bpoletti
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| Using Maple Butcher Block Under a Turntable @bba - I'm cheap and lazy. Went to Amazon and picked up a maple (mable?) butcher block end grain board about the same size as my table. I have a few different materials to try under the board including a couple of different types / shapes / thic... | |
| Wet Cleaning records makes things worse? Think through your technique. Think through a distilled water rinse using a lint-free pad or cloth. But also look at Disk Doctor one-step non-rinse product. | |
| Static electricity pulled the rubber mat right off the Turntable! Sometimes it might be better to give less, rather than more information. | |
| Thorens Turntables Thorens has been around longer than many of us. They are Swiss, make excellent tables (depending on the model) and stand behind their products. ALL of their products. Their TD-124 is legendary and a very good performer. It's hard to tell how a... | |
| Static electricity pulled the rubber mat right off the Turntable! Do you have a ground wire from the TT chassis to ground? Maybe even the ground on the wall power socket? Might want to try a continuity check between the tt chassis / plinth and ground. | |
| What phono pre am I looking for? @chakster thou dost too much protest | |
| What phono pre am I looking for? @chakster "no longer with us"? Really? So that explains why you are hawking you r wares on this forum. Your credibility and objectivity just took a nosedive somewhere below zero. | |
| Phono cable recommendations - high performance good value cable @cleeds There is resonance in EVERYTHING! That resonance impacts sound quality and can interact with other components regardless of their isolated measurements.If you consider what a resonance is, then you can answer your own questions. I assume ... | |
| Phono cable recommendations - high performance good value cable It's all about cable resonances. The very small signal from the cart and from the transformer will and does generate resonances in all the components. A cable must either reduce the resonances or let them pass. Every cable hs different resonanc... | |
| Audio Research SP3-a1 For $3,000 you can get a used Herron VTSP-1a which will blow away the SP-3a. And most $200 phono stages better the early ARC preamps by a long shot. | |
| Cartridge or Pre Amp BTW, I find bi-polar transistors acceptable as long as they are medicated. | |
| Cartridge or Pre Amp @geoffkait You forgot the law about recycling tube vacuum.No mention about cleaning the vacuum.My personal taste leans toward the use of natural vacuum instead of synthetic vacuum. (I own a tanker car filled with liquified vacuum on a rail siding... | |
| Cartridge or Pre Amp @almarg Agreed. The Herron would be better matched to a preamp with a higher input impedance. Keith Herron would be a good source to determine whether changing tubes in a VTPH-2a would overcome a lower input impedance pre. | |
| Cartridge or Pre Amp @I listen to Herron Audio equipment and wonder why they are not priced in the $30,000+ range. | |
| Dynavector cartridges, old and new @chakster Thought I'd mention that cart in the context of your thread. I have heard some DVs that are quite good and some others that are... But that just proves that even in a single model of cart there can be variations in performance. Such ... |