fsonicsmith
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| Pivot to Spindle distance If you search my posts you will find that I have answered this question over and over. The answer is an emphatic no. If you have headshell slots and can reach the overhang spot exactly, all is fine. There is a certain person on this board, on this... | |
| Best settings for my first MC cart Serious question-is unloading a MC cartridge equivalent or analogous to switching a tube amp from ultralinear to pentode/triode? When I lower the loading on my MC's (of which I have many across brands-Benz, Ortofon, VdH, Lyra), I hear the bass go... | |
| Lyra Etna or Atlas? The Etna Lamda .56mv has elevated my vinyl playback. It is still breaking in-I have only 5 hours on it! I am still trying to dial in the loading with my Manley Steelhead as between 50 and 100 ohms. Right now 50 sounds better to my ears but perhaps... | |
| DAC Choices - $5,000 to $7,000 Dagogo just came out with a review of the DAC III. It matches my impressions of my DAC II Special which hopefully, within a month, will be swapped out for an incoming DAC III Balanced. It should be noted that the balanced version doubles the price... | |
| Lyra Etna or Atlas? I know the new series of both are Lamda with a new pre-loaded suspension design. I know they both come in two outputs, with the lower output labeled SL. I know there is not a six month waiting list because I just bought one. I can't tell you much ... | |
| Is going from a Ortofon Candenza Black to a Ortofon Winfield a lateral move? It's Windfeld, not "Winfield". It is significantly better if your ancillary equipment are up to the task. You also failed to specify if it is the original version or the newer Ti. Beware of gray market sellers selling old stock Windfelds (original... | |
| SW1X Audio Design DAC II Absolute Top Tier Ref NOS DAC @wig Interesting. They must have changed the design. Here’s what they say now for the III:"Active I/V conversion via a single specially selected Silicium (or Germanium on request) transistor (with less than 10 Ohm input impedance) with the shortes... | |
| SW1X Audio Design DAC II Absolute Top Tier Ref NOS DAC I presently have the DAC II Special which trounces my AMR DP777. I liked it enough that I decided to ask Joe Cohen of Lotus Group-Slawa's US Distributor-to upgrade to a DAC III Balanced. Slawa says the DAC III Balanced gets very close to the ultim... | |
| Reed 2gTonearm Torn Wire & rewiring HELP please Only a doctor uses the phrase "proximal end". I assume he is not a neurologist. A neurologist would figure out the wiring. | |
| Calling All (Any) Cartridge Alignment Experts in Western North Carolina I have nothing at all against Yip/Mint. I always say this;There are so many variables-it all depends. A conical stylus needs a tenth of the exactitude of a replicant/fine line.There are many other ways to compromise one's analogue based system bey... | |
| Calling All (Any) Cartridge Alignment Experts in Western North Carolina This is why a USB microscope (with a small stand attachment) is so helpful. Once you have the alignment and focus of the microscope set, it’s very easy to confirm alignment of the cantilever and physical azimuth. Plus there’s no stiff neck, bleary... | |
| Calling All (Any) Cartridge Alignment Experts in Western North Carolina waltersalas OPI do not recommend the Mint. I have been down that road. It is very difficult to see the parallax implemented by Yip with his mirrored protractors and worse, it does nothing to guide you to proper azimuth or SRA or VTA. And, even if ... | |
| Still Need Help @ lenmc2964; Let’s get down to basics-to the very root of the problem-subwoofers and turntables do not play nicely with each other. You need to have a very large room or better yet, put the turntable in a different room. Most people don’t want to ... | |
| A DAC to help overcome compressed music? I definitely do not recommend it, but a preamp with a high 2nd order distortion profile like Primaluna will give you an added sense of depth/space but even then, compressed dynamics will still be present and it would be a case of the "cure" being ... | |
| Reed 3P armboard mounting Aesthetics are so so personal. For moi, I am not a huge fan of that gaping void on the Feickert and all similarly designed decks to allow for changing the P-S. Is it clever? Hell yes. The pivoting arm board leaf used by Woodsong does the same thin... |