dougdeacon
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| Goodbye ZYX Airy 3 I haven't heard any of the "Premium" ZYX cartridges, so can't offer any useful input on the visible or non-visible changes or their effect on performance. Chakster is correct that the (original) 4D is physically different from and audibly superior... | |
| Evaluation of the Coincident Statement Phono Stage Arthur,To continue our many years of profitable non-collusion (lol)...It's true that this thread has not addressed active external MC gain stages. That would be far afield from the OP's original intent, which was to review the CSPS as it is sold a... | |
| Evaluation of the Coincident Statement Phono Stage It is FAR FAR more difficult and costly to design and build a well executed “QUIET” completely active phono stage than it is to place a xfrmr in the circuit.+1It's not easy and it's certainly not inexpensive. But it can be (and has been) done. | |
| Evaluation of the Coincident Statement Phono Stage Arthur,Thanks for your views and experience, however some of your assumptions are incorrect... at least in my case.I've used a pair of Bent Silvers (with five different types of loading resistors... months of experimentation to find the best). I'v... | |
| How important is a good rack? +1 to Svkelleher's postSalamander Synergy is well engineered, sturdily built, usefully modular and pretty good looking. But it's not an audiophile rack in that it makes little effort to control or diminish vibrations. That said, its modularity all... | |
| How important is a good rack? Once you reach the threshold of isolation sufficient to keep your TT (or CDP) from skipping with light room vibrations, I wonder.I don't have to wonder, I know. I've tried many rack and isolation systems beneath many phono rigs. A rack affects mor... | |
| Evaluation of the Coincident Statement Phono Stage I have the option of plying my Lyra Atlas through either the MC or MM input of my Nagra VPS phono, the latter with an Ortofon SUT. Same cart same system yet to my ageing ears the SUT has more sparkle and realism.As Audiofun noted, the VPS uses int... | |
| Evaluation of the Coincident Statement Phono Stage A well-written, fair-minded and informative review/comparison... maybe worth posting twice!Provided that one can afford a certain level of equipment, I also have never heard an SUT-based solution for LOMC amplification that can equal the best all-... | |
| Fozgometer In a couple of years of adjusting azimuth on multiple cartridgess using the Wally Analog Shop tool, I don't remember ever seeing much change in output (ie, channel balance), but differences in crosstalk (ie, channel separation) were immense. About... | |
| Fozgometer ... the manual states that channel separation is what's being measured. "Channel separation" is just a derivative statistic. The only way to quantify it is to measure how much information intended to be in channel A is bleeding into channel B, and... | |
| SP10mk2: OMA Graphite plinth vs.Dobbins plinth My stand is well damped with glass, metal and sarbothane in between. Glass and (most) metal are not damping materials. Glass and metal typically reflect higher frequency energies at the boundary layer. Imagine a room consisting of a big steel box ... | |
| How effective is the ultrasonic V-8 lp cleaner? Terry9, great post. A very thoughtful approach. | |
| Yuour cartridge for Reed 3P "12 Cocobolo The only thing a resonance frequency test and/or compliance formula can tell you is whether an arm/cartridge combo will resonate inside or outside the the "preferred" 8-15Hz band. This simplistic piece of data rarely has much effect on sound quali... | |
| Where to improve phono chain? In 10 months the OP has never acknowledged a single suggestion. I doubt he even remembers the question. | |
| Rega rp8 vs Project extension 10 No experience with either table, but be aware that some Rega tables are known to run fast. Make sure the one you heard is maintaining correct speed, as otherwise its "speedy dynamics" may in fact be a distortion of the music. Beyond that, comparin... |