cleeds
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| Needle resilience I had a friend who did this and the turntable had been spinning for weeks. He was horrified and sent it into Steve at VAS for inspection. Steve pronounced the cartridge as A-OK, and as far as I know my buddy is still using that cart. | |
| USB Audio Player Pro to DAC Some tablets require a special adapter to get digital out. iPads work that way. | |
| Balanced connections to my VPI turntable? tooblue I believe that the side benefit of the 6db in gain also translates to a 6db lower noise floor It all depends how you look at it. Yes, some preamps will yield 6dB more gain. But if you don't use the added gain and keep the level the... | |
| Balanced connections to my VPI turntable? badbruno i believe the XLR is better for noise rejection, your thoughts ? I don't see any particular benefit to using XLRs here. You're balanced ("floating") either way. XLRs do tend to be more robust connectors. | |
| Balanced connections to my VPI turntable? If your pickup arm ground is connected to the grounding post on the JC3+, your phono cartridge floats above ground and your preamp is running balanced. (Assuming, of course, that you're using the balanced outputs of the JC3+ into a preamp balanced... | |
| Balanced connections to my VPI turntable? How are your turntable interconnects wired now? What are you using for a phono preamp? If you're using a balanced phono section with RCA inputs and have kept the pickup arm ground separate from the signal ground, you're probably already enjoying t... | |
| Oppo Blu-Ray Players in 2023 CDs can be bought for pennies on the dollar these days, so I can see the appeal. Given that you already "have both those Oppo players sitting on a shelf," I'd give one of 'em a whirl and see how it sounds. You can also try using its digital out to... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? nonoise So if you hear a difference with your basic cables compared to others out there, you won't believe your own ears until you find a way to measure it? This guy has extreme confirmation bias, so it's unlikely he'd hear a difference: I k... | |
| When to choice XLR over RCA ICs. @atmasphere we are mostly in agreement and this debate is getting tiresome. The two benefits lost are cable immunity and susceptibility to ground loops, since ground is referenced by the output of the device. This isn’t a matter of opinion or de... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? scottwheel It’s so much safer to try to discredit someone who challenges your beliefs than to even try to have a real conversation with them ... And that is why it is impossible for you to have a real conversation with me on these issues in ... | |
| When to choice XLR over RCA ICs. atmasphere What is debatable is the use of balanced lines actually being an advantage when the standard isn’t supported ... Sometimes its better, sometimes its not ... I agree completely, and made that point because I disagreed with your prior... | |
| When to choice XLR over RCA ICs. atmasphere ... it means the Sony doesn't support the balanced standard ... When this sort of thing goes on, you lose most of the benefit of going balanced. What is the greatest advantage of using balanced components? There are multiple adv... | |
| phono preamp to power amp Once again, @tokushi scores with his use of AI. Apparently he has no original thoughts. Here is further use of AI: relying solely on AI for forum posts has drawbacks: Lack of authenticity and originality: AI-generated content can often lack t... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? deep_333 It almost sounds like you’re living with absolute certainty that we know everything there is to know. It is worse than that. He insists that he knows all there is to know: I know, as much as it can be known that basic cables are... | |
| When to choice XLR over RCA ICs. davetheoilguy ... everything in my system except the turntable have balanced connections, and I’d do that, too if I could find a turntable Inlike that was balanced ... Phono cartridges are inherently balanced or, if you want to be strictly... |