atmasphere
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| Cartridge Opinions - Sorry At least from a technical standpoint. If it is not over-tightened then it is free to move. If it is free to move then there must be an interference gap, however small, between the moving parts.If so the runout can't be detected. I guess we'll ... | |
| Eico ST-70 integrated amp They had a JJ Electronics one that specs better, but needs a clamp mount.Those are good parts and hold up well. Its not that hard drilling the mounting holes for the clamps. The clamps are 1 3/8" diameter. | |
| Eico ST-70 integrated amp Good! The Sprague parts were good but long past their freshness date :) If you can so the work yourself you can save a lot. You can find aluminum can-style 'multi-caps' at CE Distribution (www.cedist.com) Many of them are made on the same machin... | |
| Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active I do not consider the use of the rather heavy secondary load in addition to a Zobel as a sonically acceptable solution. FWIW they *are* designed for that. I totally agree regarding your comments about bad core design- my comments presume a dece... | |
| Is a Linn Sondek LP12/Lingo/Ekos with a Cirkus update, the last turntable I’ll ever buy? If I had only one turntable to buy and live with for the rest of my life it would be a new Technics. They are more speed stable than most 'high end' audio turntables and also really low colorations due to vibration. IMO/IME their biggest weaknesse... | |
| 70’s rock pressings. Witch equipment deserve? I have never seen a Grace, Stanton, Pickering, Audio-Technica, Pioneer, Garrott ... with softened or stiff rubber damper in my life. I have seen this multiple times with Shure, Pickering, Stanton, AudioTechnica, Empire, Grado but some of the othe... | |
| Cartridge Opinions - Sorry A gimbal set-up must always have some free-play in its bearings, otherwise the arm wand would be unable to move. This statement is false. If a bearing in a gimbal system is over-tightened the arm can still move but a lot depends on the bearing. A... | |
| Tube myths Not knowing the history, of the tube, it takes, a true emission tester, that the applied voltage, can be varied, and a working knowledge(experience) to determine, to any truthful degree, that a tube is NOS. Mutual conductance testing, is a grea... | |
| Not sure of term but I notice some distortion/vibration coming out the speaker port? Port noise is well known, especially with smaller speakers where bass signals too low for the port to be effective are present.It could be that the screws holding your drivers are loose, worth a check and see. But otherwise the speaker is simply b... | |
| Lots of bass at walls, lack of bass in center of room/listening position Lots of bass at walls, lack of bass in center of room/listening position@smodtactical This is the classic description of a standing wave in the room.While room treatment will help a little bit, its effect is marginal. You have two solutions both ... | |
| Eico ST-70 integrated amp The power amp circuit is a good design- enough so that others in high end audio make power amps that are the same circuit.If this amp is indeed stock, other than to see that it works, don't run it until the power supply filter capacitors have been... | |
| Cartridge Opinions - Sorry I do not know which Grado I ran back in the 80s. I do remember that the Pickering was a 4500. The Stanton was the 881. I got it next door at Sound of Music next to where I worked at the Allied Radio Shack. That is also where I bought my Technics S... | |
| Cartridge Opinions - Sorry In earlier threads on audiogon, when I asked about your MM cartridges, I never seen any top models even from Grado, AT, Pickering, Stanton or Shure mentioned in your answers. Yes- that's all true. But- this appears in contradiction toLow model ... | |
| 70’s rock pressings. Witch equipment deserve? Grado GOLD is relatively cheap cartridge, i like Grado too, but by reference Grado is Signature model from Joseph Grado (model XTZ). Yes, we’re running one of those in our shop turntable. No one would buy all those expensive vintage cartridges if ... | |
| Cartridge Opinions - Sorry Reading all these I want to remind that Ralph's experience with MM cartridges is very limited to certain mainstream models, I already asked about those models and never seen any serious MM in his list. @chakster pretty funny! just sort of an FYI... |