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| Do You Have a Favorite Disk to Set VTA/SRA? During the cutting process, the cutting needle lasts about 10 hours and then must be replaced. A worn needle cuts a noisy groove. Many people don't know this but if the cutter needle is set up right, the resulting lacquer cut is so quiet that no m... | |
| anyone tried psvane 12at7 Toothman, its the 2 tubes to the rear on the left side of each circuit board in the MP-1 that are the most important. So that would be 4 tubes instead of 8 if you just want to try them. | |
| Stand out phono stages Oldears, I also recommend tubes and passive EQ. Preamps with passive EQ often exhibit less surface noise from the LP, even though they might have the same bandwidth. | |
| atmasphere 6as7g output tubes. Sabai, you may be confusing the driver tubes (6SN7s) with the power tubes (6AS7G). I've been doing this a long time- I don't know if I have ever even heard of Mullard 6AS7Gs. | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth Halcro, I think I see where you are having difficulty. The FR-66 is not a "very high-mass" tone arm- although its on the high side for sure, but not 'very' high. Additionally, its tracking weight method uses a spring, which can reduce the effectiv... | |
| atmasphere 6as7g output tubes. If you want nice 6SN7s, we have gotten really good feedback on the Psvanes, Sophias and TJ Music tubes. This applies to the amps and the preamps. | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth ^^ the above seems to read as if there is confusion between the resonance of the arm tube with the mechanical resonance of the arm mass combined with the cartridge and its compliance. The two are different.The adage that rules are made to be broke... | |
| RMAF 2014 Observations We had 'Into the Labyrinth' in high definition on our server. I did not hear anyone playing Dead Can Dance other than myself in our room. | |
| How does a step up transormer affect sound- George's advice is really sound- if you exceed 50% of the rating of the stepup/isolation transformer, it will degrade the AC power by adding distortion to the AC line. | |
| atmasphere 6as7g output tubes. The American 6AS7Gs can have issues, although we have found that the 6AS7GAs are the ones that are most problematic.Here is what we know about the American tubes so far:1) you get best results if your amplifier is a Mk3 or later.2) If NOS, the tub... | |
| Pre + Amplifier Recommendation Schubert, you might check with the manufacturer to see if removing and installing tubes while the unit is on is a problem. With our preamps, as long as you take certain precautions, its easily done. But I can imagine not all preamps are like that.... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth Many arm manufacturers provide a dubious figure for their arm's Effective Mass whilst a large number provide no figures whatsoever....😷The cartridge manufacturers simply provide a 'design target' for their compliance figures which can vary signifi... | |
| Why blind listening tests are flawed A customer of ours has been using a microphone to measure the results in his system as a result of minor changes he has done. He's on to something- you can clearly see how distortion has changed due to his changes. http://www.audioasylum.com/forum... | |
| Pre + Amplifier Recommendation You can't measure hiss on a tube tester- the best way to test tubes for noise is to listen to them. Or get known quiet tubes from a source (the manufacturer of the unit?) to send you a set. eBay is a good source of tube testers. There are some mod... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth Henry, Its more than being about warped records, if you read inbetween the lines of Kirkus's post above- if the effective mass is incorrect, you can actually have the stylus jump out of the groove of a perfectly flat, concentric LP.An excellent ex... |