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| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Neil,Glad you're getting those good results. Remember that our findings were strictly comparative, an attempt to describe differences, not a statement about absolute performance capabilities. 99% of the cartridges in the world would do worse than ... | |
| Do you think you need a subwoofer? Wow. Like you say, sometimes things that make no sense work fine while other things that make good sense fail. Try everything! | |
| Do you think you need a subwoofer? Thanks Raul. Our room is also asymmetric in the L/R direction. The L speaker is a little over 1m from its side wall, the R speaker is over 2m. The furniture in each direction is different too, which should also help break up standing waves.Both sp... | |
| Do you think you need a subwoofer? Hi Raul,Can you guess if the side-firing woofers used by Coincident in their larger speakers would produce a similar effect? Their two largest models go down to 24 and 20 Hz, quite a bit lower than my B&W's. (As you know, we really have no spa... | |
| best choice cartridge for my Lamm LP 2 The question with the LP2 isn't particularly its 56db of gain. As Cmk and Jtimothya point out, there are many great cartridges with ample output for that amount of gain.The real question is that 40 ohm input impedance. That isn't close to optimal ... | |
| best choice cartridge for my Lamm LP 2 Fjn04,Check my system for one option that you won't run into anywhere but via existing owners, since it's custom built. It has enough gain for any cartridge and a 3-way impedance switch with user selectable values.There's a 4+ month wait at the mo... | |
| best choice cartridge for my Lamm LP 2 I agree with Cmk, and I've always wondered what sort of cartridge the LP2 was designed for. 57db of gain is appropriate for cartridges of at least.5mv output, a bit higher would be better.OTOH, 40 ohms input impedance is optimal for cartridges wit... | |
| Where will devotees of Audio Intelligent turn..... RRL and Buggtussel have worked best for me. | |
| Best cartridge for JMW 12.5 tonearm? The UNIverse is an outstanding cartridge, though Doug Deacon will tell you the copper wired UNIverse is better than the silver wire. Almost. The copper is more to my taste and, perhaps, to the taste of most who've had the opportunity to compare th... | |
| Best cartridge for JMW 12.5 tonearm? Ceilalex,Great phono stage. Since you have the gain and impedance flexibility to handle most LOMC's, it seems right to choose one of those, especially for jazz and classical. Do you know your arm's effective mass? I can't find the specs on VPI's s... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description I think it unlikely that Nick would post on a thread as pointlessly contentious as this one. Unlike many of us, he actually has a life! ;-)Neither Andrew nor I have anything to apologize for, and it's a waste of time responding to people who don't... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Neil,Thanks for the offer. I have a mirror, a good lamp, 10x and 20x loupes, a 100x microscope and cards with reference lines at 0, 1 and 2 degrees. What other tools does one need to see and adjust SRA. (And yes, I understand that straight vertica... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Dan,As I just posted, we did not run the Orpheus (or UNIverse) VTA tail down in our setup. The only *cartridges* we've ever run tail down were Shelters, which most people agree prefer that attitude. We're chasing a false lead on this one.Doug | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Neil,I was checking SRA before fine tuning by ear for years before you ever posted about it. Spare us your smarmy "advice".BTW, Jon Risch published the SRA methodology that some here give you credit for back in 1999, long before you did. While I h... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Nsgarch wrote:Oh really? I wonder what Nakatsuka-san would think of a customer who thought him such a sloppy craftsman as to make a cartridge that had to be raked BACKWARD to achieve proper SRA? (to say nothing of the hurt feelings of the tonearm ... |