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| Synergistic Red Fuse ... ... the fuse design can only have 3 possible outcomes: Allow the unit to operate as designed; Starve it of current or voltage lowering its performance;Raise the amount of current that can pass through the fuse, which would damage the unit if an in... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Thanks very much, Bill. I’ll definitely keep your suggestion in mind. And thanks also for your long-standing advocacy of the VTPH-2, which significantly contributed to my decision to purchase it a few months ago. In addition to its great sonics, b... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Thanks very much, Pani. I'm using the ART9 with a Magnepan Unitrac tonearm, which is a generally well regarded vintage arm from the 1980s that is suitable for use with cartridges having light to medium weight and medium to high compliance.Best re... | |
| Would frequency response of cartridge determine purchase? The paper work that came with cartridge has a performance graph and showed the units performance when tested at factory. I see in your thread from a few months ago that you are using the Clearaudio Concerto V2, a low output moving coil cartridge, ... | |
| Would frequency response of cartridge determine purchase? Are you sure that the load capacitance seen by the cartridge when you tested it wasn't too high? (The load capacitance seen by the cartridge being the sum of the capacitance of the phono cable, which is proportional to length, and the capacitance... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Hi Lew,My re-tipped F9E Ruby is Mr. Ledermann’s CL version, not the OCL version you have.Since I purchased my Herron VTPH-2 phono stage a few months ago I too was running it at 47K, with load capacitance being the Herron’s MM input capacitance of ... | |
| EAR 890 crackle and hum I see that your speakers have a ground terminal on the rear, in addition to the high frequency and low frequency + and - terminals, with the use of the ground terminal being described as "optional." This is just a wild guess, but if by any chance ... | |
| Basic Interconnect Question That can certainly be done, either with an adapter cable or with an RCA-to-XLR adapter. However I would advise against doing so, for at least two reasons. First, your amp is specified as having input impedances of 50K unbalanced/1K balanced. 1K... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... I'd like to extend my thanks to Pani and to all of the other posters who have provided comments on their experiences with the ART9. I recently purchased one, largely because of those comments, and although it is not yet close to being broken in I... | |
| Gain for VPI Companion with supplied Grado Statement Sonata 1.5mV Apparently, it is something new from Grado, a medium output moving iron.... Custom made Grado for VPI, 1.5 millivolt output.Good! Then I would feel just about certain that you'll have no problem.Regards,-- Al | |
| Gain for VPI Companion with supplied Grado Statement Sonata 1.5mV Cartridge output is 1.5mVFirst, I suspect that you mean 0.5 mv. As far as I am aware Grado has not produced any versions of the Sonata having rated outputs of 1.5 mv.Second, 54 db gain is much higher than is typically provided by phono stages inte... | |
| Ripping files and backups do not match? That’s almost certainly not a problem. The difference is probably related to differences between the drives in the "file system" and/or "cluster size" with which the drives have been formatted, which are not indicative of differences in the stored... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... Roger, I of course don’t question the innovative nature of your design, or the quality of the results. But to provide some perspective on the numbers that have been cited:A million is of course a 1 followed by 6 zeros.A billion is a 1 followed by ... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... Thanks, Geoff. I read through that page, and as I interpret it he's basically referring to how his design minimizes or eliminates phase jitter and other unwanted phase shifts and timing errors. Still not sure how that has anything to do with the... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... Same question for Al: do you think the polarity issue is bunk or only George’s list. As I alluded to in my post of 4:27 p.m., I believe that for the majority of recordings there is no polarity that is "correct," although one polarity may in some o... |