dgarretson
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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul, That's two thumbs up. I concur with 1.4g VTF. From what I can gather, AT20SS may be the same as my AT15SS except for QC and hand calibration. At 15 hrs. I am starting to hear the fine qualities of which you speak. VTA is still quite posit... | |
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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Don, One troll in 2500 posts is surely a record. Any specific experience is welcome. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Wayne, I don't know Jolida, but phono stages with dip-switched loading are usually designed such that a small-value resistor is switched into parallel with the 47K resistor to change loading. If you change the 47K resistor to 100K, the switched va... | |
| New Tom Petty Bill, I think the program is to progress from ganster to rapper, not the reverse. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul, just wondering if you have further remarks short of a full review of AT20SS. I have been running in a NOS AT15SS for about 10 hours. The break-in is still evolving, but after sounding compressed and unremarkable during in the first few ho... | |
| Audiophile Addiction Speaking of good dealers, a dealer once wisely advised me that the hobby is full of men who after many turnovers, arrive at their retirement and sell everything off as a result of psychic burn-out or financial necessity. We saw some of this after ... | |
| Music vs. Components Tough to separate the two. The leaps forward in audio keep you running back to the music to hear it like never before. A big step up can reveal details of production that may distract from the music. Above a certain level of audio it becomes diffi... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? There is an NOS AT15SS on the way to me that I will try as well. | |
| New Tom Petty The SQ controversy is interesting, as both the Pallas pressing and recorded SQ seem excellent to me as well. Bill, is it possible that your negative opinion about SQ is attributable to the digital recording process in general as compared to analog... | |
| Audio Research PH2 or Aesthetix Rhea? Yes. I use ARC PH-2 for MM and MOMC only, and have never tried it with a SUT as would be necessary for LOMC. | |
| Audio Research PH2 or Aesthetix Rhea? The PH-2 is a keeper, contingent upon replacement of mediocre stock MIT/Multicap PPMFX coupling caps. I have not heard Rhea, but subject to its limitation of 48db gain, a well-modded PH-2 is competitive with other top fully balanced units such as ... | |
| New Tom Petty A pissing contest with more down the leg than over the fence. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, The ground tab on some Empire and Pickering/Stanton cartridges is a foil that drains the cartridge body to one of the four cartridge pins. Severing this tab does not effect the coil connections. I have only done this with cartridges with all ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, In my experience phono hum is typically picked up by exposed unshielded tonearm wires. Using screened tonearm wire and floating the screens at the cartridge end, deals with RF antennae effects associated with exposed wires. A separate physica... |