I find it rather annoying that Sumiko doesn't state when the cartridge has a bonded stylus. I was interested in the Bluepoint #3 but it seems odd that it is bonded at a $500 price point. I have an Audio-Technica AT-VM95ML that has a nude square shank Microlinear stylus and only costs $169. The Ortofon 2M Blue has a nude elliptical for $189. I'm not referring to sound quality, just construction.

Who makes that tools with the machined out handles?

Love the old ADS LS300. I have the 300s on my office system and used to have the 200’s mounted on the rear deck of my 1978 Checker Marathon running on a 100 watt Nakamichi amp. Even for such a small speaker they have amazing kick in the bass. Thanks for this great video. Some great memories in these and learned about some new stuff I never knew existed.

mother of god

Hello, I am a long time viewer and I have the Cornwall IV speakers which I love. I was wondering if you have figured out a way to incorporate isolation feet to these speakers? Also, I have the sheepskin covers on my Cornwalls, it is a special order. Thankyou

Just curious: what happened if your CD had more than 15 tracks? I understand that back then most of them didn’t, but anyways just curious how the player would react, and if even would recognise/read the disc at all.

OK... my .02. I demo'd all these Klipsch speakers back in the 80s, with exception to Jubilee. The sound quality remains. K-horns and Cornwalls outperform the others. Biggest bang for the buck are Cornwalls. I've had mine since 1980. The question remains. Should I upgrade to Cornwall IV?

Yes, legendary. But, nothing special. You just look inside, everything made of poor materials, electronics very bad etc...

Danny Richie from GR-Research (search YT) has lately offered a large XO upgrade for these with FR improvements , I think well worth the investment!

hi there's alot of one of decks out there it's the only way to keep them running i jazz up reel to reel decks so they have more life as i plan to use the decks to move audio it's ok they just work right and do the work i fixed them for alot love to have show of decks i am not like this there are gear with heavy marks on them or audio cards that are not working right if i had one like this i would worry the lid would break i have a big cat i have to had well made covers for all my reel to reel when the reels are moving

awesome video :) thanx for your efforts. Sound of Jubilee is on another level. awesome to see reality of many speakers sound :)

Ok… I can't decide. I like them all. They all sound so different but also so good. All of them have such a clean sound.

Amazing, they all sounds like my Gigaworks T20...

Cornwalls

When I was a teenager, I dreamed of owning a pair of the K-horns and now that I am in retirement, I dream of owning the Jubilees.

Technics is off its meds. The two fully functioning SL-1210 Mk2s I purchased on active duty were $278. & $312(post Oct’87 stock market crash) They still bring the magic this very day🌹 I’d never go anywhere near this insane inflation, these days.

PS That ain't a flagship! It's an armada!

Someone had to have these. I'm glad it's you!

Appena acquistato, grande prodotto mcintosh.

I wonder if this could be connected between an external DAC and a integrated amp. You would then be adjusting the tone before it gets to the amp.

Where is the link to the iPhone app?

Unfortunately no one uses CD players anymore, it's just a nice heavy dinosaur.

S U P E R B , S U B L I M E , and all-out G O R G E O U S ! ! for the world’s greatest performances 🌹

Can someone explain to me what is the pre-amp for? Why?? What's the difference?

Will EQ112 compatible for C50 pre-Amp?

Why not also take the same test with a Rega Planar 8 ogr 10? Than we will see the effect of heavy vs light players!

Quite a bit of difference between them all. I prefer 3 of them. Very interesting demo!

Opens the box and smacks the delicate main bearing shaft onto the table, then proceeds to rough handle this "precision instrument" througout the rest of the video. He will need his test equipment to help repair the damage he inflicted on the turntable. Does this guy actually have a hi-fi business?

Running this pair and love it. Would love to get a hold of the rack handles for the pa7. The look is bad ass..I you have a set let me know?

Understandably I've been buying and listening to collective since 1975.. put always seek out the previous model of the heritage speakers that you want and you will save thousands of dollars and the difference between let's say the heresy three and the Harris and four are virtually no different to each other and the way they sound and the way your ears perceive them in the average size living room bedroom or basement

I find these kind of videos weird. You're looking at an extremely roundabout way of reading a digital audio file. If the digital version (uncompressed, untouched PCM or FLAC) exists.. there's no need for a CD player. You can play the digital audio through whatever DAC you like. If a rip of the disc doesn't exist... make one using any commodity DVD/Blu-ray reader, then feed to DAC of choice as above. No idea why you'd need (or want) a period correct CD deck. It's an opto-mechanical thumb drive.

Vari good 😊

I love Nak gear and own a couple myself, but the goofy need to use little screwdrivers to make fine adjustments to BIAS for each tape type instead of just having knobs there is beyond belief.

Yes, it sounds sublime but that's too much to pay for a cartridge.

The CDP 101 is one of the most atrocious sounding players ever made. The CX20017 DAC was pretty poor linearity wise, and the multiplex dual channel implementation didn't help: The DAC converted both channels alternatively, and there was no hold and sample circuit so the output from each channel was played sequentially with a delay of 0,11 to 0,16 ms.

I found two WE KS-19602 LI amps built by McIntosh for Western Electric. Worth much?

Just hearing this on a KZfaq video is a surreal experience.

LOVE MY NEW SOTA NOVA!

I'm an audiophile on a fixed income, you can imagine what kind of nightmare that is!😮

I’ll have tone controls please!

K Horns by a wide margin

$1300 for an ENTRY level table..haàaa, do you know what I can get for that kind of 💰 that's WAY BETTER...PLENTY!

Simaudio Moon is a ripoff. Boulder, Octave, McIntosh, Bryston… so many better engineered systems and better run companies out there.

This is what DREAMS are made of!❤

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Lascsla, every day of the week.

I was very surprised how good the Forte sound. I thought the Cornwall would have sounded better .

do you have a video on the Nakamicci 500 ?

Moving the turntable about like that could damage the main bearing housing. This is a customer's turntable... did the customer expect to receive a damaged turntable?