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| Michael Fremer leaves Analog Planet For those who think Fremer quirky, you should have met Dr Harvey "Gizmo" Rosenberg, soi-disant Thermionic Techno-Shaman. It's the small touches—note the fire extinguisher? Now he was a truly eccentric and worthy man. | |
| New user phono question. Comes with free story. I'm in NS. | |
| MM, MC, or MI cartridge @mglik The Grado Lineage Statement 3 is a little brother to the Epoch 3. It is very quiet as far as surface noise goes. It's a decent cartridge, but I can't say it is better than the Nagaoka MP-500, which has a very similar MI design, and one thir... | |
| New user phono question. Comes with free story. Fredericton? A bit too far then. The bias against cheap MCs is because MM and MI cartridges sound very good, and for an MC to beat them it usually will be a good deal more expensive. They are harder to make, and much harder to make so that they s... | |
| New user phono question. Comes with free story. Justin - I just read the replies in between mine. Where in NB are you? | |
| New user phono question. Comes with free story. Justin, I’d doubt you’ve harmed any of your records playing them a few times at 2g. But if the past owner was careless about that, what else was he not paying close attention to? If that cartridge has been run for hundreds of hours at 2g it proba... | |
| New user phono question. Comes with free story. No question about it, you can make vinyl outperform a CD. I'll assume the amp and the speakers are OK since the CD uses them too, and you like the CD sound. So that leaves us to think about the table, the cartridge, the setup of the cartridge, a... | |
| MM, MC, or MI cartridge The most reliable thing for me is whether I drift off and choose to do other things rather than listen to music. When I've got something right I can't wait to get home and turn on the system and play some music. | |
| Cartridges, Vinyl, Stylus, Turntable And here I am with two turntables in my primary system, both the same, and just so I can have two different cartridges on the go! | |
| Cartridges, Vinyl, Stylus, Turntable AS long as the cartridge is properly aligned, and the stylus isn't worn or damaged, I believe you can play your records on the second turntable without fear. Nor do the two cartridges in use have to have the same stylus profile (theoretically, if ... | |
| Phono Stage Gain - how does it impact sound? Currently (not a word used to show that I never heard of Ohm's Law) I'm using three moving iron cartridges. 1mV, 3mV and 5mV. My phono amp has three settings for 'sensitivity' (ie gain), expecting respective inputs of 1.3mV, 2.6mV and 5.2mV. Now I... | |
| Chime in if you bought a second table that cost a fraction of your main table. That's a good point. I'm running in two new carts as potential replacements for the Deccas. I keep track by making hashmarks on a scrap of paper (like the scratchings on the wall of a prison cell, four verticals and a diagonal=5 disks=3.75 hours. ... | |
| Ever Damage A Stylus Using Cleaning Brush? If you have a cantilever, a brush is fine if you are careful. An "ultrasonic" cleaner is even better - quotation marks are because they are just vibrating brushes and don't get into the ultrasonic range of frequencies. My Hudson is cheap and effec... | |
| Chime in if you bought a second table that cost a fraction of your main table. My answer is a bit of a cheeky one. My main table is an SME Model 10. I replaced the M10 tonearm with an SME V. Now presumably for many people a second table is a cheaper one, or one using, say, a different drive (belt vs direct vs idler for exam... | |
| MM, MC, or MI cartridge You should get out more! |