drbond
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| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 @mijostyn I'm in central Florida, between Tampa and Orlando, probably about 3-4 hours from Miami. If you're interested in listening to the Dohmann, and the CH Precision P1, just PM me. If you can bring your (soon to be new) Channel D along to ... | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 @mijostyn @lewm So, it sounds like all three of us have SoundLab ESL's! That's quite unusual. Insofar as bass in SoundLabs is concerned, I would have to agree with @lewm . I've had the Atma-Sphere MA-2's hooked up to my speakers, and while th... | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 @mijostyn Just to clarify: the LP test record has a track with various frequencies, and when the frequency that is played causes the stylus warble, that's the resonance frequency? (and each change in frequency is annoted on the LP?) I persona... | |
| Unexpected issues with Rega planar TT, a respectful manufacturer product? @niodari No, I don’t use the Onzow stylus cleaner because I used it on my Rega MC cartridge regularly, and the left channel broke on that cartridge, with only 100 hours on it. I wasn’t sure if it was a manufacturer defect or as a consequence of ... | |
| Unexpected issues with Rega planar TT, a respectful manufacturer product? @niodari Just curious, did you use the Onzow stylus cleaner on your Rega cartridge that broke last year? | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 @mijostyn Ah, so that makes more sense: you're not looking to necessarily change the effective mass of the tonearm, just its tracking ability, by decreasing its inertia. What type of terst record do you use to measure the resonance frequency... | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 @mijostyn Sounds interesting, but I would think that it would be simplest to use a lighter cartridge mouting plate and move the counter weight forward based on that as opposed to adding a heavier counter weight, which would then affect the effec... | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 @mijostyn As far as I can tell, the counter weights that I have work fine, but I haven’t tried anything else, so possibly brass counter weights would work better, or possibly worse. Is there a theoretical "best"? (I, personally, would have no i... | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 @lewm @rauliruegas Thanks for clarifying: my counterweights are about equidistant from the pivot to the end of the tonearm, so I don't think anything extra is needed there. I think perhaps @mijostyn meant a brass cartridge mounting plate as op... | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 @mijostyn Thanks for offering to make a brass counterweight for the CB tonearm. Is the counterweight simply a heavier cartridge mounting plate? How would I know if I need one. Presently, I just move the weight back and forth to adjust for VTF... | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 @holmz Thanks for sharing your experience with Dohmann, and the details about cartridges that you discussed together! I’ll have to look into that WAM zenith disc, but I’ve been using the AnalogMagik software with decent results, and there is one... | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 @holmz Thanks for sharing! Was the Dohmann HQ in Australia, or Bulgaria (as I just read a Fremer article about Dohmann, Schroder, and another sound equipment manufacturer joining together to form a conglomerate in Bulgaria.) Yes, the alignment ... | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 @sksos Yes, I only looked at the MC cartridge input, since I didn't want to fiddle with a SUT presently, although that could change in the future. I couldn't be happier with the CH Precision P1 / X1. I'm sure that the CS Port phono stage is ex... | |
| Connecting a phonostage to a processor. @bwguy There are some very helpful and knowledgeable individuals on this forum. (I'm not one of them.) There is also the occasional poster who feels a need to insult others, for some reason or another. Generally, I've found that those who fee... | |
| What's A Good Upgrade From A Manley Steelhead? @rooze Don't let @rauliruegas bully you into thinking anything in particular. He doesn't know what you prefer at this point in time. I think most know what you mean by "musical". If you like the musical bloom of the tubes, then that's what yo... |