, but after toying around and perhaps even making a few mistakes, we learn :-D ...and wow! An expensive Hana MC cartridge you have! You have big budget my friend!!! Hehheh :-D!!! I am very happy to have helped! Please have fun with the VTA and tracking force and anti-skating adjustments, perhaps with a cheap cartridge first! Warmest Regards my friend,
~ ian.
Thank you for your great video!!!
Thank you fellow friend-in-Vinyl for your support and encouragement too. This is for all of us. My wife supports my time commitment to do these to serve the vinyl community. I am really having a lot of fun too!!! Nice to make mistakes too in the past and learn along!
great video ian..clear information and fun presentation..
Thank you my friend!!! :-) Happy to see you again... thank you for your amazing support. I'm humbled by all you friends' support. I hope to do more to serve... while I'm still alive :-)
I'll continue to do my best.
Again,
Thank You.
:-)
very nice demo presentation. Thanks for the video....
Dear Brother , thank you for catching up. We enjoy our Vinyl Journey together :-D
Warmest Regards and great to see you Sir!
~ ian
Wow, this guy is out of this world. After this i'm going to Walmart to buy my turntable.
Dorne Johnson Brother. WELCOME to the warm open arms of the vinyl community👋😄✌✌✌✌✌!!!
Hahahahaha.....................a laugh is a good start before experiencing a new world of emotions .
Remember that to learn the truth one must unlearn first ...........waking up out of the virtual illusion to reality ............analog ,witch vinyl is part of , vibrates with real life and the universe ............ALL is vibration and harmony starts when vibrations sing together .................so is love and joy ....................
Frank Geeraerts "...Vinyl vibrates with real life..." i love what you said!!! Thank you Brother👍😄!!!!!!
I found your channel recently and i like the way you share your passion and knowledge with people who love music .
So I decided to share mine also...............cartridges, vinyl and electronics are "TOOLS" to serve music .............some focus on the tools and they still want to have instead of want to be ................You don't , you share so you Are ....( and people like you )
Thank you for your gentle and friendly reply.
I Wish you and your family a very happy new-year.
Greatings from Belgium .
Very interesting, well made video. Very high tech equipment in use and well explained procedures. Keep that vinyl spinning.
Thank you friend-in-Vinyl :-) !!
I am grateful for your kindest comments...
We will continue learning together!.. Really love our great Vinylsphere :-D
Best Regards,
Ian.
Yummy video!
Joolzee Gee Thank you Buddy for coming by and your kind words👋😄!!!! Have a lovely vinyl journey!
another superb video!
+lz2k7 Thank you brother :-D for your support and encouragement yet again... I cherish your feedback... a friend I know for more than a year! How time flies!
See you brother... please take care and we'd be spinning for many more, happy years...
My best regards to you.
Excellent video. Very useful information, thanks!
Thank you Sir :-D !
Best Regards for the new Year 2017... have a joyous and peaceful new year ahead with family and vinyl-spinning friends!!!
Sincerely,
- ian.
Love your video's.. so much useful information
Dear fellow brother-in-Vinyl :-D, do enjoy your wonderful vinyl journey ahead!!!
Wish you best of fun and best of music, and best of friends around you!!!
Warmest Regards,
ian :-)
Thank you.. I will
snowu22001 see you friend🤗
Well done and thank you.
Thank you Brother Gene! :-D Thank you for dropping by again and your time and support.
See you my friend!!!
Best regards!
- Ian.
A conundrum with my VPI HRX suggested not to use anti skate. I set it up anyway using an old laser disc. Still skates but nothing like it used to. Tone arm is 3d printed carbon fibre 12 inches in length with slight conical taper just to make things more difficult for you. Tone arm pivot also has VTA built in so you can adjust on the fly if needed. Platter and table are perfectly level. Spiked jack screws were installed in the table legs. Spot on!
Kudos Ian, a very well made video. Salute!
Thank you Brother :-) !!.. I really want to do my best...to the best of my ability. I am still learning together with fellow friends too :-) Let us engage more and more vinyl friends around us...it's my fervent wish and hope our vinylsphere grows steadily and with the fuzzy warmth amongst us friends all over the world.
The video I'm looking for !!!awesome , Ian :)
Hi Martin! I'm very glad my efforts have paid off and been of help to you... just very glad... hope you have fun along the way too! Breathe easy and carry out the steps light-heartedly and have fun :-D !!
We all learn together, and help one another in the vinyl community.
Best Regards Martin!!! :-D
from Ian.
Incredible sum up Ian! This was really, really well done. I'll probably use this for reference for my next cartridge replacement.
Dear Brother Paul, thank you again for your kindest comments and encouragement! :-D really happy to hear your nod of approval... thank you brother!!!
Awaiting the useful, informative and heart-to-heart talks in your next videos... i am salivating.
Best Regards,
Ian.
Thank you for lesson Ian!
Dear Brotehr,
Thank you and you are very welcomed :-D.
Have fun my friend!!
- ian.
Fantastic walk through. Domo arigato! :-)
You are very welcomed my friend!!!
Thank you for coming by and saying hi too!!!
Warmest Regards,
ian. :-)
Keep the vinyl dream alive! :) Just discovered your channel a few days ago. Very informative, friendly and thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you (my hitherto unknown friend)!
Dear Fellow Brother-in-Vinyl!!! You have a very cute channel name!! 33.333!!! I hope you find joy continuously in this hobby and have lovely like-minded friends around you accompanying you on the journey. Best Regards to your community too :-D !!! Hope to see your videos soon my friend!
~ian.
My TT is a Technics SL 1900 set up perfectly with a Nagaoke mp 110. Sounds absolutely amazing. Phono pre amp is Tisbury Domino. AE EVO speakers and concertmeister Baso isolation feet on TT and speakers. Concertmeister baso instead of spikes is an amazing tweak. I keep looking at expensive turntables but I'm worried that the expense of going modern would be dissappointing. My old well set up system beats the pants of my mates modern big name set up. Proof that good setup is very important. Great video again.
Hehheh!!!! YES!! GOOD set-up is so super important as you have realized!!!!and so kindly written down your testimonial :-D !!!!!here for other friends to see and learn from!
Thank you Buddy Tony!!
Great information. Very technical. Thanks.
+John Bellamy Thank you John for your kind encouragement! Happy to see you again!! :-D Thank you for coming by and being a supportive friend!!!
Have a good week ahead and may you have good peaceful evenings at home listening to records :-)
Sincerely, Ian.
I have just spent some time adjusting the skating and levels on my tone arm. It sounds better already. Thanks
+John Bellamy :-D great, great!!!!!!!
Thank you so much ! Wish you were my neighbor lol
Tom Metcalf I'm happy to be yours too Vinyl brother!👋😄
Great video !!!
Thank you for the awesome tutorial on how to setup a turntable. I'll use this video to guide me on how to setup my SL-1200MK3 that's coming in from Japan! Had to get a step down transformer due to the voltage difference in the US but luckily I was able to find a Japanese made Sugano Electric Laboratory SU-1500 that should work well. I hope that the transformer doesn't interfere with the audio.
ren1818ren Brother wow wow wow! It is coming eh?👍😄✌!!! Sugano should be good!!!! For now, drum roll and YOUR MK3 is coming to you very soon!
excellent video, must get myself a spirit level, is there another way of checking anti-skate?, I seen a video on youtube, where a DJ guy uses a smooth record and adjusts the arms to stand still, wonder what you think of this method, Thanks
For some reason I'm hungry for steak now LOL ! thanks for the great tips Ian 👍🏼😊
Alright brother! I find it easy to remember and I believe it will be for you guys!!!
Best Regards,
ian.
Absolutely amazing video, your way of explanation is simply perfect and clear. You have a real passion for the world of vinyl and turntables, it's a pleasure to listen to and watch your videos. N.1
Thank you dear Buddy :-D it is equally my joy to serve you friends and be of help as best as i can. Really happy to be in this warm vinyl community of friends :-D!!!! Warmest Regards and may you and your family be well and happy! Keep on spinning and listening! Enjoy your beautiful sounds and music at home!!!
~ ian.
I love it when you compare turntables. How about a higher comparison between the new Audio Technica AT Lp7 and the Clear Audio Concept. Thanks
Thank you👍
Dear Buddy Tony, thank you too for coming by and saying hi🤗🤗🤗!!
Another great video my friend!!
Hi Brother Paul!! Great to see you again too!!!! Hope you are having a fine weekend :-D !!! ~ ian.
Thank u so much, great process!
Thank you David and enjoy your vinyl journey buddy! :-D
Nice guide man, cheers from Czech Republic ;-)
BouRag[K] Dear friend and fellow brother-in-Vinyl, 💪have great fun in your journey! 😄✌Best Regards to you and your vinyl-spinning friends!!!
- ian
Thank you ! Very helpful
Dear Buddy😄...thank you...I'm just doing my best. I'm sure you know about this subject matter more than me either now, or very soon!!! Let's play vinyl and enjoy our common vinyl analogue bliss.
HiViNyws channel Honestly I’m an absolute beginner in the vinyl world 😉 and your videos have been more than helpful. Keep up the great work. Cheers from France
@@dragui9932 Buddy....please take your time and enjoy your vinyl journey🤗 don't rush anything. My older vinyl friend always tell me that. Take your time. Enjoy the journey.😄👍✌✌🎶🎶
Great video thanks
+Elizabeth Y Michael Cazares Thank you friend!!! :-) catch up again soon!
Best Regards to you both!
from Ian :-D
Thank you brother. Really enjoy this and learned a lot. Appreciate your generosity in making this very carefully thought out video for us. I may not have all the tools you have yet for this but the principles are very well conveyed to where I can do my best with what I have. Planning on taking the vinyl plunge at the end of next week with either a Pro-Ject 2xpression (Sumiko Bluepoint 2) or a Rega RP6 (Exact). Getting very exited.
Brother, thank you for catching up yet again!!! How have things been? ... so have you decided :-D ? Excited for you too... update along my friend!
I am leaning pretty strongly toward the Pro-ject 2xperience. From what I can tell the cartridge that comes with it will be better than the Rega. Also has full adjustability unlike the Rega which does not have VTA/SRA or azimuth adjustability from what I understand. I know there can be advantages to not having them. I do respect the Rega and think I would like it as well so tough decision. Impossible to really tell which sounds better by reading on line. The 2xperience has a real walnut matte veneer. It would eventually make its way into our living room system (2nd system) where it would be a perfect match for a pair of excellent vintage ADS L520 speakers that also have a beautiful real matte walnut veneer of same color. I do not think I can go wrong either way as they should both give a very good entry level experience with vinyl. Also plan to get the Schiit Mani to start with. Want to keep learning and hopefully do some listening before a substantial phonostage upgrade to something that is better and a good fit. Plan to purchase late next week. Will let you know how it turns out. Your a blessing bro!
I am not sure this is the right location to post this, but here goes anyway. This is a review and setup of Nagaoka MP300 cartridge. My cats laid waste of the turntable with tone arm off pivot. Nothing was damaged but I had to realign the whole system. Cartridge was the Kiseki Purple Heart which fortunately had the stylus guard installed. As the Kiseki does not have a replaceable stylus I shopped for something that would sound nearly as good. After 6 months I decided tonight was time for the Nagaoka. My phonostage is a Manley Chinook which required a gain change from 60 to 45db of gain. Manley recommends adding cable capacitance of 90pf for 1m lead and select a capacitance dip that will get you to a desired 120pf or so, 50pf was my closest choice. MP300 was aligned and balanced to 1.53g. Cartridge sounded bright so the added capacitance was removed. Bottom end coupled right in. Played Pink Floyds' Question of Balance. Something was wrong even though sound was balanced and uniform but the sound stage did not feel correct. Sounded like a phase issue. Wiring was per instructions so I reversed the cartridge connection on each channel. BINGO!!! Everything fell into place with a proper soundstage rendering. I think we have a psycho-acoustic thing going on here. The ATTACK sound should come at you, not recede. One other reviewer noticed the same thing with this cartridge. I put Diana Krall "I Dream of You" album on and all was perfection. I fell back in love with the sound and Diana.
Hope this helps some of you to fine tune your listening experience. My review of the Nagaoka MP300 is a resounding A1+.
Extremely good video. I'll definitely look out for the other videos explaining the steps in more detail. My RP8 spins at 33.6RPM.... oooooh nail-biting stuff! One thing I need to ask - please can you display the captions on your videos for a few seconds longer, to give me time to bring up the pause button and press it before the caption disappears? Thanks.
I like this old boy
Heehee....thank you my friend!!!
Big Thanks! :-)
Hi - great setup on the Avid turntable, but I noticed at 2:45 your platter is not quite flat and appears a bit warped. Perhaps a manufacturing defect? But all vinyl isn't flat anyways, probably completely inaudible... Please keep the great videos coming... I really enjoy them here in the States! Best...
Hi Buddy! How are you👋😄!!
The platter is spot on flat, machined aluminium. The only issue then was that i had actually accidentally bumped on the platter quite hard during all the filming, and dented slightly the inverted bearing casework. It is an extremely small dent. I had my local Avid great retailer came over to just fit on the highly modular and replaceable case and sapphire bearing within 30minutes and everything was back to perfect since two years ago. Sammy and Eugene are a Father and Son-in-law team that retails Avid in Singapore. They have close contact with Conrad Mas of Avid UK and service thoroughness and response time is top notch from all of them💪😄👍!!! You can see Sammy and Eugene in my latest video where I picked up the Goldring 1042 cartridge! Their store is called Sound Decisions and have been around for more than 20 years.
Great that you got the platter repaired! I'll look for them in your Goldring 1042 video. Again keep the video's coming! I'd like to see you discuss your opinion on your Technics turntable (or perhaps you have already and I just haven't seen it). Take care...
Thank You.....another nice video my friend...despite the current political and economic crise we are facing in Brazil I use to reserve a time to listen to some music to relax a little....I guess you are using a mat in your Technics produced by Herbie Audio LAbs.....this guy makes wonderful parts...I liked everyone I tested in my system
+hbaboris Dear Friend.....stay strong...
...yes, the Herbie Audio Labs' :-) mat. Thank you for sharing your findings of their products & parts!!
Be well with your family and friends.
Best Regards,
ian.
Ian, do you tape down the platter even when using the dr. feickert protractor? The instructions that come with the protractor seem to indicate that you shouldn't....but it's difficult to say. Thank you for all you do for the vinyl community
Hi Brother🤗!! Thank you for catching up here! May I share this with you...👋🛑 Taping down the platter is to prevent unnecessary and accidental shifting of the platter during alignment...coz accidental shifting may cause accidental bumping of the stylus against the other parts of the tracking force gauge, etc any apparatus that is used during cartridge alignment. Accidents had happened in my own experience before and I had learnt from my mistakes and hence i am very adamant and passionate about taping down the platter before any other steps requiring the stylus touching things here and there✌🛑...
Let me know if you have other queries my friend. 🤗
I miss your reviews, comeback please. I hope you doing well!
Hey Ian, I have an Empire 598 I purchased two years ago and added a Denon 103R to it last year. Using it yesterday to digitize my vinyl for VC videos I'm making, I found the audio balance far off (louder on the left side by almost 6db). To think, the past year I've been listening to like this! I'm taking the guess work out of setting turntables up the right way. I'm watching your videos and I just bought Michael Fremer's latest DVD (21st Century Vinyl). Thanks for the work you do; while it's a bit overwhelming for me, it would be even more so if it weren't for tutorials like this. Now I just need to practice, practice, practice. :) Thank you VC brother! -Brad
Dear friend!... congrats and happy practising!!! Practising, practising, practising!!.. it gets so easy after a few times... you will learn fast!!! Best regards my friend!
~ ian.
Thanks for the vote of confidence Ian. :)
Hello Ian!,
This is Mark from Canada!
This is a fantastic video! A must see for everyone who owns a turntable. There so many things I've learned from this video...I thank you very much for this my friend. I hope you don't mind but I would like to share it on my Projekt Gemineye Facebook group. Lots of people who I know own turntables but may not know some of this important information. Let me know if you are ok with me doing this.
Take care and I hope all is well with you and your family.
Mark Anthony K
Projekt Gemineye
Mark Kopernicky Dearest Mark🤗, information is free on the net...use it as you deem fit my brother!... and you are one of my best buddies💪💪🤗🤗🤗🤗!!! Certainly you are more than welcomed! I hope it can help more vinyl friends out there to learn the basic skills and henceforth go on to enjoy really superb vinyl analog music oozing from their speakers😄✌! Projekt Gemineye rocks🎸🎸🎶💪✌
brilliant!
Dear Buddy :-D thank you for catching up again ever so often... I am sorry for my late reply to your kind reply here.
So how has your journey so far :-D>...getting the Rega P6 soon i guess!!!
@@HiViNywschannel Hi, thanks for the reply! I decided I like the look of the Linn Sondek (*the* turntable to have from my youth)! But of course that means a) $$$ and b) figuring out the options. I've put the turntable on the back burner for now. If I'm thinking completely clearly then yes, I probably will end up with a P6 (or 8 or ...?) but for now I'm keeping the Linn flame alive! Keep producing your great content!
Heyhey!!! You are going to keep the Linn flame alive!!! Good!! Good!!! to pursue a dream since your youth!!! I understand what that means!!! If you really love something, and you purchase something else... you would always keep going back and thinking about that "love" and , eventually lose money as you would not like the other one that you bought. Better to hold your finances and go all out for that thing that you MUST own :-D!!! I wish you all the very smoothness in your journey!!!
Thank you for replying so fast my friend!!!
@@HiViNywschannel I like your attitude! :) Which a big part of why I subscribed!! You're right - I have to do it.
@@treyquattro Power be with you Brother Trey 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪😄👍👍✌✌✌✌🎶🎵🎶🎶🎶
Hi, you should try to align the cartridge on the technics at 232mm 22.8° null point at 68mm and 112mm
Thank you Buddy Yohann💪🤗🍀
My next turntable is going to have VTA adjustment capabilities. I kinda held out on technics from the hype, but maybe time to look at one.
Hi Buddy great to see you again👋😄!! Yes indeed!!!! VTA adjustability is very useful to have!! And of course, the top dog turntable to have be it used or new, under US$1k, is a used SL1200Mk3/3D/5💪😄🎶🎵🎶🎶🎶!!!
Best Regards my friend!!!!!!
I wish you all the best in procuring one lovely unit!!✌😄✌
Very, very helpful video! Thank you so much for going through all of this effort to help us! :) Altough I have to say that the audio could be a bit better, English is not my first language so the "popping" sounds in the audio sometimes made certain words a bit hard to understand. Aside from that, this has to be the most detailed video I have seen on youtube in how to set up a turntable PROFESSIONALLY! You have just earned yourself a new subscriber!
:-D Thank you Jonathan... i am doing this just for the sake of helping the vinyl community. I want to commit my energies to it because of the many wonderful friends who have helped me before and whom I have known...ALL KIND AND WARM TO BE WITH!!! I love the Vinyl ecosphere!!!! :-D We walk along and help more to be engaged in this most wonderful form of music appreciation.
Best Regards to you and your family & friends!
- ian.
Hi Ian, thanks so much for your effort. I found your testing LP sounds very good, will you introduce them to us? thank you
Dear Buddy :-D thank you too for your time coming by and catching up! The Testing LP can be purchased in some local record stores, or online. I do know that musicdirect sells it :-D... i am sure you can find it quite easily. I hope so for you buddy! ~ ian.
Thank you
Cover the ventilation slots of any equipment below where you are working. Been there :). Are you well Ian, haven't seen any new stuff for ages?
Thank you my friend!!!! How are you too?🙏😄🤗
@@HiViNywschannel I am well Ian thank you, good to know you are also. Things have moved along a little with my system since we last chatted.
I went for an Ortofon 2M Black cartridge for my Transcriptors Hydraulic/SME, initially I thought it sounded a little brittle but after fettling and running in all I can say is WOW.
As I type this I am awaiting delivery of a new Michell Gyrodec, the great, great, great, great grandson of the Transcriptor's, oh happy day when they are sitting next to each other :).
I will use the HRS100mcs arm off my Alphason Sonata, it only had about 200 hours use before the Sonata's PS went to Valhalla, crafty pun there ;).
Thank you for such wonderful information ! You are truly a gem of a human being ! Question... What do you think of the Yamaha TT-S303 ?! Does the phono preamp within the turntable affect the audio quality? I want to pair it with a Nagaoka for mostly Jazz... Im a huge Yamy fan and am a huge fan of their natural sound reproduction. Let me know your thoughts!?!? Please and Thank You !
Hivi, appreciate all your time and effort when reviewing cartridges and tutorials. In a bit of a bind making a decision when attempting to replace stylus on Grado F-1+.
Can you recommend a compatible replacement? This will be set on Pioneer LP-530.
Hey Ian, I know you said it somewhere; but I'm not able to find your answer - what software do you use to find the stylus rake angle? Also, do you have a USB microscope you would recommend? Thanks! Hope you're doing well brother! -Brad
I was hoping to find this out as well
thanks for the help :)
My pleasure... thank you too for catching up.
:-)
Best Regards,
- ian.
Nice
Thank you Buddy👋😄!!!! Hope you have a lovely and very warm vinyl'ing journey!!!!
This tutorial is great :))
Thank you yet again Brother Szczepan for coming by!! Best Regards! I believe you already know all the steps :-D... thank you for catching up! ~ ian
Hi friend. I was wondering what you thought of the Technics overhang gauge. I use it for my 1200 and it sounds great to me and is a lot quicker than the trial and error of a protractor. I'm wondering if you use it for your Technic?