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| looking at upgrading my tonearm from a triplanar Viewed under a high-powered microscope (Geoffrey's other profession has been in Laser Optics), even the highest spec metal bearings have a very irregular surface. That, of course, creates sticktion.The hardest metal bearings are not commercially a... | |
| The Anatomy of the Acapella Violon - shocking find Zombie thread come to eat your brains!! | |
| How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre Bdp24, the Aurios Pro Bearings I use did get mentioned by me earlier. They work fine.Paul at TRL was on me for years to buy a Scully and let him mod it. I would love to own a tape player but I have young kids and its just not practical.BTW, I spen... | |
| The best preamp without a doubt..in my experience ^^ getting a preamp to jump through all those hoops would be a trick. Balanced and single-ended are inherently incompatible for starters. to continue:Adjusting the phono input impedance is something only needed if the phono circuit is unstable wit... | |
| Solid state phono/linestage vs Tubes There are tube preamps that accept the phono cartridge as a balanced source using XLR connections. A nice advantage of that is the cable no longer plays a sonic role in the sound of the system. That's what the balanced line system is for after all... | |
| looking at upgrading my tonearm from a triplanar Hello Doug, I'm simply stating the theory. The bearing should have nothing to do with vibration from the cartridge.If the arm tube is properly damped and the effective mass is given proper attention it will be found that this is the case. You can ... | |
| How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre TheKong, its actually a pretty simple concept: A point has a large area at one end and a very small area at the other. So vibration at the large end can be focused into the point; vibration at the point is defocused at the large end. While not nea... | |
| How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre Agear, take a look at my post- especially the part about how our Scully lathe was built.Engineers who poo-poo this stuff have to somehow work out how to get past that... | |
| looking at upgrading my tonearm from a triplanar - What is the significance of the hardness of a tonearm's bearings? At the tonearm weights involved, that alone wouldn't seem to be important.The hardness is important- the more the bearing has the less sticktion. The size is also important- the s... | |
| Solid state phono/linestage vs Tubes The Manley phono stages have a semiconductor input and are not true all-tube phono sections. | |
| How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre Some General Rules: when to use squishies as opposed to points:All audio equipment benefits from damping.Squishies (ex.: Sorbathane) is useful when vibration is affecting the equipment via the shelf on which the equipment sits. It provides isolati... | |
| Solid state phono/linestage vs Tubes A tube phono section can be just as quiet as a solid state phono section if a stepup transformer is used.The advantage of a good tube phono section is that you can have a lot less ticks and pops if it is properly designed (this is a function of hi... | |
| How do you respond to this question? When I had cats and was playing vinyl they would sit in the listening chair (if I didn't get there first) and look to where the images in the soundstage were coming from. When I put on digital they would leave the room. | |
| Ringing new NOS tube, is it safe? Generally speaking, if a tube has problematic microphonics, a tube damper isn't going to help. | |
| How do you respond to this question? I play vinyl because it sounds better, so much so that the designer of the best digital system I've heard once said to me 'Digital has such a long way to go...". The best LPs push similar dynamic range and nearly all LPs have greater bandwidth tha... |