atmasphere
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| Direct drive/rim drive/idler drive vs. belt drive? If a turntable company has succeeded in making several versions of a turntable, essentially with different drives, while at the same time keeping the platter pad and platter signatures exactly the same, I would agree that the differences one heard... | |
| Direct drive/rim drive/idler drive vs. belt drive? Jb0194, I think they have advantages if your system will allow them, in controlling warp. Since the platter pad controls the LP's resonance signature, the ring won't do much to help- it will merely insure that the coloration is consistent across t... | |
| Direct drive/rim drive/idler drive vs. belt drive? Axel, I regard differences in dynamics as a coloration, just like tonality and soundstage. All are **definitely** aspects of platter pad vinyl resonance control (or lack thereof). | |
| Triplanar RCA out to Balanced out for MP-1 Nandric, you speakers are simply in no danger regardless of what you do with the arm. It all has to do with what you do with the volume control :) | |
| Direct drive/rim drive/idler drive vs. belt drive? I've been working with a modified form of the old Empire table for some years now. It has a very powerful motor that has a lot of torque, runs at high speed and has a lot of flywheel action. Years ago I ran an electronics service center- while the... | |
| Triplanar RCA out to Balanced out for MP-1 Lewm and Nandric, this is why I recommend that the tone arm ground wire and the shield both be tied to pin 1 of the XLR. No hum problems! I have even used Kimber wire between the arm and preamp (using an SME V, not a Triplanar) and no hum at all.A... | |
| Pick 2... Ohm WMT,ML Source,Zu Druid,Gallo Ref 3.1 We've played the Druids in a variety of situations. It does help them to have some power behind them, even if you don't use it. They work quite well on solid state too (I am partial to tubes of course :) Sounds to me like you will need to do some ... | |
| Triplanar RCA out to Balanced out for MP-1 Hi Nandric, tie the ground connection of the arm to pin 1 of the XLR. If the shield has 2 conductors inside, then the shield will tie to pin 1 of the XLR also. That way you get a proper balanced connection from the arm to the preamp. | |
| Help with final choice of efficient speakers You might also consider the Audiokinesis speakers- they are highly resolved and easy to drive. Duke is conservative about his ratings, compared to a lot of other manufacturers. | |
| ICE amps vs analog amps for bass The Legacy Studio monitors are Voltage Paradigm devices. So if you are looking for better bass on them, I would look into placement that allows you to take advantage of corners in the room, shorten the speaker cables if you can, stuff like that. | |
| What do you see as the downside of tubes? We ran tube-based regulation for years. I'm as a big a fan of tubes as anybody, but when we developed a proprietary regulator for high voltage, it was **immediately** so much better than the tube circuits that there was no going back.There are a l... | |
| ICE amps vs analog amps for bass Sgr, if your speakers are 98 db, its very likely that they will not play very good bass using an amplifier with a high damping factor.The reason is that a high damping factor is synonymous with amplifiers that can double the power as impedance is ... | |
| Need Help Choosing a Tube Preamp for a Classe Amp If you can go with balanced, it will reduce the sonic artifact of the interconnect cables. If done right, balanced line will allow you to go with very inexpensive cables with no sonic artifact at all. I've seen $85.00 cables (25 feet long) replace... | |
| Why Linear Tracking never took off? I got my first linear tracker, a Garrard Zero-100, in 1974. When I first saw their ad I thought they had the Holy Grail. After getting the machine, I wished dearly for 2 things: that it was manual operation from the ground up, and that they had sp... | |
| Need Help Choosing a Tube Preamp for a Classe Amp Does the Classe have a balanced input? Would you like balanced operation? |