dougdeacon
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| Tranfiguration Orpheus description rzed,What argument? It's more like a tempest in a teacup. The three people who were actually here all heard the same thing. The people disagreeing were hundreds of miles away and they're both Tranny owners. Partisanship from a distance seems too o... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Hi Raul,Thanks for your insights. We understand this "test" was fairly useless, especially given the low hours on Andrew's cartridge. Very true.Andrew's speakers go lower than mine, but when I described bass differences I described what we DID hea... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Andrew,Thank you for being an upstanding guy. I never doubted what we all heard, though I'm beginning to wonder why we bothered sharing it. You get my vote for honest audiophile of the year.Like you, I hope the O will open up a lot more. IMO this ... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Tim asked:On a different note, two questions for Doug: i) What gain options does your phonstage offer and what gain was in use for your U/O listening session? The Alaap does not have selectable gain, other than choosing between the MM or MC inputs... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Mark,We're still striving but we are indeed blessed, not only with some good mainstream components (which anyone might choose) but mostly by a friend who makes rare and very special preamps and amps for remarkably affordable prices. We have not he... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Tip #9 (10?), stolen from my other thread and added here to help newbies find everything in one place:Remove the antiskate weight. It's too heavy and limits dynamics with most cartridges. Since the bare dogleg does not provide quite enough anti-sk... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description I'd like to share my thoughts and Paul's.First, our thanks for Andrew's kind words about our system. We heard the things he described, with one exception, plus some things he did not mention. He is not an experienced classical music listener, so c... | |
| How much fine tuning required on cartridge loading Snake64,My apologies! I meant to recommend the Riken Ohms.We used the cheaper Kiwame's to hone in on optimal values, then bought Rikens (and others) to hone in on resistor type/brand.The Rikens were definitely the ultimate winners, for us. Sorry f... | |
| How much fine tuning required on cartridge loading To those experimenting with different resistor types, we tried seven or eight on our BentAudio Mu stepups. In our system, to our ears, Vishays and all other film resistors had one audible flaw. Because of their high surface area:volume ratio, very... | |
| Origin live Silver or VPI JMW-9 Signature A Hadcock will probably also prove too light for a Denon 103R. It's great that your dealer can let you compare arms but make sure you audition each arm with the same cartridge, or you're wasting your time. | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Andrew visited us this evening and we had an enjoyable and instructive time, aided considerably by the fine wine and even finer single malt he brought with him. My thanks for that!SirSpeedy was correct to warn about VTF's below 1.90g. We heard the... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Neil, 52 and counting, rapidly. The hair's begun to grey but little of it has actually left me, yet. I just paid my stylist to barcode and GPS link each strand though, just to keep track. The digital revolution has come into its own - perfect hair... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Please make sure one of the judges is not paid off.A'la Don King styleDarn! I've already had my hair done.BTW, Cello (and Paul and I) had no problems with the UNIverse on his 2.2. The Airy 3 is the one that didn't like that arm. The UNIverse makes... | |
| Arm and MC transformer to match ZYX Air3 cartridge Stltrains,I own the (copper) TX103's (from Bent Audio). I also own an Alaap (similar to Dan_Ed's). The Alaap is clearly superior. Not a little superior, a lot.That said, the copper TX103's are well short of the best transformer's I've heard, and N... | |
| Compliance & Efffective Mass Question Dgad,So your Ikeda has an effective mass of ~33 grams? If so, it seems you have a very anomalous example of a UNIverse. Everything you heard is what we'd expect from a low compliance cartridge, as you probably know better than I do!I am still deal... |