New McIntosh turntable!

Does it not look exactly as if it should have those old sliders on the bottom to allow it to be pulled out from the audio rack and then slid back in?

The only visual that's missing is that old fashioned "stacker" arm that would rotate out above the records.

I'd love to know who is making the tonearm, platter, and cartridge.

Hi,

My left channel monitor (Titus Es) fell off it's stand last night (I don't have them anchored in any way which is another issue) and damaged the upper corner of the cabinet.

The corner is folded in about one half inch or so. The monitor still sounds ok but I'm not an expert in this area and am looking for repair suggestions.

PS...What can I use to anchor monitors to stand without damaging cabinet?

thanks

Howard

So, after much deliberation, I am finally ready to plunge ahead and put together my 1st system (thanks to all of you for your input, especially KBK & AlexO!) At first, I was leaning toward used European solid state integrateds like Creeks and Atolls, then toward Japanese vintage ones... but a last minute serendipitous turn has me going tube amp: Yaqin MC 10L.

http://buy.audiogon.com/cgia/cls.pl?ampstube&1202066389

Hi,

I'm a complete newcomer into the audiophile scene, and would like to get a very basic but decent turntable to listen to some records I have. As a college student I can't justify a whole lot of $$ on it, but I've found a Technics SL-1300 that looks to be in good shape (just needs a new stylus) for around $100. All I want to do is listen to some records at home so I'm not even really sure what my needs are exactly. I just want to be able to start using my vinyl soon! Also this has a YM 10VE cartridge. Is this good/bad? Please advise.

The appearance of the Boulder 810/860 review on the main page brought to my attention that Manufacturer Comments are not provided, at least they aren't in this case as I'm aware there was a rather strongly worded comment from the Manufacturer.

Is this (omission) a policy, and if so why?

Personally I'd like to see the Manufacturer comments posted with the full review.

I purchased an oppo 970HD universal player to play DVD's with my new 42" LCD HDTV. Wow! What a great DVD player. And after reading a review a couple of months ago in Stereophile about it's sonic capabilities I was hoping to condense my system and have it double as my cd player as well. WRONG!!

I do not profess to be an audiophile but it was immediately appearant my 14 year old Denon carousel changer sounds better. I even double checked everything including setting up the oppo via the graphic interface on the television.

My HT/audio gear if fairly common. Yet the room I am working with might be rather unusual in regard to the application of audio. I really have no understanding of room treatments or what they look like. I included a drawing of my current setup as relates to factors that should be important to room dynamics and the possible application of room treatments. If you have time, take a look, and tell me what might help.