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| Help... my turntable is alive! moonglum Positive, Neutral, Negative VTA are popular expressions which have been around for a while ... You can call it "physically impossible" if you wish There's simply no such thing as "negative VTA." You can call it possible, but that do... | |
| New cartridge and/or tonearm for a Delphi Mk1 Your best choice of cartridge depends on both the pickup arm and your phono preamp. The SME arms do work very well on the Oracles. | |
| Help... my turntable is alive! moonglum... something could be mechanically "bottoming out" if it is periodic e.g cartridge rear end hitting a warp or negative VTA ...Certainly a pickup arm can be adjusted so that it and the VTA are too low, but there's no such thing as a "neg... | |
| Refurbish vs New Amplifier? AR refused to service my 100.2 last year because they didn't have all the parts for the amplifier. Sorry, but I find this very, very difficult to believe. | |
| Refurbish vs New Amplifier? gs5556Older amplifiers are almost always not serviced by the factory because ...That depends very much on the manufacturer. Audio Research, Threshold, Bryston, McIntosh and many others service their older equipment. I'd be surprised if Krell didn... | |
| Budget MM Phono Cartridge Recommendation kalali What specs are useful when comparing cartridge performance?Mass, compliance, output level, stylus profile. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? chaksterWithout Japanese know-how it would be impossible to make high-end cartridges in the 70s/80s eraThat would be news to companies such as Shure Bros and Grado, who manufacture in the US, and other companies such as AKG, which manufactures in... | |
| SME Tonearm Question pcostaThe SME IV.Vi was an arm made for SUMIKO when they were the distributors. From what I know that arm did not include a cable, but all other SME arms came with a cableAccording to SME, the arm comes with a cable. I provided a link to th... | |
| SME Tonearm Question Yes, SME has always included cables with this arm. It's even on the website:"Audio lead Length 1.2m Capacitance 140.0 pF per channel Resistance 0.145 ohms per conductor" | |
| Wiring two systems to one set of speakers...crazy? marktomaras... audio research gear is built to be used and to last. A new set of tubes for your ref 5 can be had for $200-$300. The specs say the tubes will last 4000 + hours, which is 2.7 hours, every day of the year, for 4 years.i would skip... | |
| power for mc452 and c2600 ps7256The ideal of 20amp or even 30amp from your circuit box and appropriate gauge electrical wiring would be idealA 30A line would be problematic because it would require a 30A receptacle. That won't be compatible with the plugs on your audio eq... | |
| Insuring your Audio Room? +1 to the advice offered. Most homeowners polices have very low limits on things such as CDs and LPs, so you'll likely need a separate policy for them. | |
| SME vs. Clearaudio Turntable Comparison - Thoughts? don_c55The SME V was designed in 1987 and not changed since. Old tech. Poor fine tuned arm hight adjustment - they do not care about SRA,Huh? The SME V offers extremely fine height adjustment, which is how you set both VTA and SRA with precisio... | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? czariveyAll we hear is Lady ga ga Lady goo goo Lady ga ga All we hear is Lady ga ga Radio blah blah Radio, what's new? Radio, someone still loves you!All you get is Lady Ga Ga?Have you tried changing the station? There's usually a knob for that. ;) | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? dragunski... If you rely on TV and radio (which nobody listens to anymore) to define current "pop" quality, you're going to be depressed. Perhaps. But you are mistaken that "nobody listens" to radio. In the US, it remains a huge industry. Data ... |