dougdeacon
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| Starting out Great news Tim. Enjoy! | |
| Help with selecting Replacement Cartridge Rex, you're probably right. Despite its phenomenal bass, the 901's unrelenting transparency would be too much of a good thing on a lot of pop/rock/electronica.Twl and others can tell you more about different cartridges, but I've never heard anyone... | |
| Help with selecting Replacement Cartridge If Twl says the cartridges he mentioned will work on an Ekos, then I second at least one of his recommendations. You didn't mention what kind of music you like. RCA put a lot of different stuff on those Dynawarps! LOL. We listen primarily to class... | |
| How warped can you get? The only obvious trouble I have with warps is cueing. Once the stylus is safely in the groove I hear no warp-related problems. Still, I don't like to see my woofers moving, and think of all the LF energy the electronics have to deal with! What doe... | |
| How warped can you get? Tom, Thanks for the cautionary tale. I trust you were able to find another copy. A first pressing though... ouch!I remember warnings to put the record in a cold oven and not to exceed 10 minutes @ 130F. Still, I wouldn't experiment on anything tha... | |
| How warped can you get? Anybody ever successfully flattened a warp? I've read posts about putting a disc between two pieces of glass in a 130F oven for ten minutes or so. What do you think? | |
| OK, I said it... OK, I heard it... I echo the praise others have heaped on you Pbb. Whether you stay with it or not, at least you're giving it a fair chance. You've already heard alot of what we fanatics keep babbling about.If you don't want to spend for a RCM jus... | |
| Help with cartridge loading. . . Zaikesman, thanks for the dope slap. My own ears tell me that I wrote it backwards.Dan, thanks for the clear explanation of loading for tranny vs. phono stage. Brilliantly simple and helpful. Even an english major should understand that a tranny n... | |
| Help with cartridge loading. . . Sean, good post. According to my in-house scientist, raising the electrical impedance to a cartridge not only requires the cantilever to move more forcefully to generate a signal, it also makes the cartridge more resistant to such movement. Almost... | |
| Help with cartridge loading. . . In theory, I agree with both Zaikesman and Pbb! :)Start with the manufacturer's recommended setting and listen long enough to get a good understanding of how it sounds. Then experiment, listening critically to decide if the differences you hear ar... | |
| Ringmat shims for VTA? We certainly hear things like sorbothane feet (great if you prefer muzak to music). I suppose we'd probably hear these shims too, though they probably wouldn't be as disastrous as something like a Sorbo-mat. Harrumph! You're trying to save me $100... | |
| Help with cartridge loading. . . Thanks, Tom. Maybe I can get a "butt-kicking" upgrade by swapping a pair of resistors, should take about 5 seconds per tranny. Meriweth, sorry for threadjacking. Your question just inspired my (semi-related) one. | |
| What was your latest LP find?? Archiv Produktion 2-box set of Bach's WTC, played on clavichord by Ralph Kirkpatrick. This was the first and one of only two WTC sets ever recorded on an instrument that is nearly impossible to play well and almost as difficult for a system to rep... | |
| Help with cartridge loading. . . Hi Tom,My Shelter 901 has a recommended load of 100 ohms, but the specs also seem to suggest a lower load if running through stepup transformers, which I am. It's very easy to change the load at the output of my transformers, and I'll experiment a... | |
| Advice wanted on mid range setup We do virtually all classical, though I do have one jazz LP and two CD's! We also like tubes, but otherwise our systems seem quite different.I'm in central CT. My schedule is very tightly booked (whose isn't these days?), but email me if you're ev... |