dan_ed
Responses from dan_ed
| Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking? Nick Doshi's Alaap Audio pre and phono stage, plus Nick's modified Lectron LH-50 amplifier. No more merry-go-round for me! | |
| Need a list of TT with arms and motors seperate Teres does not mount arms seperate from the plinth. That said, designs like Red Point with motor and arm pods seperate are still coupled through the platform that they sit on. I think seperate arm pods solve some problems, but introduce another se... | |
| Best New Riders of the Purple Sage recording And. . . if you get LP "The Best of" you also get a great album cover to stare at! | |
| phono stage break in? Ok. I tried the Cardas sweep again today. First time since all the new gear went in. It does seem that there was a lot of grundge before. Now the voices and instruments are just that much more defined. The notes at both extremes are also cleaner. | |
| Best New Riders of the Purple Sage recording NRPS self-titled, Powerglide and Brujo in addition to Bdgregory's selections. | |
| Silicone for Tri-Planer damping trough I don't think that Deacon character uses anything in the trough. He'll probably pipe up with more info. | |
| phono stage break in? In this case, Neil, it is a mediocre SE/XLR adapter. P.O.S, as in piece of shite. | |
| phono stage break in? Heehee! Doug, I don't think any amount of burn in would help those POS adapters! I don't think any amount of anything would help them!I have to say that when it comes to playing burn in CDs that I have a distinct advantage. My system is downstairs... | |
| phono stage break in? Noams, it sounds to me like you should get even more improvement as you continue to play through your preamp. What you describe is very much what I also hear as caps break in.Think about this. Caps are voltage and time devices. This circuit is als... | |
| phono stage break in? I agree with Raul about caps needing break in time. That seems, based on my experiences, to be the component that does benefit from prolonged exposure to the signals of music reproduction. To take this one step further, it seems to me that any com... | |
| phono stage break in? Noams, the devices do break in much differently with a signal going through them, and not just a static signal. It needs to vary in amplitude and frequency just as the signal from the record will. Just turning on the unit with no signal does nothi... | |
| Transparent Phono Cable Well, I was thinking more like 200 to 300 hours but agree that this is still a long time. At least that has been my experience with speaker and IC Venustas cables. Given the low level signal passing through a phono cable I would expect this cable ... | |
| Analog cables for TT Ok, so we're talking a HO MC cartridge with an output impedance of 134 ohms. It's pretty much the same as any MM but since it is a MC I don't know if cable capacitance is much of an issue. Perhaps just try to keep the capacitance as low as possibl... | |
| Transparent Phono Cable Ed, please come back with your impressions of the XV-1s in regards to all of the music genres that you listen to. I've heard this cartridge with some classic rock and jazz, which is not supposed to be it's best application if you listen to some. I... | |
| Analog cables for TT What arm, cartridge and phonostage are you using? These will impact what you can expect to hear with different cables.It might be worth it to obtain some demo cables and swap them out so you can hear the differences for yourself. |