dgarretson
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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, that is a wonderful litany of options from Axel. I'll wait for his response to my email. Running in this old M320 on my linear tonearm has been an amusing exercise. By tilting the air manifold of the linear tonearm down toward the recor... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, FWIW the Silonex variable LDR and the 200K fixed resistor are attached together on the phono PCB. There is no additional wiring in the signal path. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, For resistive loading I use a Silonex light-dependent variable resistor in parallel with a fixed 200K TX2575 resistor. At least one or two MM cartridges preferred loading above 100K, but the experiment was done a few years ago shortly b... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thanks, Harold. I just grabbed that 320 III STR for a try on my Terminator. | |
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| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Augwest, IIRC the BBAM is a capacitive load with 40K input impedance. This could present a difficult load to an LSA passive. In my instance the challenge is compounded: I split the preamp's output between the downstream BBAM and a sub with 47K inp... | |
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| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Augwest, are you placing the Merlin BBAM upstream or downstream of LSA? | |
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| Soundsmith Straingauge SG-200 cartridge system Spirit, converting any phono stage to 100K loading for vintage MM/MI cartridges is as simple as replacing the two or four 47K or 23.5K resistors located closest to input. Switching any remaining small-value load resistors in parallel with 100K wil... | |
| Soundsmith Straingauge SG-200 cartridge system Spirit,Here are alternatives that will work well on the Trans-Fi and set a high bar for comparison to some of the top new-production cartridges. It is catch-as-catch-can with vintage.http://www.ebay.com/itm/VERY-NICE-CLASSIC-PICKERING-XSV3000-CART... | |
| Soundsmith Straingauge SG-200 cartridge system Spiritofmusic, I have not heard a Zu 103, but have passed through Denon's top DL-S1 on my Terminator as a side-bar to a fairly wide range of NOS MM/MIs. FWIW the vintage MM/MIs will flip your wig. I've heard the Strain Gauge at several trade shows... | |
| Active FETs vs. Step-up phono stage designs Lew, another hobbiest has used MAT12 interchangeably with MAT02 in this application, so I don't think there is any issue. |