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New cartridge for Eminent Technology ET2
I am not familiar with the ET arm, but I do have  a MC Sigma Genesis cart and think it is one of the greats of all time. I had Soundsmith retip mine and they did a great job. You might want to consider the same if you really like the cartridge, wh... 
American Made Audio Products
jimijack McIntosh ls assembled in America 🇺🇸 but all parts are from 3rd world countries. You've obviously never been to the Mac factory in Binghamton.  
ARC LS-27 universal remote code set question
Harmony 650/660. They are no longer manufactured but are in stock in many places, including Best Buy.  
Why do I need power management if I have a great power cord?
raysmtb1 I’ve spent thousands and thousands of dollars on all of this junk and it didn’t make a difference to me or any of my friends ... That's interesting. Please tell us more about your system and the equipment you tried.  
Why do I need power management if I have a great power cord?
raysmtb1 ... When I listen to my Mcintosh 611 mono blocks the meters usually say that they’re drawing around 6 W each ... if you do the math for watts to amps that means that the amp is only drawing .5 amps each Those meters show powe... 
Resistors
fiesta75 Resistors are never used as fuses, how he thought they were, is beyond me! You are mistaken - it's actually not that unusual. ARC, for example, often uses resistors as fuses on its power amps and also on the 6550 in the PS of i... 
Amir and Blind Testing
bubba_buoy               We cannot measure the difference between a middle C, played on a properly tuned clarinet vs. a synthesizer, vs. a trumpet. It's trivially simple to measure the difference between a clarinet and a tru... 
The best phono cartridge alignment tool
wlutke   Here’s a tip for finding the pivot on a Rega and some other arms when using the Feickert. With the arm on the lift I place a 3/8” square of sticky note with a dot in the center over the pivot. With the Feickert pointer over t... 
If it does not work, read the manual
FTFM.  
The best phono cartridge alignment tool
I have plenty of alignment tools, going all the way back to the original Dennesen, which was excellent. Of them all, my favorite is the original Wallytractor. These were made specific to each arm, unlike their current universal model. What's great... 
TT speed
holmz  I am the OP, so it was my fantasy not @dover . Oops, my apologies to @dover and you. That's a mistake I really try to avoid. It is not “tangency”, but the walking of the point across the platter dues the arc of the tone ar... 
TT speed
holmz if we change the speed of the patter we would alter the tone’s frequency. Yes. The tracking of a pivoting arm would look equivalent to linear motion of the overhang, moving slowly, in a linear tracker arm. What you’re saying i... 
TT speed
lewm Everywhere at any point on this LP, the 1000Hz test tone has been encoded by a perfect cutter lathe. In practice, the stylus tip is just a point on the surface of the LP; it doesn’t "know" where it was a fraction of a second before... 
Amir and Blind Testing
teo_audio   I could go on for pages and pages more, but the end point is that physical measurements as they stand, connected solely to engineering criteria and weighting, fail to take into consideration the capacities of the human ear and... 
TT speed
It’s interesting how some people think math is intuitive, and that they’d rather pursue a fantasy than understand what is really basic math. What’s odd is that they’ll resort to such personal attacks and invective in defense of a fantasy, while at...