banquo363
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| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? John47: you must have the most heavily modded LSA in existence. It would be interesting to a/b it with a stock version. | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? No worries, B_limo. John47: did replacing the rca's make an appreciable difference? I've been wanting to have that done for the longest time. I wish I possessed your soldering skills. | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? B_limo: several posts ago, I already linked to the wall wart that I own. George speculated that it is an smp. I've searched and searched and there's no published info to confirm or deny. George suggests the AM radio test, but I'm not buying an AM ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? fwiw: after some more hours of testing, I've confirmed to my satisfaction my initial observations.First, the appearance of a difference in volume persists. The wallwart renders the LSA brighter and moves the stage forward, and I believe this is, i... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I'll probably get a lot of guffaws over this next revelation, but the power cord I will be using is a Shunyata Annaconda Helix,which was sitting here doing nothing but collecting dust.No guffaws from me, just envy: I wish I had stuff like that jus... | |
| TT-101 turntables…or any DD decks Lewm: I was the one who suggested resoldering the tracings. I did so because my tt101 had the exact same problems you describe and that's how my tech fixed it. He told me he took the 'brute force' and resoldered them all. Did you and Bill do that?... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Well, good grief: I didn't know I was flooding my system with grunge all this time. Shows you how good my ears are :). On the bright side, I look forward to hearing what the LSA can really accomplish. | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I believe I own this wallwart. I don't own a radio, so can't do the test. | |
| TT-101 turntables…or any DD decks Sorry to hear about the 'persisting problem', Lewm. Can you describe what it is and tell us who you sent it to? There exists a higher authority than Thalmann? I'd like to know his/her name for future reference. | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I'm in the US, George. I have no idea what kind of wallwart I have, nor do I remember how I came to acquire it (or whose advice I sought). I certainly had no expectations going in, so I myself am surprised by the differences I heard. But I used it... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I guess I'll go first. I received the TeraDak power supply today and played with it for 3 hours or so. The first thing to note is that it works as it should. That's more than can be said for the battery I ordered for the LSA when I first got it ye... | |
| Buying A Cartridge Direct From Japan griffithds: I use this service. At the very least, they don't charge you a ridiculous fee for unsuccessful bids. But I chose it over jauce because there are no auction deposits required: if you win an auction, the total amount including fees is pa... | |
| TT-101 turntables…or any DD decks As you know, the electronics all hang on the metal assembly that also contains the motor per se. Are these "washers" accessed by trying to remove the motor from the rest of the metal structure?Yes, Lewm. | |
| TT-101 turntables…or any DD decks But I did inspect the spacing around the platter, between the edge of the platter and the escutcheon, and I did not see any area of contact between the two. Yeah, I didn't note any point of contact either, that's why it puzzled me for a couple of ... | |
| TT-101 turntables…or any DD decks I doubt it's the bearing, Lew. I once heard a noise roughly of the kind you describe (it didn't sound like a pulsation, but I could hear it every 2nd or 3rd rotation). The noise was due to the platter scraping against the cover to the control pane... |