drbond
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| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other So, I went to the Florida Audio Expo today, and I've been reading and reviewing more turntable recommendations and possibilities: firstly, the expo was pretty good insofar as talking with some other audiophiles and dealers about their systems. U... | |
| Any experience with Sound Smith repairing stylus on non-Sound Smith cartridges? @lewm Thanks for the recommended thread on stylus tips, etc. That is an excellent discussion on parts and re-tipping cartridges, along with the usual banter amongst contributors. For reference, here's the link: (I don't know why the copy/paste... | |
| Any experience with Sound Smith repairing stylus on non-Sound Smith cartridges? @mijostyn The Linn Krystal has a aluminum tube cantilever, with a vital fine line stylus (whatever that means). It seems like aluminum would be the reasonable replacement option from Sound Smith: Aluminum Alloy Cantilever; Nude Hyper-... | |
| Any experience with Sound Smith repairing stylus on non-Sound Smith cartridges? @whart Thanks for the input. I inquired at the shop that I bought the Linn cartridge from, and they seemed to indicate that Linn does not re-tip or repair cartridges. . . I put in an inquiry to Linn factory, but haven't received a response yet.... | |
| Any experience with Sound Smith repairing stylus on non-Sound Smith cartridges? @whart How did the stylus change affect the sound quality? Thanks. | |
| It comes with a balance knob?!?! I'll take it! I think all Lamm pre-amplifiers come with "balance" adjustment, in the form of a volume knob for the left channel, and a completely separate volume knob for the right channel. | |
| Why spend more than $25 per piece of equipment on vibration reduction? I received some Vibrasystems rubber pads, and incorporating them into my Rega P8 turntable footers, they are definitely superior to the sponge puck / hockey puck stack: I stacked a standard hockey puck on a Vibrasystems pad under each footer, and ... | |
| Do good power cords have to be stiff? @carlsbad 12G or 14G should suffice for most: 15A outlets have 14G single strand copper, whereas 20A outlets have 12G single strand copper providing power to the outlets. That’s your bottleneck: having 10G power cable feeding from a 14G wire sho... | |
| Do good power cords have to be stiff? Unless your equipment is very poorly designed, I don't think you should be able to tell any difference between any power cords, assuming a decent construction baseline. I can't tell a difference in my system, and the only blind test that I know o... | |
| Why spend more than $25 per piece of equipment on vibration reduction? Here's an observation: my system is set up on a concrete slab; other systems are set up on a suspended wooden/particle board floor. On a concrete slab, you can jump as much as you want right next to the components, including turntable, and you ... | |
| Why spend more than $25 per piece of equipment on vibration reduction? @chorus Interesting: worth a shot at 1.60-1.80 per pad from Vibrasystems. . . they have EVA-BRF pads and EVA-BFP pads, which appear to be similar, but obviously different is some aspect: maybe they'll be better than my puck stands! | |
| Why spend more than $25 per piece of equipment on vibration reduction? @jerryg123 Yes, real hockey pucks are under most components, all of which sit on a concrete foundation (as those on suspended floors may find more suspension/spring elements work better than they did for me). Lighter components (turntable, phon... | |
| Why spend more than $25 per piece of equipment on vibration reduction? In my very limited experience, I found that hockey pucks, sometimes stacked on sponge pucks, have offered satisfactory isolation of a component. However, it would certainly depend on your environment: my components are on a concrete slab, not a ... | |
| Record clamp While I haven't (and probably won't) try millercarbon's recommendation of the Origin Live One Gravity record weight, I have tried two tweaks on my Rega P8, which I plan on upgrading soon: Firstly, the P8 without any weight or clamp did have qui... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @sokogear What particular specifications in the phono stage do I look at to match with the pre-amplifier and the cartridge? (I learned the hard way (from @dover pointing out to me in another thread) that one very important specification to be m... |