My favorite scam was the Monster Modem cable.

The most importent part in listening to Music in a room is in fact the room itself! A 1.000$ hifi system can sound decent in a very well sound treated room and a 100.000$ hifi system in very bad sounding room will not produce good results. Investing some time and money into making your listening room sound good will save you so much money and stress. In a good sounding room you will also be able to hear sutble difference like with speaker cables, power cords.... much better. Thanks Chris for all the effort you put into your channel. All the best for 2025!

Jeez, enter the 21st century already. Switch to CDs. I'm tired of hearing about the "better sound" of vinyl. Every record or CD sounds different to each of us, because we all hear differently. Neither technology is "the best". But one thing I'm sure of: growing up with vinyl I'd give anything to get rid of scratches, pops, crackles, and when CDs were introduced, they sounded so much better. To me, the subtle differences between vinyl and digital in no way make up for even a single pop on a vinyl record.

Enjoyed this video. Lots of excellent information Chris. Thank you.

who has noisey vinyl???

What are you thoughts on using Super record wash by MoFi?

I use a similar cream from the USA..I am very satisfied..of course it does not remove scratches from the needle, but it removes the fine cracking in the background..approximately 20 to 40% measured by the software..The cream must be removed from the vinyl after polishing

Some of these parts, the dust cover and the 45 adapter are the exact same as the Angels Horn. I would not be surprised if it's the same company from China.

This is EXACTLY what their customer service does when you ask them real questions. Their onboard preamp is not good. I wanted to hook up an external preamp at phono out and they have NO IDEA what specs to provide. I have tried 3 preamps and they say im hooking up cables incorrectly! They will not help unless you make a popular negative youtube video. Its a scam company without customer service. Their reviews are a hoax and they remove 1-2* reviews on their website and amazon.

Would jumping from red mc quintet to the black mc quintet black S be a good move.. Or shoyld i try another mc cartridge. Ihave Tom evans phono a power amps, project classic evo turntable and mordaunt short 40s anniversary SE floorstanding speakers. The sound of the red is good, but i am looking for more detail from instruments, depth of voices and more from low noise intro and outro' s.

What a BS clickbait title. Will make a conscious effort not to watch you again.

I enjoy your videos but hate this one just because the title almost sucks me in every time 🙂

You may not hear such low frequencies but you may feel the vibrations

I'm really glad to see you're back. I was kind of wondering.

I bought the Milty and will follow your best method 4 TIMES 8 inches ...record in-hand. Now the question is sometimes I hear a clik in the zerostat. Pulling the trigger too fast?? The clik sound means I'm doing it too fast?? The 4X can get very time consuming. But I don't have $400 for those DE-STAT machines.....which DO WORK

Update to my comment. Although my amp switches off rca inputs not being used to prevent cross talk, i was playing a cd after an album. Forgot to turn off the air. When i saw and turned it off, the volume on the cd increased. I think it reduced the gain on the other inputs. Did it to tuner too. Probably my amp, but i make sure it is off when playing anything but turntable. Still the best thing ive heard. No critique. Just information love it.

i share your oppinion on photos, it sucks the moment

with similarly priced cartridge: Naga MP150 , Moonstone, AT 540 . would you pick the X8 or the X2. Would I benefit more from X2s tonearm (heavier and alu-carbon sandwich) design or X8-s overall better design?

Mine arrived yesterday! I've worn out three of the Zerostats since 1980. Those do work, but I'm impressed with the ease of this device. Thanks for the tests.

Why would you want to get rid of that?

This was a recent experience I had with trying out different power cables to power an Audioquest Niagara 1200 power conditioner. (including a $15 Tripp-Lite Heavy Duty power cable from Home Depot as a baseline reference point). First, the AQ Niagara 1200 power conditioner improved the clarity and resolution of my audio system compared to a $50 computer surge protector, while a Furman PST-8D power conditioner sounded more muffled and veiled compared to the same $50 surge protector. FWIW, that was not what I expected from the Furman. In any case, I tested out 3 power cables on the AQ Niagara 1200 to see if 1) They had any audible effect, and 2) What audible effect they would have (if any). In terms of the effect that I heard from power cables used with the AQ Niagara 1200 power conditioner, the AQ Niagara had a very positive effect on the sound of my system with the $15 Tripp-Lite power cable. Switching the Tripp-Lite out for an AQ NRG-Z3 power cable added additional improvement in terms of clarity & resolution. From a cost standpoint, I decided to try one more jump up in price level of power cable though the NRG-Z3 on the AQ Niagara 1200 was sounding so good that I couldn't really imagine how it could get any better. In any case, switching out the AQ NRG-Z3 power cable for an AQ Blizzard power cable produced as much subjective improvement over using the NRG-Z3 as that power cable did over the $15 Tripp-Lite power cable. That was quite surprisingly for me as I though the point of diminishing returns would have kicked in already. Overall, I would attribute the following percentages to the contribution of each component to the overall improvement in clarity and resolution: AQ Niagara with Tripp-Lite power cable: 60% of total improvement + AQ NRG-Z3 power cable: 20% of total improvement + AQ Blizzard power cable: 20% of total improvement My experience opened up my mind to moving even further up the price levels of Audioquest power cables, BUT my skeptical mind says that there must be some point at which the marginal gains become miniscule. Perhaps I'll either buy something used that I can resell or something new that can be returned.

But it sounds better with line noise .I mean just Imagine vinyl without pops and crackles !

I’ve had both, the ifi zen js better, esp with the improved wall wart. Minor improvement though.

Preamp suggestion to go with the Pro-Ject Carbon Ev0?

Each leg means…8 positive, 8 negative, 8 for the long ground pin. 8+8+8=24

Cables make a huge difference. The B-24 cable is very good and a bargain for what you get. Tone improves dramatically.

I was under the impression that you'd comment on the turntable's sound quality. The record player's playback effect is really great.

I have many plaver. in my correction!

This review seems to have whipped them into shape.. The web site seems a little more cleared up of errors as of my writing this and they may be the first made in China company that admitted they are Chinese.. LOL

The Quintet wasn't really on my radar personally even though I knew it existed since I'm generally more interested in Dynavector and Goldring in this sort of price range but I love the assessment as always!

Try again with that 3 seconds

Birmingham bowl

Please begin with your conclusions and not waste our time. If someone wants to wade through your boring video, more power to them.

Good video 🙂Should i buy this for £245 or a Knosti Disco Antistat Generation II Plus which is £90?Is it worth paying the extra £155 over the Knosti?

I've been enjoying my cork mat for the past 2 years with the only drawback I've found being that it tends to come off with a statically charged record. That's the one area where I would prefer my stock rubber mat on my SL-1210GR.

PSA: This video offers NO solution to vinyl pops & crackles. Please be clear and transparent on what this video is.

I’m curious about treating the record before and after actually cleaning the dust off the record with a brush etc. That seems to be where I end up introducing the most static

At-lp70x is a huge upgrade and actually cheaper on Amazon sometimes. Like now. It's great. And replaceable cart and j style tone arm.

Hey Chris, Great to see your Back, & thank you for the review / Investigative product review. Good to see the manufacture took notice of your well informed Video & Is now trying to do some corrections. That, I think is a testament to your fair, kind, but 'no Sugar Coated' truth about the product. My first thought at the beginning of the video was how are the isolating the Vibration from the speakers? I know this can be done fairly simply, but I Did not recall you touching on the subject. If you did & I missed that, please forgive me, I Will re- Watch ; ) Keep up the good work, God Bless.

I got very good experiences with all kinds of Supra Cables, for a ‘nice’ price!

Just ask yourself why theae cables are not used in studio enviroments.

To test the function of ionizers in air purifiers and hair dryers (they often use the same modules, if you type "negative ion generator module" into flea-bay you can see an assortment), just purchase an inexpensive volt meter (DVM), touch the negative probe to something earth grounded (such as the fastening screw on outlet wall plate, assuming it's not painted) and hold the positive probe in the air stream being produced by the device. The closer you hold it to the device the more negative/positive the voltage should read (if it is actually doing anything). A negative value would indicate the presence of negative ions and a positive value would indicate positive ions are being produced.

A glorified, all in one, suitcase unit.SPecs show siza and weight, number of speeds...

For a little more than that price, buy a Kenwood KD-1033, a little class D amp, little phono pre, and a pair of 80's/90's locally built mass made speakers (for us in France, JMLab Focal Symbol for example), and you'll destroy all this.

There are a lot of uneducated people out there, it's a fact. Unfortunately, they have possibility to make youtube videos as well. Sooner, we accepted better for us.

I bought a Michell Gyrodeck/HR PS a couple of years ago and fitted the Alphason HRS100mcs tonearm from my broken Sonata onto the new arrival. The arm and cartridge, an AT-OC7 probably only had about 100 hours use before the Sonata's PS went to Valhalla leaving me unable to find anyone who could repair it. That was getting on for 30 years ago :(. I bought the Michell to keep its ancestor, my carefully rebuilt and re-engineered Transcriptor Hydraulic Reference/SME/2M Black company in my system. While the Michell combo sounds wonderful it doesn't sound that much more wonderful than the Transcriptor combo, which it should outshine comfortably but on the occasional disc the Transcriptor combo kicks the Michell combo's buttocks. I'm using an M1 ViNL phono amp so I don't think the MC stage is a limitation. I'm feeling that although the AT-OC7's stylus is only about 1/3 through its life the suspension is probably compromised after sitting in its box all that time and so I need a new MC cartridge. Obviously both turntables/arms looks would be spoilt by something as brutal looking as a Nagaoka on their ends, hence the 2M Black on the SME and in the case of the HRS100, probably the Ethos. Getting a dealer to bring one round to my home so I can hear it before I buy it probably Isn't Going to happen, we have no dealers near me who I'd trust to handle it anyway, so I am grateful for your and The Audiophile Man's reviews. Thank you.

Welcome back Chris! Thank you once again for a very well thought out and informative discussion of a new product that may or may not be a product that someone wants to spend their hard earned money on. I appreciate your candor and find it refreshing to hear when someone is honest about their findings and report what they found! Keep up the good work!

If the platter is setting on top of the speaker array, wouldn't the vibration affect the sound? Curious.

service and repair was a topic I was glad to see mentioned as a buying consideration, because that is the only thing that will keep products from becoming waste and crowding the landfill. I am grateful my turntable has the readily available parts I need , by simply buying over the internet. the table lost a spring when a friend moved it, but I will be able to fix that and it will probably be used for generations beyond my ownership.

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