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| Tri-Planar grounding question... Atmasphere. I see where the black ground wire exits the box and have opened the box as well to see wire configuration. The black ground wires which starts from the tonearm pillar DO break up within the box but also continues along the two L/R sign... | |
| Tri-Planar grounding question... All you cats have been a great help - a very kind thanks : )I have one more Tri-Planar connection question;What is the black ground wire (within the cable) attached to on the rca end? Is it attached to the cables shielding or nothing at all? | |
| Tri-Planar grounding question... Ok. This all makes sense to me now... thanks guys!WIRES - I see where the screw is and it looks like the washer is in fact attached or soldered to the shielding of the cable.Is it common practice to attach the ground wire to the tonearm and the sh... | |
| Where are the female Audiophiles? Audio will always remain male dominated as yoga is to females.How will your football pal react when YOU tell him that you have a weekly yoga class?? | |
| $3000 on Analog system - how to spread? From a sound perspective, I believe that the components should go in this order (from most important to least) in the analogue chain of events, IMO. Given the percentage breakdown, the turntable (*) is generally the most expensive component in you... | |
| Radiohead, Night 2 Toronto How was the light show? Last time I saw them was at Maple Leaf Gardens. The light show was amazing but the sound was so bad.I'm so looking forward to Thom's solo album coming out in July. | |
| What phono preamp would be best? I've had excellent results going with the Sonic Frontiers Phono One, tubed unit that uses (4) 6922 tubes. | |
| Import duties/taxes on a turntable to the usa I shipped a turntable from Canada to USA by Canada Post surface (Expedited) with a declared value of $1000 last year. As far as I know, the buyer didn't pay taxes or duty. I think items that are under $1500 are duty and tax free, lucky buggers....... | |
| Tube Question--Slight Ringing coming from one side Try swapping tubes to isolate the culprit...left > right / right > left channels on both amp and/or pre amp. Eventually, you will find the microphonic tube.Good luck! | |
| Recommended cartridge for OL Silver w/CAT preamp With my former CAT SL1 MkII and III, the ZYX line of catridges will work wonderfully. I would get one with 0.48mV output as the 0.24mV will require a step-up Xformer. Loading for ZYX cartridges is 100 ohms.Happy hunting! | |
| Which Tube Phono Stage around $1k? Hello. The Sonic Frontiers Phono One should be on your short list. It uses four 6922 tubes, external settings to match your catridge, comes in three configurations, low / med / or high gain settings (check to see which setting the unit is).A used ... | |
| Quest For Phono Preamp Aesthetix Janus, I believe, has all the above requirements. Never auditioned but has many positive reviews. Full function tubed pre-amp and is ideal for low output moving coils.Hy | |
| Phono preamp and Turntable Hello. For your $2000 budget I would suggest used vintage gear and there are a lot of used old goodies.For the phono I would recommend a vintage tube pre-amp with built-in mm phono section like a Conrad Johnson PV5 (around $400) which will destroy... | |
| Medium Floorstander for McIntosh/Esoteric CD 5000 Hello. Two floorstanders come to mind. Coincident and Hyperion. Both are well under $5000 and are tube friendly too.happy hunting! | |
| Paradigm 5se Mk1- Resale value? Hello. I think they were around $400 new like over 12 years ago. Sorry to say...you will probably get next to nothing (under $100). My advice is to just keep them and maybe incorporate them into a HT system, 7.1 channel perhaps?Best,Hy |