atmasphere
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| How to go from RCA to XLR? Al, your descriptions and explanations are dead on. | |
| Smooth treble In my book 'smooth' is two things- a lack of high frequency emphasis (however we are not talking about anything being rolled off), and a lack of odd-ordered harmonics, which is the source of 'jagged' sound that others here have referred to.Odd-ord... | |
| Loading for Air Tight PC-1 Supreme If the preamp comes set up with a stepup transformer, about the only means available is to load the secondary of the SUT. If set up right, the load will load the cartridge and the transformer for optimal results. IME things are rarely 'set up righ... | |
| How to go from RCA to XLR? Noslop, the news you got is erroneous! If one of the phases is not present, the gain of the amp may be reduced by 6 db, but there will be no loss in power! Whoever told you that really has no idea how this stuff works. | |
| Ultimate test of your system image We use Amused to Death on LP to set up our speakers at shows. | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Hi Lew, yes, I was referring to the EPA-100. My friend has used one for a while, only because he's not had the funds to replace it. He has one of those 'Mod Squad' versions, which was considerably better than the original, which he also has. So I'... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Lew, I was talking about a Pioneer receiver, not the table. I remember some of the Pioneer tables were not too bad, but the arms left a lot to be desired, as did that heavy Technics arm that was often found on the SP10 and SL1100s.I always wanted ... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Downunder, that's one of the OEM plinths for the Technics, the same as my friend has. If you want my opinion, it sucks- the arm board is resonant and has a cavity to help the resonance. It is purely built for looks and would look good alongside a ... | |
| Ground Loop Issue 427 Hi Spencer, everything you mentioned just now is consistent with RF problems, how the amp behaves with shorted inputs, interconnects, etc.Some RF beads and grid stop resistors at the input of the amp might take care of it and improve the sound at ... | |
| Vandersteen Model 7s? I had breakfast with Richard at RMAF, he showed me a cone made from the new material (he had a patent pending on it at the time). It was quite impressive- amazingly stiff and super light. He said that the first breakup on the woofer was at 18KHz i... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III I think lead would be a bad move (toxic and its not very strong, certainly not rigid)- if it were me, I would design a plinth from solid machined aluminum (like we did for the old Empire 208), and then create a sandwich of dissimilar materials- an... | |
| Ground Loop Issue 427 Spencer, low level hum is a common problem if you are putting your ear to the speaker. SETs usually use a directly-heated cathode, which is to say that the filament of the tube and the cathode are the same thing. This means that you have to have a... | |
| Best matching phono stage with Zyx Universe cartr. We've been using the ZYX Universe with our preamps (MP-3 and MP-1) for the last two years. The cartridge has proven to be one of the best tracking cartridges we've heard- on the Triplanar I've yet to encounter an LP that will produce even the slig... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Lew, you got it right. Here is the issue- somehow, you need the arm to transduce what is on the LP. In order to do that, there must be no play between the surface of the platter and the cantilever of the cartridge.To that effect, the arm must have... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III I've listened to the MkII for close to 30 years now- one of my best friends bought his new. It is very nice, but at least in the case of his machine there is one flaw that both of us have noticed- the plinth does not include the mount for the arm,... |