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| Grado Epoch 3 Terry9: The Epoch tracks very well, no complaints. I think that less anti skate bias is better, at lease for my setup. Concerning Koetsu cartridges, I don’t have a great deal of experience. I have listened to the Onyx Platinum but it was not in m... | |
| Grado Epoch 3 Mglik: My experience with the Epoch is the lighter the load the better, therefore I would say 47k ohms, as does the manufacturer. raul: Thank you, I now firmly recall that I eschewed ceramics because of possible issues with noise. It is rewired... | |
| Grado Epoch 3 kinros: It is super quiet in the grooves and it does pull a ton of information out. I hear things on the record the same CD doesnt’ really seem to reproduce well. I have my loading at 47K ohms. I have found the higher settings is where the Epoch ... | |
| Grado Epoch 3 jpjones: I believe another reason I went with the jewels was due to some concerns around noise with the nitride or ceramic bearings (I think it was a concern with the ceramics) but as I stated it has been a minute and I don’t recall all of my con... | |
| Grado Epoch 3 noromance: You are correct concering proper run-in with audio gear. My unlce used to go through so much gear and then he would tell me how for instance one dac smoked the other. I stopped really putting any stock in his assertations because he m... | |
| Grado Epoch 3 So a correction or two. I went down to the cave to check the settings for the PH 77 and I have been running the Epoch 3 in MC mode (not MM/MC Hi as I mistakenly mentioned above) at 60dB of gain loaded at 47k ohm. I keep the display of the PH 77 of... | |
| Grado Epoch 3 tomic601: Thank you. I am glad you enjoyed it, typos and all. | |
| Grado Epoch 3 dogberry: I am definitely going to try running it as a MC on the PH77 tonight with different loading. I wanted to mention that going from 47k ohms to say 400 or 100 ohms is not actually "lower" loading, it seems counterintuitive but it is actuall... | |
| Grado Epoch 3 Please forgive my typos and the errant use of some commas in the original post. I should have proof read a bit better. The EPA 100 MK 2 was chosen specifically for the London Reference because of its unique adjustable damping system. | |
| Grado Epoch 3 Dover: Thank you. I am aware of the nitride bearings and almost went with them. There was some discussion that caused me to go with the jewels but it’s been a while and I don’t recall all of the reasons, but I think stiction was one of the main d... | |
| ifi iPhono 3 "Black Label" Anyone? spinninggroovez: I am so glad my report was of use to you. It is an exceptional piece. Besides my AMR PH 77 (big brother to the iPhono 3) and my Luxman EQ 500 I’ve added the DartZeel. It will be interesting to one day compare the DartZeel’s phono... | |
| Sade This Far I was so dissatisfied I decided to not go back for seconds. I’ll live with my original pressings, CD’s and Quobuz :) | |
| Museatex Bitstream vs Bidat Yes, 11 years is a long time. Your system sounds very nice. The Bidat and Bitstream imbue the music with a special presence (nothing to do with the presence region in audio spectrum parlance) that most dacs, regardless of cost seem to completely m... | |
| Has Roon’s native engine caught up to HQPlayer? In my rig Roon has totally supplanted HQP. HQP is awesome and an absolutely fantastic piece of genius software, but at this point Roon is handling all the lifting and sounding as good or better than many CD transports directly feeding my dac. | |
| Museatex Bitstream vs Bidat I know this thread has been quiet for a long time but I wanted to share my experience. I have owned the Bidat approximatley six differnet times. Some were modified and some were stock. They all sounded wonderful and better than most digital being ... |