billstevenson
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| What are the most balanced relatively neutral cartridges at each price level ? Not my reference point, never was even back in the day when I had tape decks and recorded live bands. For me references are musical instruments, performances, people I am familiar with. I know what a Yamaha C7 sounds like and if in doubt I can l... | |
| Impedance Loading for SS Hyperion Yes with my Consolidated 10:1 it would be 470, with my Bob's devices 5:1 it is 1,880. With no SUT it is 47,0000. My phono stage works any of these. | |
| What are the most balanced relatively neutral cartridges at each price level ? Do you mean to tell me the SME V is not still considered a reference tonearm? I must be seriously out of touch. Please define what you mean by reference. | |
| What are the most balanced relatively neutral cartridges at each price level ? Oh, I forgot to mention the element of subjectivity. One man’s meat is another man’s poison. My absolute favorite mono cartridge is the 2M Mono SE, which is the mono version of the 2M Black. I prefer it to a $2,000 MC that shall go nameless so ... | |
| What are the most balanced relatively neutral cartridges at each price level ? I don't know how to answer this question. Maybe start with measurements. Frequency response, distortion, and channel separation? I believe doing that leads nowhere. To start I compared my Cadenza Black to my ART20. They are both balanced, neut... | |
| Impedance Loading for SS Hyperion I can use a MC input and load it to whatever value I want, or use a MM input which is what I use when I use an SUT. The latter is my most often chosen approach. | |
| Audio Technica AT-ART1000X I had an ART 1000 and a Hyperion and was trying to decide which one to buy. I mounted them in two identical headshells for the comparison using my SL1200GAE. As far as I know the only difference between your arm and mine is that mine is magnesiu... | |
| Impedance Loading for SS Hyperion Actually my Hyperion has been used with 47K since forever. It just sounds better. | |
| Record Cleaning Using Vacuum Machine for Cleaning and Ultrasonic for Final Rinse Leaving the record slightly damp from the Teritol cleaning in the VPI seems to provide the reduction in surface tension in the rinse step in the HumminGuru. Alternatively, the surfactant that is supplied by HumminGuru is also effective. In my op... | |
| Record Storage Problem Interesting feedback. I was first schooled on the problem while a student at the University of Washington. I bought all my records at Standard Record & HiFi, whose owner, Mrs. Smith, was quite firm in advising all clients to do a few things ... | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? Funny story in this regard. My Maine Coon cat, Ben, lived to be 18 years old. He would sit and attentively listen to music with me by the hour, his head moving back and forth, ears perking up responsively etc., but he would consistently leave th... | |
| Record Cleaning Using Vacuum Machine for Cleaning and Ultrasonic for Final Rinse I was in a hurry and did not explain myself well. The record is taken out of the HumminGuru after the final rinse and placed back on the Cylcone turntable. The top side is vacuum dried. The record is removed and turned over, but before placing ... | |
| Record Cleaning Using Vacuum Machine for Cleaning and Ultrasonic for Final Rinse The procedure is basically covered in Niel's book. My cmments are specific to my setup and equipment. First, it takes typically 4.5-6 minutes per record for the dirty record procedure and it takes about 3.5-4 minutes per record for the clean rec... | |
| Vinyl playback - lack of bass? There are a lot of variables. The mastering of every recording is different. Many, if not most recordings, and especially digital streams are compressed. Phono cartridges are not perfectly linear. There are extra stages of amplification in the... | |
| High Performance Moving Iron Cartridge Candidates? Among a slew of cartridges my long time favorite has been a SoundSmith Hyperion, but mine is low output and I use an SUT that cost as much as it did. Not to mention two sets of interconnects. I don't think that is what you want. I also often tu... |