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| Unipivot vs Linear Tracking Well, my system is quite resolving, and in no way, shape or form can I hear the sound staging on my best record wander into a noticeable superior presentation around the tangency points and out again. I would imagine that there is a threshold effe... | |
| Unipivot vs Linear Tracking Well, I have never come across an article or study which has compared an actual pivot arm with a linear tracker with a given cartridge and how they would measure on a test record compared to each other in a lab setting. This might not be the perfe... | |
| Unipivot vs Linear Tracking Linear trackers are based on the theory that tangency is the most important feature of the arm and that the linear tracking arm perfectly mimics the geometry of the cutting head of the master, whereas pivoted arms inherently display tracking disto... | |
| Review: Da Vinci Grandezza Reference Tonearm Thanks, FF, the system looks like a rococo vomit, you sure can't walk into any store and buy it. However, it represents years of experimentation and assembly. It works very well for me. | |
| Review: Da Vinci Grandezza Reference Tonearm Hi, Jfrech,That is hard to answer, but I think the SME 20 would audibly honor the Grandezza arm just fine and vice versa. I don't think it would overwhelm the difference between the 30 and 20, which to me is significant. | |
| Clearaudio Outer Limit on SME 20? The Benn clamp is centered by the record itself, it has a lip for this purpose. The SME 10 platter is just slightly larger than the SME 20, but less than the 12 inch diameter of the LP, so it should work in theory. I haven't done it, though, so it... | |
| Clearaudio Outer Limit on SME 20? Same bearing as in the larger SME 30, which has a much heavier platter, so no, no damage. I have a Bob Benn clamp for the SME 20, but that can be used with any table whose platter does not exceed the diameter of the record. I found it gave a much ... | |
| Sleeper older preamp with great phono..... Yamaha C-70 vintage | |
| What's the oldest piece of gear in your system? 26 tubes, which until I plugged them in, probably haven't seen electricity since the 40's. Hogan 300b amp, which probably has OPT's from the 50's or 40's, and Akai el84 mono blocks taken from old tape recorder, from the 60's or 70's. | |
| Lyra Titan i with a Manley Steelhead....settings?? With coil inputs, the optimal power transfer occurs when the impedance of coil input is as close as possible to the cartridge impedance, which with the Steelhead would be the 25 setting for a Lyra with internal impedance of 5.5. With MM input and ... | |
| Lyra Titan i with a Manley Steelhead....settings?? I wouldn't agree to avoid the coils on the Steelhead, I love the coiled coupled inputs, but I have tubed system. I hooked up solid state amps a couple of times, and what sounded good through tubed amps sounded almost phosphorescent with the solid ... | |
| Do Graz ribbons for Apogee sound better? Yes, the XLM in particular are much better than stock for the MRT. | |
| Report from Rocky Mountain AudioFest Graz in Australia now has the Apogee brand name and has a couple of models, the most recent being a brand new from the ground up/ more powerful magnets Duetta Encore which was supposed to be at the show but didn't make it in time. Rich, who was at... | |
| Stereophile - MF Supercharger article-add 550W/ch. Although it is probably similar to using a tubed preamp as a driver, the concept does make some sense. Although something is going to be changed in the translation, the article states that the interface between the driving tube amp and the MF amp ... | |
| Analysis Audio planar owners ? I have Apogees, but the Apogee user's group occasionally discusses the Analysis speakers.Analysis Audio has upgraded a few years ago a problematic rubber support system on their bass ribbons to be much more reliable and not to degrade as on some o... |