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LOL, I have been watching reruns of The Price Is Right from 1983 and that boombox has been a prize on multiple occasions. It’s a linear turntable that can play both sides without flipping.My cassette research has finally gotten me to deem something grail status:
Sharp VZ-2500 | The Boombox Wiki
One of Sharp's biggest boomboxes with a linear tracking turntable. In Japan, it was known as the VZ-V20.
I mean anything is better than the ceramic Dalmatian you ended up buying with the leftover cash in a Wheel of Fortune showroom. Secrest should bring that shit back.
My SO’s dream is to be on Wheel Of Fortune (she made it thru to the 2nd round once in tryouts) but she absolutely HATES Seacrest with a passion so now her life is at a crossroads.
she could always go on and bully Seacrest. that'd make for some good TV!
Does it? Isn’t that what the Kelly Ripa show was?
haha one of my good friends works on that show. she told our friends to tune in one morning because there was gonna be something huge happening on the show. we watched it for 5 minutes and my father in law fell asleep and started snoring loudly haha. don't even remember what the big thing was.
I mean I'm sure nearly any stage at this level would be as big of a jump over my Aria, like everyones Sutherland's on here etc... not really contingent on it being this particular stage but yeah, it's kinda blowing my mind right now. The tracking on the VPI is crazy good so that helps. It just rides over everything.don't TELL me these things.
(looks up price of open box JC3+...)
the problem with having two turntable setups is that I upgrade one, less than a year goes by and I want to upgrade the other one...
Having two systems was a lot of fun, gave me the opportunity to learn a lot of things about a lot of gear and, most importantly, what MY preferences were in the "sound" of music. If you have money to burn, go with multiple systems, if your like most of us, build and put your money towards one really good system.
i have one setup in my office where most of my records are and I usually listen during the day when WFH. then my "main" setup is downstairs in our sitting room where I listen on the weekends and can sit undistracted. so i don't see myself ever getting rid of the 2nd setup. My downstairs setup is close to end game for me right now. Think I'd just be left with swapping carts out every once in awhile. Really like the Sutherland Insight down there.Having two systems was a lot of fun, gave me the opportunity to learn a lot of things about a lot of gear and, most importantly, what MY preferences were in the "sound" of music. If you have money to burn, go with multiple systems, if your like most of us, build and put your money towards one really good system.
I'm really happy with having found 90%+ of my end game, the 10% isn't any core piece, it's carts and speakers, nothing more. I guess what I'm trying to say, it's fun, but not all it's cracked up to be, you tend to end up in constant upgrade-itis for one or the other system. AND, you can only listen to one at a time.
Just one mans opinion
Your Insight is arguably better than my Aria was, so the jump to the JC3+ may not be as big a difference as it was to me. But that being said, I'm very very impressed with this thing.
This is how I feel about my 20/20. Channel separation and stereo imaging galore.
yea--think if I got the itch to upgrade, it would be to replace the Jolida on my secondary setup. If I found a good deal on a 20/20 I'd consider that and move my insight upstairs.
Yeah I've never heard the 20/20 but I was thinking, just due to the similar construction and the manufacturers sound signature philosophies it probably has a very similar sound to the JC3+.
