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| Graham Phantom vs. Phantom II Most SME V I know do already have v.d.Hul silver wiring inside. The top frequencies are more detailed and the sound gets a bit more open.Blue Tec on the armpipe - especially at the pipe's widening - is another great tweak.But the ceiling remains h... | |
| Graham Phantom vs. Phantom II Dear Axel, I am very familiar with the SME V since its introduction more than a quarter of a century ago.The SME V is not dark.It is something else. I would rather describe its sonic signature as slightly forward upper bass (due to a resonance in ... | |
| Graham Phantom vs. Phantom II Dear Downunder, there is much truth in your comment......... much more thruth than most want to hear or know.BTW - nice set-up.Never forget who was and is the one, real and only King ! | |
| Which phono preamps modify to top notch? Lamm LP2 - change tubes, caps, RCA jacks and the input Xfrs. 6 hours work, approx. $1k to 1k5 parts.Easy to perform except for some nasty work changing the poor RCA jacks for pure silver ones.Not balanced output however except you are willing to d... | |
| Graham Phantom vs. Phantom II Well, I guess it will keep on going that way. Syntax will speak his mind and take a clear position and some others will not like that.Fine.As in old german saying: "viel Feind - viel Ehr".Or in english: "your honor is in direct relation to the num... | |
| Graham Phantom vs. Phantom II Dear Raul, me being a late descendant from a very old family tree - its roots going back to the times when Iberia was almost completely occupied by the Maurin and well before the first european (- aside from Leif Erikson... - ) sat his foot on ame... | |
| Graham Phantom vs. Phantom II Dear Halcro, no.... a look in Syntax's line-up of past and present components does not tell the story. And it does not tell much about the veracity of his statements either.He has a good hand in selling used components for insane prices and has an... | |
| Graham Phantom vs. Phantom II In general (.... I like this phrase...) a good TT should indeed be a good TT independent of the particular tonearm mounted.In other words - the TT has to spin the record and should provide a stable base for the tonearm to be mounted.If a TT design... | |
| Graham Phantom vs. Phantom II What make Syntax' comments more worthwhile and valuable than most (.... not all...) others? First he has absolutely no financial interests in promoting either component and has tried most in discussion here in his home system.Furthermore - as I do... | |
| Number of records you have ..... too many to listen to all in my lifetime. | |
| step up transformer for clearaudio Dear Larry, dear Raul,I am using special bipolar Class A amplifiers, special FET SE-amplifiers, super regulated heater supply with L-power supply triode only preamplifier with SUT.So we have most all kinds of active and passive amplification marri... | |
| step up transformer for clearaudio Hi Csr827, it will be obvious audible if you overload the input. The sound will be unbearable thin, distorted and somehow "breathless" (in a most negative sense of the word) and it will be obvious that something is entirely "wrong".Get the manufac... | |
| step up transformer for clearaudio I am quite a supporter for SUT, but only for LOMC.A SUT suits the chain the better the lower the output of the MC and its source impedance (and the resulting source inductance).You may try a 1:4 step up with 8 to 12dB gain. This might work well an... | |
| Anti skate and tonearm damping query Hi Pär,the vinyl is indeed kind of soften and expanding its surface due to the heat of the stylus .That is an old problem noticed by record companies as long back as the middle 1950ies. Thats why records do suffer from repeated playback (especiall... | |
| Anti skate and tonearm damping query Axel, that is in the general accepted model I mentioned.To illustrate the point:an uni-pivot tonearm with no lateral balance and an offset (be it in the way of a S- or J-shaped pipe or an offset headshell mounting area on an otherwise straight arm... |