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| good preamp for dynaco mk3 monoblocks with maggies I dont agree with the TVC solution suggested for the following reasons :The Dynacos do not have a very sensitive input stage and sound much better driven from an active preamp with good voltage drive. I own a pair.Secondly, TVC volume pots have ph... | |
| VPI bearing oil/grease? Frogman/Slaw,If you can, try and get some Motul V300 Power Racing, either 0W30 or 5W40.It is simply the best synthetic oil on the planet, a double ester synthetic, using extract from Copra. It is highly unctuous, which means a film will adhere to ... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Richardkrebs and readers of this thread,My apologies to all for not having responded earlier, neurosurgery has precedence. Richardkrebs has been advocating changes to the ET2 that include adding mass and removing the patented decoupled counterweig... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners 12-13-13: RichardkrebsI persuaded her to let me record the album, so I took my Sony radio cassette player and placed it in front of the single mono speaker of the school record player. So nothings changed then ! | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners 12-09-13: RichardkrebsDepending upon the counterweights used and the weight of the cartridge, this total can approach 100 grams. The same ball park as my arm.You have stated in earlier posts that you added 30g of lead to your ET2 plus lead to the ... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners 12-04-13: John47I suggested you drive quickly over speed bumps and see whether you need damping Your analogy does not apply. The goals are quite different.If a record has a warp, for example, the goal is to measure the groove modulations, not the ... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners 12-01-13: RichardkrebsH F Dover.Still....relative to the groove.Everyone else understood what I meant. Thank you for that feedback. I'm surprised the results from the Eksen Research survey were available so soon. | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners DlcockrumYes I agree that damping may be required in some cases, and that running the paddle at the surface would be best. That is how I set the paddle with the Townsend TT. However, the application of damping should be a last resort. In my experi... | |
| XLR to RCA Adapter Dilemma Hi - check out the Sterophile review of the BAT 3iX. Although this pre is different, the balanced output has 6db higher gain when used with single ended input.Furthermore, the output impedance of the preamp varies significantly with balanced/unbal... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners 11-28-13: RichardkrebsSince the key to performance of the trough is to better keep the cartridge body still, it seems to be the place to position it. This seemingly innocuous statement requires careful examination as it continues the flawed thinki... | |
| Glanz moving magnet cartridges Mechanical damping comes in many forms - in the Naim Aro that I have the location of the counterweight and the lowering of the centre of gravity to below the pivot point provides about 6db of mechanical damping to the stylus. Furthermore the beari... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Dave/Frogman - Interesting your comments on going back to the aluminium arm with MM's.With my aluminium arm I removed the heat shrink and internal foam. This yielded a lighter sound, but cleaner, clearer and less smear with both high and low compl... | |
| Decca London Gold cartridge nightmare If you are talking about the original super gold, I have set up probably 15-20.They are very arm sensitive. A lot of people ran them on Linn Sondeks/Ittoks in the 80's. The best I heard was with the Zeta tonearm. My feeling would be the Audiomods ... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Richardkrebs11-05-13: RichardkrebsFrogman."gas powered compressor with large storage tank"This is kinda what I'm using now. It is a small shop air compressor. oil less type.What type of compressor are you using ? | |
| has anyone else tried Lloyd Walkers latest tweak Lewm when we just mount a crystal out in space on a cartridge or tonearm there is no electrical energy source to set the crystal into resonating, In my view there are 2 possible sources of excitation for the crystal -1. Any resonance generated by ... |