I recently spent a whole bunch of money on a new turntable, a 3" thick maple isolation platform, an Ortofon Concorde Music Black cartridge & a $1,000 vacuum tube phono preamp from Black Ice Audio. ...and, man...my phono stage sounds good (to me anyways). ...but I'm still mad at myself for not buying a VPI turntable. I REALLY should have.
No worries, we aren't going anywhere. Enjoy the current deck and the next time you get the itch we will be here. And if you are ever in New Jersey you are welcome to come by for a visit, regardless of your table :)
@@MatWeisfeld Oh, I'm definitely going to have one of the bigger, heavier VPI models at some point. Probably sooner than later. I've not been involved in the HiFi hobby for all that long. Truth be told, I never intended this to be a "hobby". I was always a car audio guy. ...but in the short time I've been messing with HiFi, I like it AT LEAST as much as I like car audio. All that said...whether I wanted it or not, this IS my hobby now. So there's a 0% chance that I won't switch out every single piece of gear I own with something else within 2-3 years time. Just to have new toys. EDIT: I just got too impatient the first time around. I had never owned a vinyl record in my life til about 2 years ago. I bought a Fluance RT85 and the next thing I knew I had spent about 10 grand on records. ....and that's when I decided to get the new turntable, iso platform, concorde black cartridge, etc etc etc. If I had waited ONE MORE WEEK, I'd have had enough cash to pick up a used Scoutmaster, or somethin' of the like. That's the move I should have made. Really. I was just too "excited". I got too worked up about having all this new kit & didn't want to wait another day. Let alone another week. ...and I did end up with a Music Hall Stealth/Funk Firm Achromat/Concorde Black cartridge/Pro-Ject Sweep-IT S2/Michelle Engineering clamp, Black Ice Fusion9 Mk3 phono pre w/ NOS Telefunken tubes, etc etc etc. It ain't like I ended up with trash. Still, the Stealth ain't no VPI.....
I recently spent a whole bunch of money on a new turntable, a 3" thick maple isolation platform, an Ortofon Concorde Music Black cartridge & a $1,000 vacuum tube phono preamp from Black Ice Audio.
...and, man...my phono stage sounds good (to me anyways).
...but I'm still mad at myself for not buying a VPI turntable.
I REALLY should have.
No worries, we aren't going anywhere. Enjoy the current deck and the next time you get the itch we will be here. And if you are ever in New Jersey you are welcome to come by for a visit, regardless of your table :)
@@MatWeisfeld Oh, I'm definitely going to have one of the bigger, heavier VPI models at some point. Probably sooner than later.
I've not been involved in the HiFi hobby for all that long. Truth be told, I never intended this to be a "hobby". I was always a car audio guy.
...but in the short time I've been messing with HiFi, I like it AT LEAST as much as I like car audio.
All that said...whether I wanted it or not, this IS my hobby now. So there's a 0% chance that I won't switch out every single piece of gear I own with something else within 2-3 years time.
Just to have new toys.
EDIT: I just got too impatient the first time around. I had never owned a vinyl record in my life til about 2 years ago. I bought a Fluance RT85 and the next thing I knew I had spent about 10 grand on records.
....and that's when I decided to get the new turntable, iso platform, concorde black cartridge, etc etc etc.
If I had waited ONE MORE WEEK, I'd have had enough cash to pick up a used Scoutmaster, or somethin' of the like. That's the move I should have made. Really. I was just too "excited". I got too worked up about having all this new kit & didn't want to wait another day. Let alone another week. ...and I did end up with a Music Hall Stealth/Funk Firm Achromat/Concorde Black cartridge/Pro-Ject Sweep-IT S2/Michelle Engineering clamp, Black Ice Fusion9 Mk3 phono pre w/ NOS Telefunken tubes, etc etc etc. It ain't like I ended up with trash. Still, the Stealth ain't no VPI.....
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