chakster
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| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again Good point about cheap parts. It is a given nowadays, however, that most electronic parts in gear from all countries have majority origin in China sadly, yet some are better than others and implementation is key.No one in Japan will use Chinese pa... | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again There are NO delay on custom check on export from Russia, never. It takes a few minutes, just scan of the parcel, nothing else. Import duties are important, not export. So when US custom inspect imported parcel there can be a delay, but only for 3... | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again That Russian seller has 100% positive feedback on ebay (and buyer fully protected by paypal), but some strange posters here still talking about scammers from Russia. Regarding shipping from Russia to USA I will give you one example, my own parcel ... | |
| Upgrading phono stage Comparing iPhono 2 to JLTi mk4 in my system I ended up using JLTi. But it depends what exactly would you like to upgrade? | |
| Replaced my Ortofon Blue stylus today via plug and play swap in seconds Everything about “rubber suspension falling apart” is 100% BS, all my cartridges are like new and if there could be such problem I will throw away such stylus, but it never happens, even when I compare 3 different samples of the same model (new or... | |
| Replaced my Ortofon Blue stylus today via plug and play swap in seconds Everything about “rubber suspension failing apart” is 100% BS, all my cartridges are like new and if there could be such problem I will throw away such stylus, but it never happens, even when I compare 3 different samples of the same model (new or... | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again When you pay with paypal you CAN ALWAYS RETURN anything without reason, if you don’t like it. This is paypal buyer’s protection, even if the seller do not want to accept return you can make paypal claim and return it and paypal will give you full ... | |
| Replaced my Ortofon Blue stylus today via plug and play swap in seconds Took a picture of the rarest NOS replacement styli from my vaults for cartridges like Grace LEVEL II, F14, AT-ML180 MicroRidge and MicroLine diamonds... Boron Pipe, Ruby, Beryllium and even Ceramic Pipe cantilevers... This is why I like MM type o... | |
| Do you let the turntable spin when putting down record and attach the clamp. To bad nobody makes a DD table with an adequate suspension and vacuum clamping with a platter thick enough to keep the cartridge away from the motorObviously you know nothing about reference Direct Drive turntables. Some of them are suspended like... | |
| Question on VTF (What should i adjust it to?) I bet you will not detect any difference between 1.3 - 1.6 tracking force by ears. Would you like to tell us what is your cartridge after all ? | |
| Do you let the turntable spin when putting down record and attach the clamp. If your turntable is delt-drive you can damage it this way. If it’s Direct Drive you can’t damage it, and you can change record and add/remove disc stabilizer on top of the record on the fly (with spinning platter if you like). I press the stop bu... | |
| Question on VTF (What should i adjust it to?) What is your cartridge model? | |
| re-tipping Dynavector17D? Thanks for the invitation! I wish I could bring a few NOS original Dynavector carts to compare, but I will have to cross the Atlantic first. | |
| New cartridge $500 range Hana is Excel Sound Inc. This is an old manufacturer or MM and MC cartridges under their own Brand (Excel Sound) and for other brands too. It’s affordable, but nothing special. Cartridges from Excel Sound were around since the 70’s. Watch factory ... | |
| New cartridge $500 range I not think that is true. The MM market will generally not support those prices. Actually I should say the high output market will not tolerate those prices. The most expensive High output cartridge I know of is The Voice by Soundsmith for $3000. ... |