chakster
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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Watch the latest Peter Ledermann’s (SoundSmith) lecture on RMAF 2018 about energy transfer, his talks about cartridges starts at 19:00 in this video, again MC versus MI design. Very interesting! In his opinion MC is the worst! The video has been u... | |
| Best MM? It doesn't matter, one of the best MM is still Audio-Technica AT-ML180 :) | |
| Beautiful Vicoustic's flagship Wavewood panels for room tretment. Anyone? Seems like nobody cares about room tretment. Funny, but i’ve noticed even professional reviewers does not have room tretement at all, except carpets on the floor. I have ordered Vicoustic Wavewood absorber/diffuser pannels from these guys. | |
| technics sl 1200 gae Sure, you can upgrade G, GR or even GAE by changing the tonearm (if you want), but why not buy used SP-10mkII or new SP-10R if you’re looking for higher quality turntables? You are limited with a choice of tonearm for SL1200GAE plinth, but you hav... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? Modern High-End tonearms are cheaper on used market, so everyone can find and buy them at least for 50% of the price someone paid for new one. And there is no loss in performance if they are used (depends on condition). When it comes to a new tone... | |
| technics sl 1200 gae It’s great for all genres, but the cartridge is more important with GAE if you want to improve it. It a brand new High-End turntable why do you want to mod it like people do with an old SL1200? It's already night and day. Which cartridge do you use? | |
| Preamp help for First Watt J2/ZU Omens combo Stick to Nelson Pass desingThis is all you need: First Watt B1 preamphttp://www.firstwatt.com/b1.html | |
| JVC tt-101 repair My advice for you @gary7 is to find Audio-Technica pneumatic footers. | |
| JVC tt-101 repair I’ve been using 3 Victor UA-7045 in the past with MM cartridges like Grace F-14, Victor X-1II, Audio-Technica AT20SLa, AT-ML170 and AT-ML180 mainly. I think it’s time to try UA-7082, now i have even additional sub weight for heavier vintage MC car... | |
| Preamp help for First Watt J2/ZU Omens combo If you need balanced preamp look for Pass Labs Aleph P mkII with remote. For the bass just look for Zu Audio Undertone mkII SUB :)I wouldn’t use any tube gear with First Watt amp, my previous tube amps were a nice WLM Minueta (with the best NOS Te... | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) @phaser you should try an original Micro Seiki CU-500 gunmetal mat on Technics. It’s much thicker and much heavier than CU-180. Also extremely rare compared to CU-180. I don’t have Technics anymore, but still have CU-500, sadly it’s too heavy for ... | |
| Gotta love Nelson Pass Hi GeorgeActually i have F2 upgraded to F2J by Nelson Pass for previous owner.MOSFETs replaced with JFETsInput impedance is 50k Ohms which is stated in the original manual that i have on hands. But this is F2 manual, not F2J. I realized that F2J i... | |
| F7 ?speakers @bakalovb I looked at Druids, they are very interesting!But I have a similar system already. I don’t think so, your speakers are completely different in every aspect, first of all they are small bookshelf, very low efficient (87dB), 2 way speake... | |
| Gotta love Nelson Pass Seems like it become addictive when someone buying First Watt stuff. I decided to buy another preamp for my FW F2J power amp. Soon i will be able to compare my FW B1 Buffer Preamp and Pass Aleph L. After 7 month of using my B1 i realized that i ne... | |
| Preamp help for First Watt J2/ZU Omens combo I use First Watt B1 (buffer preamp) for my First Watt F2J (current source) power amp.My speakers are Zu Druid (101db) and while the power amp is less than 5 watt, i use only 10-20% of the volume control (in my big living room) on FW b1 with my pho... |