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| Your Forever Pieces? What and Why? The SOTA Sapphire turntable and Magnepan Unitrac tonearm I purchased in 1983 still work as well as the day I bought them. Given the prices of high quality turntables and tonearms these days; the hassle and risk that would be involved in sending th... | |
| Few technical questions about an Ortofon MC cart on a Scout 2... Thanks for the nice words, gentlemen. Glad I was helpful.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Few technical questions about an Ortofon MC cart on a Scout 2... Excellent!Regarding capacitive loading, with the possible exception noted below I would ignore that statement in the manual and go with whatever sounds best to you. As I mentioned earlier the capacitive load applied to the cartridge will include t... | |
| My first Tube Amplifier My first tube amplifier was a pair of Marantz Model 2 monoblocks, ca. 1958, which I found and purchased locally in the early 1990s. When operated in triode mode, which provided a maximum of about 18 or 20 watts, and with speakers having benign im... | |
| Reel to reel deck directly to power amp ? Ralph hasn’t responded yet about the dbm question I raised, so I did some further research and it appears that what I said was correct. dbm in this context represents decibels above 1 milliwatt into 600 ohms. So the voltage numbers I calculated we... | |
| Reel to reel deck directly to power amp ? Almarg, if you’re saying that .775 volts is enough to drive an amp, you’re more mistaken than the rest. I certainly didn’t say that, and I was not addressing the Technics deck you referred to. (Although there are in fact some amps that can be driv... | |
| Reel to reel deck directly to power amp ? I took a look at the manual for the Studer A810 that was mentioned in the OP. (The manual can be found at hifiengine.com if one is registered at the site).Depending on the version of the deck and on how the magnetic flux reference level is defined... | |
| Few technical questions about an Ortofon MC cart on a Scout 2... P.S: When you make that change, though, you'll be significantly increasing the signal voltage that is received by the phono stage, so per my earlier comments you may find that the low gain setting of the phono stage (left channel switch 9 and rig... | |
| Few technical questions about an Ortofon MC cart on a Scout 2... ... switch 2 on the left side is the 47ohm resistive load, which is the only dip I have in the down position. That’s the problem, or at least most of it!! The 47K load that is recommended for the cartridge means 47,000 ohms, not 47 ohms (which wou... | |
| Few technical questions about an Ortofon MC cart on a Scout 2... After looking at the manual for your phono stage I suggest the following:1) Switches 1 through 4 for the left channel should absolutely/definitely/positively be set to the up position, which will provide the 47K load impedance your cartridge requi... | |
| Thoughts on wireless subwoofer. Great news, Uberwaltz, and congratulations! And a great quote about the squirrel. I'll have to remember that one for my own purposes :-)Best regards,-- Al | |
| BEST MALE VOCAL EVER Good call, Gary (Gsm18439). Without contradicting what I said in my previous post, I'll second Paul Robeson.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Spam threads gone wild... I agree with Elizabeth’s post just above. And allowing members to create new threads only after some number of responses have been made to existing threads is unlikely to be very effective in controlling spam anyway. At the computer-related forum ... | |
| Spam threads gone wild... Forum spam is a pervasive issue on just about any forum, that can be very hard to deal with. In general there is no hacking or backdoor that is involved. The spammers simply register and do their deed. As a volunteer moderator at a computer-relate... | |
| Basic/mid fi headphone advice. @n80, my curiosity having been piqued by this discussion, I’ve just performed an experiment that seems relevant.First, I listened to some dynamically compressed pop music (i.e., music having relatively little volume variation during the course of ... |