dgarretson
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| Stacking Chip DACs? In dual-mono configuration the Twisted Pair Buffalo II offers 8x ESS Sabre 32 bit DACs per channel-- but you have to assemble it yourself. At some point I'll try this with Audio Consulting Silver Rock output transformers. | |
| Confused about compliance matching with airbearing Rcthweatt, The ET manual is a well-spring of technical information, but I am confused on the subject of horizontal mass. If I understand correctly, moving horizontal mass is 25-35gm wand+manifold, plus up to 40gms counterweights, plus optional 18g... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Kcc123, Look forward to your impressions of Sonus BG. Of all the cartridges I've tried this one has been the most finicky and revealing of problems of geometry, so be patient! | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Timeltel & Lew, I am among the untouchables with only one turntable and tonearm, so for the purpose of addressing cartridges of varying compliance I am forced to the prosthetic of interchangeable arm wands of varying composition and weight. Th... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? After several hours break-in of Sonus Blue Gold on Trans-Fi arm fitted with my lightest carbon eggshell/foam core wand, Sonus surpasses AT20SS by any measure. There is more of everything coming through. I assume this owes to particularly good syne... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 Deerhunter "Halcyon Digest". Digest is correct as it's stylistically slipperier than Microcastle, ranging from anticipated alt. psychedelia to Conner Oberst-style crooning(but with less angst and a better sense to melody) to only slightly bent sur... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Just scored a NIB Sonus Blue Gold, which at 50 cu will be my highest compliance cartridge yet. A web search suggests that it wants very positive VTA and 1.25gm. Any thoughts regarding optimal set-up for this one? As there are reported cantilever f... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, Pickering XSV3000 is a vivid & pyrotechnic performer but perhaps a little nervous. AT20SS is more "high-end" in terms of detail that doesn't call attention to itself and detail in balance with embodiment. There have been comments that AT ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Of a half dozen NOS MM/MI that I've tried so far, AT20SS is probably the best.In October TAS Harry Pearson praises seven "third- generation" MCs(ZYX Omega, Kubotech Haniwa, My Sonic Labs Eminent EX, Dyna XV-1T, Miyajima Shilabe, Clearaudio Goldfin... | |
| New favorite VINYL Album? MTV Unplugged is seminal Alice-- a perfect companion to Nirvana Unplugged & acoustic Pearl Jam Benaroya Hall. Good to have it on vinyl. After showing early promise Ray L evolved into a pretentious bore, but maybe worth another chance. | |
| Confused about compliance matching with airbearing With cartridges of high 30-50 compliance it has been easy to see cantilever deflection in action, to hear the associated distortions, and to compensate by releveling the manifold to "center" the cantilever. I can't measure level accurately enough ... | |
| Trans-Fi Terminator 3 Airbearing Tonearm It's a 9gm affair made from a single layer of CF with a foam core for strength and damping. I also have a half-weight flat wand made with the same technique. There is an audible improvement mated with medium- and high-compliance cartridges. I have... | |
| SACD vs. Vinyl Carlos269, Seems to me that LF quality(as opposed to undifferentiated quantity of LF) is a result of issues particular to the formats and also the relatively high level of LF distortion found in typical audio systems. In my anecdotal experience, a... | |
| Trans-Fi Terminator 3 Airbearing Tonearm 25gm for MG-1 is the spec for the arm and the tube without a counterweight. The photos and long arm design suggest that the counterweight is heavy. Stock Trans-Fi with the new short flat wand is around 75gm including counterweight. My customized T... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 Blonde Redhead Penny Sparkle, aptly subtitled "your OTHER WORLD (DREAM) IS INSIDE HERE----> Here sometimes, not getting there, will there be stars, my plants are dead, Cove or prison, Oslo, penny sparkle, everthing is wrong, black guitar, spain... |