dgarretson
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| 1K sleeper MC cart? @invictus005 For any expensive cartridge with an exotic cantilever and a working suspension, Soundsmith's best program is to leave the suspension and cantilever intact, and replace only the stylus with his top OCL diamond. For around $500, that's... | |
| Seeking arm suggestions for a Grace F9R @robbiesd I checked the original box for my Soundsmith OCL Ruby. It's marked 1.5gm minimum VTF. You might try that or higher VTF. Mine was early production. If yours specifies 1.3gm, perhaps Peter made a running change to the suspension. | |
| Seeking arm suggestions for a Grace F9R @rodman99999 The $500 Soundsmith OCL Ruby is a turnkey, new-production assembly comprised of Soundsmith’s aluminum stylus holder extrusion, Soundsmith’s suspension, Soundsmith’s ruby cantilever, and Soundsmith’s OCL diamond. It is not a retip or a... | |
| Please Rate These Cartridges in Best Overall Order of Sonic Importance. Recommended Arms? @lewm I never heard of those sure cartridge models... for shure. | |
| Seeking arm suggestions for a Grace F9R I don’t think you can rely on the original Grace spec for compliance of the Soundsmith OCL Ruby suspension. Best to ask Peter Lederman. Its highish 1.8gm tracking force suggests a lower compliance than a stock Ruby.I have an F9 body with the Sound... | |
| Seeking arm suggestions for a Grace F9R Are you at around 1.8gm VTF, as recommended by Soundsmith? | |
| AT ART-9 vs Audio Note IQ3 It’s all about the gain structure of your phono stage. The 1.2mV ART7 is fine at +76db on my Pass XP-25, but could get by with a bit less gain. The ART7 uses non-permeable coil formers, which reduces its output but provides theoretically improved ... | |
| AT ART-9 vs Audio Note IQ3 I can't speak to the AN, but I've been running in a fresh ART 7(my second) on a 4Point after a long run with a $3K Accuphase AC-5 on the Kuzma. The match with the ART 7 is superior in every way. | |
| Digitizing LPs For a shorter path, take a look at the Sweetvinyl Sugarcube. It does almost all of the work automatically and sounds pretty good. | |
| Digitizing LPs I have no bone to pick either. I will only submit that if you’re 70/30 leaning toward digital, then recording those LPs will eventually get you to 100% digital, and at a potentially higher level of satisfaction and lower cost than replicating an L... | |
| Digitizing LPs Admittedly it's a long-term project at any pace. But worth doing just once and well-- and buying the best equipment that one can afford for it. The results are good enough that I will not revisit the vinyl, and sell LPs off along the way. Any bids... | |
| Digitizing LPs @jbny Thanks, I’ll try it.@tkr I "hear" your pain. An LP takes up around 3.5GB at DSD128. I store them on a QNAP TVS-882 RAID on up to eight disk drives and SSDs. The QNAP contains an i5 quad core CPU that hosts Roon and Roon DSP engine. | |
| Digitizing LPs @tkrI purchased Tascam as the best all-in-one DSD recorder I could find short of Playback Designs. All that's needed in addition to the unit is CF or SD card media and a CF or SD reader to transfer files to the PC for processing by Tascam's free ... | |
| Digitizing LPs The Tascam DA-3000 does a nice job recording LPs to DSD and hi-res PCM. To improve the Tascam, check the archives here and on Audio Asylum for my suggested internal modifications. Adding to that, I recently had good results treating pins on its in... | |
| Top 5 Tonearms Newer or Vintage Under 2500 That Will Beat anything above/below 2.5k? @terry9 Thanks. I machined similar weights and agree with you that they work well. I felt it was more appropriate to comment on the Trans-Fi as supplied, as the OP is a newbie. It's a great tonearm and relatively simple to modify. |