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| Tracking Troubles--Upgrade or Setup? Chashmal,When "mistracking noises" ("MN's") are heard then actual mistracking, vinyl damage and phono stage clipping are all possible culprits. The next step is to diagnose.If MN's occur on multiple LP's, both old and new, we can probably eliminat... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Every time some hot rodding kid roars by the house and I can't hear the music, I imagine it's Patrick taking another run in the dragster he built. We couldn't have been more different in our tastes and views, musical and otherwise, but that never ... | |
| Issue with Phono Playback. The "plosive" sound on high notes could easily be a flaw or limitation in the receiver, as suggested above, but it's about equally likely to be due to stylus mistracking. If that's the case and it's your stylus that's mistracking, you may be damag... | |
| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt Frank,I didn't see it there either. I haven't seen clear or frosted A-V splicing tape in quite a while. My roll's 3-4 years old. | |
| Loading for Air Tight PC-1 Supreme With a low output moving coil cartridge (LOMC) you always have to set impedance based on the internal impedance of the cartridge - no matter what kind of phono stage you have. An active gain stage just makes calculating a reasonable value simpler. | |
| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt Hi Am dial, long time no hear. Welcome back!My long term suggestion is none of the above. www.usrecordingmedia.com also has 1" TME professional/archival splicing tape. That's what I use, except mine's clear (frosted), not blue. 1) Cut the overlapp... | |
| Loading for Air Tight PC-1 Supreme Both your phono stages have internal stepup transformers, so Rushton's setting (based on his active phono stage) will not apply. Loading of LOMC's with stepup transformers is both more critical and more complex than with active stages. The optimal... | |
| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt Mike,We had no trouble getting all the silver material off.Frank,My motor has three height adjustable spikes, so it's easy to adjust spindle angle like your base does (though I do wish my threads were a tighter fit). It would be difficult to use t... | |
| Turntable sound bad Agree with Narrod and Viridian on both cartridge alignment and the arm/cartridge match. Here's a link to the HiFi mod . Mandatory reading for most Rega/OL tonearm owners IME. | |
| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt UPDATE: our first AEB just reached the end of its useful life after 10-11 months of regular use. The decline from fully dynamic to "what the heck's wrong" was quick and easy to diagnose. Over the last few days it didn't want to stay up on the caps... | |
| What is your cartridge and tracking force used Or if your arm lacks a fine VTF screw, just slide an O-ring or two back and forth on the end stub. Simple, cheap, quick, effective. | |
| Lyra Titan i and Olympos SL Mosin may have misread my response, or else I miswrote it. The Olympos is not the finest cartridge I've heard and I did not say so. I said it sounds "glorious" and then asked the OP to consider whether that's what he's seeking. In short, I agree w... | |
| Teres Verus Rim Drive Motor with Pro-ject RM10 Can you hear us now? ;-) | |
| Teres Verus Rim Drive Motor with Pro-ject RM10 No, a partner/music lover/audiophile who's ears and brain are both better than mine. Most of the advances in our system over the years that we've shared here over the years stemmed from his ideas/brainstorms. I just talk alot! | |
| Tinny sound accompanying cello on recordings ? Shadorne,Hogwood's AAM recordings are our daily fare. Superb stuff, played by the most amazing musicians anywhere. When we want to test a system we always bring an original/authentic instrument LP along. It's very easy for a system to make them so... |