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| Ever Damage A Stylus Using Cleaning Brush? How to clean with a stylus brush. Free the arm from the armrest/lock and leave the cart between rest and platter. Lower the lift and allow the arm to drop to its lowest level in that open space. The arm will now be free to move upwards in respo... | |
| Phono Stage Amp Good proposal to connect 200wpc. If this solves problem, it exonerates the TT and front end. @whyduhitme Starting again here. You don't get the fuzz on other inputs than phono. So try a different phono amp as I note the MA252 has no MC input... | |
| Paper cone drivers/natural materials @ghdprentice I have a few Rolexes, Submariner types. They all keep good time. The best at 2s/day and not serviced for 15 years. | |
| Phono Stage Amp @ditusa and Jason have nailed it. Nothing to do with cart or phono stage. Or acoustic feedback. Or TT isolation!! 15w of Cary fleapower won't drive the the 87dB grossly inefficient Totems. So it sounds fine when underdriven but is probably bl... | |
| Are You Happy With Your Phono Preamp? @cleeds Perhaps a bit like the 'anticipator circuits' that Krell built from the late 1990s after they stopped selling pure Class A and claimed their Class AB amps were just like Class A. I didn't believe that either. Yes I am very well aware ... | |
| Are You Happy With Your Phono Preamp? @cleeds I think we shall agree to differ. | |
| Are You Happy With Your Phono Preamp? @mulveling Thank you for these elaborations. I understand what you are saying, but that is exactly how tonearms were wired to amp inputs before there were balanced domestic set-ups e.g. my first stereo system in the mid 1960s (balanced started ... | |
| Are You Happy With Your Phono Preamp? @cleeds Thank you. But I still cannot see how it can be fully balanced if it has only phonos for inputs. If phonos can be balanced, why does it need XLRs for outputs? And why do ARC included XLRs in and out on the Ref pre-amps? And on earlie... | |
| Are You Happy With Your Phono Preamp? @cleeds It isn't FULLY balanced. Whilst XLRs are an option for the output, the input is phono plugs only with two wires only. There is no separate earth. The earth must run on one or other of the two signal wires. When I say fully balanced I... | |
| Is it me or new audio gear is too perfect and give ear fatigue? "in my experience, harsh or bright systems are the result of: 1. noisy power supply 2. noisy networks (for digital)" ? Cut out digital and half your problems. | |
| The new dynamic in speaker pricing In most cases with ultra high price speakers one thing (many things) you are certainly paying for is a very large number of drive units. Sensible speaker designers who realised that bling is not the way to go for good sound discovered many years ... | |
| Phono stage options - balanced with XLR both input and output... Phono signals are really small, especially on MC, so Run fully balanced. Every time. | |
| Audio stops pain Depends on the music. Yeah @wolf_garcia guess it won't work for all pain. | |
| Have you ever solved a high end audio issue using non-audio technology? Or, visa versa? Blutak. Many uses. But it hardens and dries out over a year or two and requires replacing. Jeez @hilde45 is that your room? Looks like a junkshop or a bomb's landed. Guess you listen with your eyes shut. | |
| Are You Happy With Your Phono Preamp? I upgraded a couple of years ago. I trialled in my system with small Boulder and van den Hul The Grail SB. I have had ARC phono amps before but I didn't look at the Ref3 because it can't be run fully balanced. Why not? Earlier ARCs had fully b... |