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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Cr0517, Nine letters is about right. It must be noted that the diminutive Mister Big was rarely sighted apart from association with Fearless Leader. Boris Badenov(whose qualifications included a degree in Scoundrelship from USC(University of Safec... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, for some American youth of our generation Dostoyevski's underground man (and in general the Russian flavors of alienation) resonated more than Sartre. (To this day when it's a struggle to get off the couch I think of Goncharov.) The ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, I'm late to the party at your aunt & uncle's, but a closer investigation of the iconography of the Rocky & Bulwinkle cartoon will reveal the western corollary to your social realism. Please investigate particularly Mr. Big, w... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, I agree with you that casual modification invites a natural tendency toward confirmation bias. This can be ammeliorated somewhat if one spends long enough inside a particular component(sometime longer than the original development cy... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear lewm,"At first, I taught him a thing or two, but he has been flying on his own for some time...""Dear Avid Fan: inherit my mantle and surpass my achievements"--Coded message from Hannibal Lecter to his protege Francis Dolarhyde(aka Tooth Fair... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Ct0517, FWIW, AVShowrooms.com, which produced those videos, recently filmed a video tour of me and my system of all-modified components. I don't know if/when this will appear on the site. At the time I had no idea who they were, but there is indee... | |
| Alt Country/Folk, American roots Ryan Adams "Ashes & Fire" is pretty close to Gold. Some other excellent new releases include "The Lost Notebooks"(Hank tribute) and Jay Farrar and Yim Yames "New Multitudes"(Guthrie tribute). All sound great on vinyl. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? There is a NOS Empire 2000Z in the mail to me. Does anyone have experience with this model or have a sense of where its performance stands within the Empire hierarchy? | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Chopin123, anyone who has troubled to listen to every mm cartridge mentioned in this thread deserves a bigger prize than a Denon 103R. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I finally got off the couch and repaired my very modified ARC PH-2 balanced MM phono stage. Time to get back to the high life of MM/MIs after a long and satisfying side-bar with a DL-S1. John, it is certainly worth the $600. Given renewed discussi... | |
| How do you tame a Denon DL-S1? Based on positive listening experiences at shows, I suggest Pass Labs XP-15 or XP-25 phono stages. These do 76db gain with granular loading options all the way down to 10R. | |
| How do you tame a Denon DL-S1? I agree with Raul. You may get by with a step-up, but this is unlikely to reveal the cartridge's potential. IME the DL-S1 sounds best loaded under 100R. This reduces gain further, compounding problems for all but a high-gain phono stage. I load it... | |
| Top big-name monitors current versions . I recently had a pair of Green Mountain Audio's top Eos-HX monitors for extended audition and demonstration to a local audio society. Eos-HX has a heroic cast marble cabinet, a simple first-order crossover, and precise time allignment with minimal... | |
| Volume Pot Upgraqde Consider a shunt volume control with a 50K TX2575 series resistor and a Silonex variable light-dependent resistor in the shunt position. This is explicated in the Lightspeed DIYaudio thread. This will surpass a convention series attentuator. | |
| Have gun will travel Mitch4t,I trump you with my Steve McQueen Wanted Dead or Alive sawed off holstered repeater rifle and my Hugh O'Brian Wyatt Earp Action figure bow-legged for ride on a plastic horse. Unfortunately both are lost to the junk yard. |