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| "Straight" talk lewm... on average, one might be better off with ignoring azimuth adjustment in favor of setting the cantilever 90 degrees with respect to the LP surface.I absolutely agree. Moreover - although every aspect of phono cartridge alignment geometr... | |
| Pangea AC14XL removeable ground plug brfUsing a cheater plug or removing the ground pin are both a safety hazards and should only be used to identify a ground loop problem. Removing the safety ground should never be implemented as a solution. +1. Removing a safety ground treats... | |
| Just retired and want to get back to vinyl listening fsonicsmithYes, I have read, heard, and known for some time that phono cartridges with their four pins are true balanced. That is not the issue I am asking you to address. I am instead asking you how RCA outputs from a typical modern table can be... | |
| Just retired and want to get back to vinyl listening fsonicsmithOK, you will have to explain this one to me. Many turntable manufacturers offer DIN outputs but you are obviously saying that those that only offer RCA outputs (like VPI's for example) are actually balanced. IMHO, you won't find to... | |
| Just retired and want to get back to vinyl listening ... given the comment on cartridges -- curious as to why more TT/tonearms would not have balance outputs ...They do have balanced outputs - don't let the RCA connectors fool you. And you can feed those balanced outputs into a balanced phono prea... | |
| What direction is VPI headed? innaIn 20 years no-one is going to buy new turntables ...Many were saying that 20 years ago, too. | |
| The longest you have owned any gear? I'm still using the McIntosh MR-80 tuner that I bought new back around 1980. | |
| Amplifier Starvation danvignauIf you are going to the trouble to add a dedicated circuit, go ahead and use 10 guage wire and a 30 amp breaker. You will never be sorry.I agree that 10 ga. wire is a good idea, but a 30A breaker should only be used if the receptacle i... | |
| ARC 150.2 vs ARC D200 opinions These two are apples and oranges because the 150.2 is a switching amplifier. The D200, on the other hand, is among the best of the SS amps ARC ever made, along with its D300 brother. | |
| Stylus force digital scales lewmYou don’t understand. And you don’t want to understand. So why bother? ... Or simply do the experiment I suggested: Measure or set VTF with the tonearm parallel to the surface of an LP. Then place a couple of spacers under your digital scale .... | |
| Stylus force digital scales lewm09-26-2017 3:00pmCleeds,Imagine that you are the stylus tip. With the arm wand parallel to the LP surface, someone has set VTF for 1.5gm. Now imagine that you encounter a record warp ...I understand record warps and the dynamic nature o... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts charles1dad... My point is that in "practical" terms 35 db is an excessive amount of gain for particularly a preamplifier/line stage.It sure seems to be excessive! What is the supposed advantage of such high gain in a line stage? | |
| Tekton Double Impacts almargCleeds, I wouldn’t by any means say that Charles is "completely mistaken." While it is of course true that there are differences in the taper characteristics of various volume controls ...That was the only aspect of his post to which I r... | |
| Gryphon and Ypsilon price lists inna $11.2k for the least expensive Gryphon integrated for ten years wouldn't be so bad if acceptable financing was available.I'm not sure how the availability of financing and the calculation of value are related, or even what "acceptable finan... | |
| Question for cable/wire naysayers..... devilboyIf you truly want to hear what your amplifier sounds like, the most logical approach would be to have speaker wire that is exactly the same wire that goes to your amp’s binding postsThat's not logical at all, because the length of a ca... |