adrianleewelch
Responses from adrianleewelch
| SUT experience It was nice to see input from everyone who replied . My posts are not exciting by any standards so I appreciated the exchanges. Thank you all. This forum is a very valuable tool. I don’t post a lot but I read here every night, typically for ab... | |
| SUT experience My system is likely very different sounding because I use a PA style horn sub, as well as horn speakers. It sounds a lot like a small venue. When I play a record, it feels and sounds like the house of blues. My sweeps in REQ wizard are not flat. N... | |
| SUT experience Exactly. As I sit here listening, I try to listen to the music and not the equipment but we all know that is hard to do | |
| SUT experience I’m following along. As pleased as I am currently, I think my next upgrade is the phono stage for sure. My turntables are 100% restored, my cartridges are where I want to be. My flea watt amps get too loud for my heavily treated room. I have a 21... | |
| SUT experience I don’t know all of the science for sure but one thing I do know with absolute certainty is that on my MOFI copy of Dire Straits Communique, which I have listened to more than any record that I own, I’m hearing fingertips on fretboards and nuances... | |
| SUT experience Well I suspected that the McIntosh phono stage left something to be desired. It was proven when the project bested it. This was an experiment in SUT and phono stages. I got all of them cheap enough that I won’t lose any money when I sell. I hoped... | |
| SUT experience Hey Lewm ! Yes your assumptions were correct as you described my signal path. Let me add some information that may clarify some things. I do have an SPU Synergy, an SPU Century 100th anniversary model, then the #1 spherical and #1 elliptical. I a... | |
| SUT experience I don’t know why it keeps auto correcting the Pro-Ject to Pro-next. I swear I’m literate. 😵💫 | |
| SUT experience @lewm The synergy cartridge is .5mv, whereas the century is .2, and the #1 carts are .18 When I first tried it, I had the SUT on 3, and the Pro-next on 65 and i literally thought I blew my speakers it was so distorted. At 10 ohms and 60 db m... | |
| SUT experience @elliott your reply was extremely informative though. I appreciate you sir !! I always stayed away from SUTs because I didn’t understand the math and the best way to match them with my cart. I have a sumiko blackbird, Ortofon SPU century, synergy... | |
| SUT experience Oh yea I mentioned earlier im using a project tube box MM phono pre at 60db gain into the line level input of the Mac. I want a better standalone phono preamp after I know with certainty what features I want. The pro-next was an inexpensive way t... | |
| SUT experience The preamp is a C47, not a 27. It’s a modern unit | |
| SUT experience Tighter bass and extended highs were the immediate improvements but soundstage is huge now | |
| SUT experience Using an Ortofon SPU synergy at the 10 ohm setting through a Pro-ject tube box sounds a lot better through my line stage than my MC input ever sounded | |
| Mono record sounds like stereo Yeah, that’s gonna be an interesting read because that SPU has a conical stylus I believe. So much smaller profile of my blackbird would not duplicate the problem. |