antigrunge2

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Cartridge ISOLATION; What Say You?
@rauliruegas,Touché! 
Ethernet and USB cables
It‘s not just the quality of cables, it is also majorly their length. This applies particularly to USB where RFI/EMI incursion is a major problem. For what it‘s worth, I had major benefits from using a short (25cm) Intona Reference cable between s... 
SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best?
auditorium23 make a very highly rated SUT for low output MCs 
Tube dampener questions
Tube dampeners work best if the amp has good vibration control itself. That requires an effective combination of feet and tube sockets. In my experience EAT on small signal tubes and Duende Critura on everything else work best and their contributi... 
Cartridge ISOLATION; What Say You?
@atmasphere,MCs point on transmitting vibration from the cartridge body to the tonearm is seminal. The design of The Cartridgeman‘s Insulator is precisely addressing that issue while avoiding your concern of cartridge displacement by choosing a po... 
LinLai WE 300B or the LinLai Global Elite Permaloy 300B tubes ?
At the risk of further complicating the issue: while both Takatsuki and EAT comfortably beat my TJ Full Music meshplates, in my Wavac EC300b there is a strong effect dependent on the recifier tube used. While the EATs prefer to be driven by Tungso... 
Streamer/Server to replace Innuos Zenith
@verdantaudio,A Nucleus as an upgrade for a Zenith Mk3? Are you antepodean or why is your world completely upside down? The Nucleus isn’t even in the same SQ ballpark. 
Streamer/Server to replace Innuos Zenith
Just out of interest: what‘s the problem on IOS? I have been using mine without any issues. 
Cartridges with that musical coherence - having heard it, I need to learn more
Zyx Universe, rien ne va plus 
What are your top three live concerts of all time?
Would have loved to listen to Johnny Cash in St. Quentin, sadly didn‘t get in😂 
Cartridge ISOLATION; What Say You?
I hve tried the Isolator on Hadcock, Mørch, Scheu and Dynavector arms using various Zyx MC cartridges. In each case it provided a more than subtle improvement.Millercarbon is right to point out the deleterious vibration transmission from the cartr... 
Innuos Zen Mini Mk3 w/PSU |VS| Lumin U1 Mini
Get a Zenith mk3 and the answer will bbe obvious 
DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend
My experience withh delta Sigma dacs is that they benefit substantially from better clocking. The preference for R2R evaporates if you get a 10m reference clock controlling the upsampling DAC. Just a thought…. 
Air Tight ATM-300R or Shindo Cortese 300B
@three_easy_payments. I run Duevel Bella Lunas with Murata ES103bs and chose Wavac over Shindo, Audionote and Yamamoto for better control of that speaker combo. 
Air Tight ATM-300R or Shindo Cortese 300B
Shindo tends to work best in all-Shindo setups. With the Luxman I’d tend to lean towards Airtight. I myself have a Wavac EC300b and rate it very highly.