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I have just had a Bartok APEX followed by a Rossini APEX on home demo. The Rossini is significantly better than the Bartok to my ears. Compared to my current DAC, a Mytek Manhattan II, the Bartok was different but not necessarily better, but the Rossini beats the Mytek by a significant margin...

I think you make an excellent point. My system sounds better when I'm in a good mood. As has been said before, psycho-acoustics (is this the right term?) play a large part in out perception of sound quality. Oh, on the subject of bikes, fancy paint jobs make bikes slower because they make...

My first question is: what is it that you don't like about the sound of your system/room? If there is a boom in the bass, you would probably benefit from bass traps in the corners of the room, at least those behind your speakers. Acoustic panels or diffuser panels on the wall behind the...

can you still buy an SP25? Every teenager's dream in 1972!

£104k = a fire sale! Hopefully that's an end to it.

Rega P10 and Technics SL1200G. Both in constant use. As mentioned above, the Rega is highly accurate and you just hear what your cartridge retrieves from the record. The Technics allows me to swap carts (which I like doing), is a little more laid back but is also pitch perfect and more...

Dark Turban, I have iB2SE speakers, which share the same tweeters and mid range drivers with the MB2SE. The bass drivers are smaller in the iB2SE and it also has a nominal impedance of 4 ohms not 8. I drive them with a Bryston 4B3 (300W into 8 ohms, 500 W into 4 ohms) and I can confirm that...

He didn't say which year .....

It's sold!

Sold!

For sale my Goldring 1042 MM cartridge. It is about three months old and has had about 30 hours of use in my Technics SL1200G. I use a few different cartridges in this turntable and this one sees little use, hence my decision to sell it. I have the original packaging and would ship it in this...

JRiver Media Center also used to be pretty good. You can download a trial from the JRiver website. If you decide to keep it, you will have to pay for it though.

Mogami 2965 is 65pf/m and Rega Couple 3 is 80pf/m including plugs .......

I think the arm on my SL1200G is at the low end of what is considered medium mass (I read somewhere that its effective mass is around 9g), so it should work. My MM stage should be fine, as its capacitance can be adjusted from 0pf up to 320pf (i.e., up to about 400pf or so with the arm...

The answer obviously is that AT haven't assembled them properly. Now, either I have been unlucky, the problem only involves the ML stylus assembly, or you are just lucky! Also, some others, who have posted in this thread, have mentioned that they have had issues with the ML stylus assembly, so...