dougdeacon
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| Cartridge Recommendation and Other Issues You need some kind of VTF gauge, just to be sure you're within the recommended range for the cartridge. The $20 Shure balance is fine. After that, VTF must be set by ear. No one can tell you that your PDQ X1000 cartridge must be played at precisel... | |
| Cartridge Recommendation and Other Issues I like everything Marakanetz said. Great recommendations. AFAIK, the only rival to the $20 turntablebasics protractor is a $150 Wally, which is the best. Everything else I've seen is a toy by comparison. | |
| Allsop technique Follow extremephono's instructions exactly:- never submerse the end of the cantilever- don't leave the stylus in the gunk for longIt's not a stylus bath, it's a quick cleaning swipe. Dip it in using your cueing lever, raise it right back up and re... | |
| What do I look for in used records? Good general info from the folks above. LM-1903 is mono, as Pmotz indicated. LSC-1903 was the stereo version. "New Orthophonic" was RCA-speak for the superior equipment and techniques they developed just before the stereo era began in 1954. They u... | |
| Upgrading Rega P9 + RB1000 Yhun, I didn't know you had the MC board. Sorry for the slight diversion, although 47dB gain still sounds like MM territory to me. How much gain in the line stage?I have the Mu feeding the MM phono stage in my c-j PVll preamp, which has 47dB gain ... | |
| Next worthwhile step from an MMF7 Arafel,This post will be long and cover a lot of territory, but you've asked a lot of questions!BUDGETThe Aries + JMW-12 list for about $3,600 right? That's without the .5 arm upgrade ($900), which is essential to handle any decent selection of ca... | |
| Owners of the JA Michell SE turntable..question. Jyprez lights up whenever he talks about his Gyro SE. Does that count? | |
| Next worthwhile step from an MMF7 Ron described the benefits of a better TT/arm/cart admirably, and he made a superb bang-for-buck recommendation. Try to find $2,550 for a TT + arm and do exactly what he said. If you had a different budget in mind, let us know. | |
| Upgrading Rega P9 + RB1000 Reb1208, good insights. I've never seen an RB100 and had no idea it was wired so poorly. Coax lead out??? ... | |
| Upgrading Rega P9 + RB1000 You have a fundamental mismatch between cartridge and phono stage. The CAT SL1 has a MM phono stage. It lacks sufficient gain for even the "H" version of the Micro Ruby, which outputs less than 1/6th the voltage of an MM cartridge. The CAT also do... | |
| Upgrading from a B&O RX2. Help..... Agree with Twl.AFTER that, consider upgrading the pre to a c-j PV10A or used PV11. I demoed Adcom vs. c-j pre's before buying my PV11. No comparison. | |
| Phono preamp advice. PA, seems like another person doing things backwards. We all know the hierarchy should be TT/arm/cart. I admit I ran my $1500 MC on a 25-year old POS TT/arm, but only for a couple of weeks until my Teres/OL showed up.Arafel, totally agree about c-... | |
| Where to start? New to Analog Agree on the BSR. It was worth asking, time to move on. | |
| Toslink vs. Coax I'm not using a DAC for my TT. Should I? :) | |
| Phono preamp advice. Lachobba, I don't know if the Pro-Silway or Wireworld are shielded. Many interconnects are not. I'm sure their websites would say, but this is actually a red herring.My system doesn't even require a phono cable. Many high end tonearms include a ha... |