chakster
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| compliance Keep your horror stories for yourself @lewm if you don’t owm any of those. And BTW the OP cartridge is Technics MM from the 70’s (notorious for softened suspension). It’s been discussed million times, if you want to try some of the best MM (in per... | |
| I Have Airborne Feedback And Never Realized It...Till Now Audio-Technica designed pneumatic insulators (AT-616) long time ago and this is still the best solution for turntables under 60kg weight. | |
| compliance Nice, my advice is to upgrade your cartridge with something like AT-ML170, Grace LEVEL II, Victor X1II, Stanton SC-100 WOS, Pickering XSV/5000 .... They are all much better than your technics cartridge. | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again EMS is Air Mail only.Custom (export) inspection is just scan of the box, takes 5 min.The problem is available flight to USA. My recent parcels to L.A. or Miami took 7 days with EMS (very quick) | |
| Zyx mistracking issue Grace F9 is much better with genuine US-14 stylus, this is next generation of styli for F14 (fully compatible with F9). The goal of US-14 is MicroLine (ML) stylus tip. Sometimes it's hrad to understand what type of stylus Grace used, but when ML s... | |
| VINYL SUCKS! @emrofsemanon a physicist and record producer/engineer of note named tom dowd, a guy way smarter than me, didn't have many good things to say about phonographic recording and playback. Anyway, Tom Dowd recorded some top artists on Atlantic Records... | |
| Hum after replacing tonearm cable In external phono cable, especially used one, the problem can occur in the soldering joints, it can be inside RCA or DIN, each connector can be inspected and re-soldered. | |
| Borrowing equipment from dealers I don’t deal with dealers, prefer used equipment, never auditioned anything but cables (long time ago) , but buying them from dealers was not so smart move as the same used cables online are 70% cheaper. I don’t want to borrow anything from dealer... | |
| Hum after replacing tonearm cable I thought you arm was rewired internally too. Or you are talking about external cable only? | |
| I Have Airborne Feedback And Never Realized It...Till Now Good, normally you need much more and not only at first reflection points, probably you need some serious bass traps. | |
| Hum after replacing tonearm cable I hope your phono cable is shielded?Simple tests: 1) Disconnect tonearm ground wire from the phono stage and listen.2) Connect additional ground wire with stripped ends from your phono groung plug to tonearm metal part and listen. If the hum is go... | |
| I Have Airborne Feedback And Never Realized It...Till Now If so then you need a room treatment, order acoustic analysis of your room and buy absorbers, diffusers and bass traps for your room. Concrete floor is the worst material for listening room, if your walls are similar then it’s terrible. | |
| Selecting tonearm and cartridge.HELP Reed 3p is amazing, must be a great match for your Lyra. Not sure if they made anything heavier than my Reed (12 inch and about 18g)? For Koetsu you could use something like Ikeda. | |
| Amethyst versus Nagaoka MP-150/MP-200 As always, this is the law of audiogon threads | |
| Cartridge for my friend Ortofon is great, especially when you read something like this. Quality control :) |