dgarretson
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| Review: Trans-fi Terminator II Tonearm Hi Jaspert, Glad you are enjoying T3 and have compared it to some heavy-hitters. I am going to follow you into silver wire IC on a straight shot from cartridge pins to phono stage. PM if you would like me to machine you a brass base. | |
| Can a broken leg from a tube be soldered and used? Ihcho, I have been through many retubings of VK75SE without matching. From the owner's manual: "...implements a sophisticated autobias circuit that automatically compensates for tube aging and line fluctuations, as well as marginal mismatching of ... | |
| Can a broken leg from a tube be soldered and used? Ihcho, This is the first time I have heard the need expressed for matched sets of 6C33C. This is a tall order--particularly as these types have a relatively high failure rate during use, which further complicates consistent matching.@$15-20 from E... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Montepilot, I was able to acquire a spare Empire clip mount from Adam at Bluz Broz when I ordered a stylus. The clip has a three-point mounting that mates to a horizontal dimple along the upper front edge of the cartridge, and into crescents in th... | |
| Any Neko Case fans? Not crazy about her, but Live from Austin Tx is a killer & also has excellent SQ. | |
| Soundsmith's turnaround time? FWIW, Peter put his best "optimized line-contact diamond" on the stock boron cantilever of my Lyra Helikon. To the best of my recollection the cartridge sounds better than new. It looks quite different from the stock Lyra LC tip. However with this... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, yes VTA with the tail of arm wand just slightly down in back on Trans-Fi. While the wand's pivot point is just 2" from the stylus, the 4" of wand protruding behind the pivot is the reference point for sighting purposes. Thinking about VTA wit... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, I preferred Azden around 1.2gm, level to slightly negative VTA, and 70-80K loading. | |
| Glanz moving magnet cartridges I'll throw my hat in the ring with Dgob, Raul, and Lew. In my system both top Azden and top Astatic are on the clinical side of the MM/MI continuum and closest to MC in general character. So far Empire 999 has the most warmth & presence, and a... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, I got mine from Norm as referenced toward the bottom of this URL.http://www.antivibrationmagic.ca/index.php?page=about | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? BTW perhaps owing to the spring steel clip mount, the Empire body is quite microphonic and reactive to taps to the headshell. After break-in is finished this one will get the AVM paint treatment. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, the twists & turns of analog set-up never cease to vex & amaze. After a year of feeling pretty smart about shortening the length of my linear air arm to 2", I only recently grasped that the extreme VTA setting optimal for cartridges l... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Jim,From your post it looks like I need to find a 1000Z/EX body to fit what is evidently my spare 236 round-sheathed stylus with "wisker-thin" cantilever. One finds 1000 bodies with the square sheath of my 999X/EX body like the following body... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Question to holders of Empire 1000: is the body receptacle for the cantilever barrel square or round? My 999 body takes a square cantilever, I have seen a photo of a 1000 body with a square receptacle, yet the NOS replacement stylus that I purchas... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Sorry, that's XUV-2400/2400Q. |