dogberry
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| Soundsmith cartridges Not at all, @tonyptony , the VAS MC One MkI. The LP-S is still a better cartridge to my ear, but not by a long way. | |
| Zesto Andros 1.2 True, that. I went back to a Quad 24p phono stage after spending six times the cost on a Musical Fidelity NuVista Vinyl. The former sounds better even with all the switches in circuit to allow four cartridges to use it. | |
| Cost Incurred to Achieve a Vinyl LP Replay @pindac @dogberry I have shared with you in the past on occasions about your methods used for mounting Tonearms. Indeed you have. I thought you might be amused to see the latest twist among my pods: using two per tonearm. The latest pair have... | |
| What's the deal with Vintage Tube Service? That seems a bit harsh. I have never had occasion to use him, but as a Canadian who routinely has to pay duty when ordering from the US, it's time for payback: https://valvesnmore.com A superb, fast, seller of tubes that are all tested befo... | |
| Soundsmith cartridges I was underwhelmed at first by the Sussurro MkII ES. I played with the loading and found it helped a bit, but it never really came alive until I used an SUT. At that point it became a very neutral but detailed cartridge, not quite as dynamic as a ... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? As a user of a Log Fire for home heating, I can't recommend cutting up furniture coated with a finishing material to be used as Kindling. That episode was nearly sixty years ago. The kindling was for an anthracite boiler that heated (poorly) th... | |
| Step Up Transformer Question @elliottbnewcombjr I use WBT locking connectors, but they still need a wiggle or a jiggle every now and then to decrease resistance caused by accumulated crud. (I guess they might be gold plated but it is impure gold!) | |
| What Holiday Gifts did you ask for or Give to Yourself? Sounds like fun, pindac! You won't get any flak from me (unless you really meant the Roberta kind! 😉) | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? Art deco? This is an art deco record player: And I wish my mother had never told me to make kindling of ours. | |
| Step Up Transformer Question And it might not matter if we carefully calculate the effective loading on the cartridge: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/mc-loading-myth.1189997/ At the end of it all, if it sounds pleasing to you, it is good and you might as wel... | |
| Audio Technica stylus upgrade I suppose it is possible to have a cartridge aligned well-enough for, say, an elliptical stylus, which you then change to something more advanced, and suddenly you find you need a more accurate alignment? I'm becoming more nervous about installin... | |
| Manley Chinook SE MK2 Sounds like I could "borrow" my son's Variac, connect it up backwards, and have a step-up autoformer! | |
| Step Up Transformer Question @rmdmoore I use a SoluPeak 4-way switch from Amazon. I can’t tell the difference with it in circuit, or connecting the tonearm directly. If you want to just run two carts, there is a Rek-o-Kut switch that also seems very quiet. I have a couple of ... | |
| Cost Incurred to Achieve a Vinyl LP Replay @cleeds The first iteration of the OWC Mercury Pro, which was where the exact same make and model of disk limitation arose. OWC could not sell me a replacement disk of the same model. Newer versions allow the disks to be mounted as a JBOD, and I p... | |
| Cost Incurred to Achieve a Vinyl LP Replay And may I wish you, and all here, a merry Christmas also. Digital library? I tried ripping all my CDs and had a disk failure in a hardware RAID array that required the exact same model of disk to replace a failed drive. They had been discontinued... |