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Having horrible trouble with the Reference Sonata. I did some more adjusting, and now this cart is bright as hell, like really horribly bright. I can't seem to get this cartridge to click into my system like I did with the Statement Platinum. Taking a break for the rest of the night, I'll head back into battle tomorrow.

yeah, molly is a pound mutt. its apparent she has some terrier in her and a bit of ewok, but other then that it is a mystery.

Bexley Penultimate LE based on the Poseidon model, #6/22 with F nib, made of a scare Italian Tibaldi celluloid. Gorgeous pen!

x2, some ting in there

Nate, aside from the magic eye tubes, how do you feel about the HD200? From a design standpoint.

good idea. you should get mikhail to use a maestro chassis, and tune it as a preamp for the predator.

Bought a used (50hrs according to the seller) Grado Reference Sonata on the gon for cheap. Had a hell of a time getting it aligned last night. A word of advice for anyone new to vinyl, or just to myself for posterity: don't try to setup a new cartridge at 9:45pm at night. Its really best to wait until you have the luxury of a free weekend afternoon. Listening to test signals on the HiFi News Test LP is not a good way to relax for bed. At first I got the azimuth down, but then I realized the cart was way to forward in its headshell, so I pulled it off and started from scratch with the overhang gauge. What a total pain in the ass. But anyway, I think I'm reasonable happy with it, though I did fall asleep last night with a british guys voice speaking in my head against the backdrop of a high pitched tone (20 hertz... 19 hertz... 16 hertz... 15 hertz... 9 hertz [omg cartridge wobble O M G]) . From my very brief listening session last night, I can tell the Sonata is obviously richer and fuller then the Platinum. Its difficult to do a direct comparison though since the Sonata is a Reference and the Platinum is a Statement. Maybe I should buy billy's statement sonata, get a new headshell, and do a shootout with the PH-1.

Does the apogee have analog inputs, like for needledrops?

Yes, its easy enough to scrounge up a used HagUSB or similar. I don't think anyone should limit themselves to just USB DACs.

pfft, well at least molly believes me. she was there when john showed up.

ack, more grado haze huh? Well I bought it because the PH-1 phono stage emits pounds of hiss in its high gain mode. Bad. Otherwise the platinum statement sounds great. We'll see, I'll install it and align it tonight.

Sweet. I'll give you $1600 for them.

Hell man, put 'em up and see what happens. Then you can tell us if the 1500+ thing is true. I still think its BS.

Grado Sonata Reference

If I had a vintage RS-1 I would take up your offer for the RS-1 + cash for HP2 swap. Its a good deal.

he did, he loved it, he showed up at my house and told me. remember I had that picture?

again, I call total bullshit on the $1500. They don't even have the wood box. Maybe, maybe if they were NOS, AND in the wood box, AND Joseph and John Grado would deliver them to your door personally, AND then they cook you dinner, AND also Joe has an HP-1000 with him that he gives to you. Then, and only then, might they be worth $1500.

also bought the boris "pink" icy pink vinyl and the sun 0))) "oracle" clear vinyl while I was at it.

yeah but I'm a workaholic codependent. also i'm lazy. :'(

Boris & Sunn 0))) - Altar 3xLP. The ebay seller was not sure which color this was. He mentioned an LE of 1000 copies, so I'm crossing my fingers that this is the black one (the black one had the lowest amount of pressings at the aforementioned 1000 copies). Both "Pink" & "Black One" are breathtakingly good, so I imagine this one would be pretty cool.

yeah but work is over at 5pm on friday.

i'm working on making it. will need to take some vacation time, wondering how i want to do that. i just got back from vacation today and my coworkers said I can't take anymore vacations.

$1750 is a ridiculous price. The market simply will not bear it. My pair isn't brown headband vintage, but its serial numberless, and I paid $445 for it.

Millions?