dan_ed
Responses from dan_ed
| New Aerail 10T's Hi Jim,I think Mike Kelly is a graduate of New Hampshire University, but I could be thinking of someone else. In any case, the 10t's are a classic speaker. I bought Beemer's (Hi Paul!) and they have been wonderful. Even though I've changed speaker... | |
| Stylus For Gauge - Do I really need one? >All the more reason to use a better guage. It is the starting point I'm considering here and yes the final determination is done by ear. This has been beat to death elsewhere so in short, you use whatever you want. I consider compliances aroun... | |
| Stylus For Gauge - Do I really need one? It is not the effect of compiance on the guage, it is the guages usefullness in getting the VTF as close as possible to the manufacturing specs that matters. Higher end cartridges are more responsive to getting the VTF right and they tend to be of... | |
| Stylus For Gauge - Do I really need one? My take is that the VTF is more critical with lower compliance cartridges because of the compliance itself. Higher compliance is more forgiving when the stylus rides over minute bumps and warps, where as the lower compliance cartridge will force t... | |
| Stylus For Gauge - Do I really need one? You most definitely need a VTF guage. If you want to buy the last one you'll ever need, check out the one offered by member Ans for $95. I have no interest in this guage other than being a very happy owner of one. The Shure is a good way to go if ... | |
| Want to get into Analog but i do not have a preamp With the 834p, I believe that the load is fixed a 500 ohms for the MC input but I'm going on questionable memory here. (For MC you really don't care about the capacitance.) Pretty good value for most cartridges. It is easy to place load resistors ... | |
| Setting anti-skate It's the mechanic/tweaker in me that still has to know. :) But then, my system is finally revealing enough that I can easily hear these differences. (Don't under-estimate the Doshi effect!) In that respect, SirSpeedyMark is right on target about a... | |
| Setting anti-skate I should hope so, Warjarrett! :) IMHO, azimuth adjustment has been covered in so many places already. However, if you have an interesting and differenct approach I'd like to hear it. I think this is another adjustment where it is really nice to ha... | |
| distance from amplifier to preamplifier question? Oneobgyn,I don't think grounding will help if it is EMI/RFI that is the worry. Only adequate sheilding will prevent this and perhaps your ARC has such sheilding. It is this same type of sheilding that one looks for when purchasing a center channel... | |
| Bi-Amping, best way?? Sure, Oz. Purist Audio, Nordost, etc., all make y-adapters. I used a pair from Cobalt Cables, perhaps not the best but they did work. | |
| Setting anti-skate Thanks for asking a great question, Rich! The answers here have shown me how to get that little extra from my rb300/rega. I hadn't really been that concerned about tweaking this set up to the nth degree. To keep it short, I've gone back through th... | |
| Bi-Amping, best way?? I belive you've got it right. I do think it is the best way if you are using 2 stereo amps.Enjoy,Dan | |
| Want to get into Analog but i do not have a preamp One option would be an EAR 834p with volume control. There is one for sale right now. I don't know the seller, but getting one used might be the most cost effective way to try analog. You will be able to sell the 834p easily if you decide analog i... | |
| Shelter and Triplanar matching ? Thanks, Doug, I new I should have checked my math before turning in my test paper!Good luck with the armboard, KenDan | |
| Bi-Amping, best way?? You're talking about horizontal bi-amping. Does work pretty good. Back when I was running a similar configuration I found that vertical bi-amping did offer some improvements. For that, you only need the one set of outputs from your CD and run a si... |