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| Kimber 8TC beater? http://www.mogamicable.com/category/bulk/speaker_cable/conventional_configuration/ | |
| Kimber 8TC beater? "Not quite identical, HDM. 3104 is four conductor, so one can shotgun each plus/minus per channel to lower resistance, etc."I believe resistance would remain unchanged but capacitance would be lowered marginally. You'd have to compare to see wheth... | |
| Kimber 8TC beater? I should make a correction to my post above. Mogami 3103 is actually about 1/8 the cost of Kimber 8TC. And, as I also mentioned earlier, exactly the same cable as 3104 but without the ability to bi-wire. | |
| Kimber 8TC beater? Mogami 3104 will do it as Loftarasa pointed out above. If you don't require biwire capability, Mogami 3103 (which is the same wire as 3104 but single wire only) will also do it at about 1/5 of the price of 8TC, which I used for many years. | |
| MOGAMI CABLES W3103 It's a very good cable that punches well above it's price, at least in my case. I replaced Kimber 8TC terminated with Kimber Postmaster spades with Mogami 3103 terminated with Vampire HDS spades as I felt the Mogami sounded better and more natural... | |
| RCA to XLR adapter vs buy a balanced cable Definitely buy the balanced phono lead. Your cartridge is a balanced device. If you have a balanced phono preamp chances are it will sound quite a bit better on the balanced input/output now that you have a balanced input on your preamp providing ... | |
| Is it possible for a record to be too loud? If the phono stage doesn't overload until 17.75 mV then that should not be an issue as a 1 mV cartridge is probably maxing out around 10-12 mV on peaks. What about the phono stage overloading the preamp ahead of it? Seems that is a not an unusual ... | |
| Is it possible for a record to be too loud? "The issue is can a cartridge of 1.05 mV or so overload a phono section set up for a low output moving coil cartridge."The OP's phono stage has a stated sensitivity of 500 uV in for 300 mV out with an overload margin of 31 dB. Any thoughts on what... | |
| JC3+ Anyone? Original JC3 was probably noisy (as well as being less than optimal) with many cartridges because it had outrageous amounts of gain. 68 dB on the MC input spec'd and it tested even higher than that in the Stereophile review. Parasound reduced the ... | |
| Is it possible for a record to be too loud? Actusreus:I agree. It is surprising how much gain matching seems to be ignored in terms of really optimising sound quality, not just here but on many forums.IMO, even with a good quality phono stage, probably more so in fact, the window for optimu... | |
| SDS or phono stage Variac works quite well in my experience with my Gyrodec. It's a fairly serious bang for the buck as far as I'm concerned. No ability to control speed (as far as switching from 33 to 45 RPM) and it lacks the elegance and automation of supplies lik... | |
| Denon DL-103 "one of the...." With respect to the conical stylus, I think the Denon conical is very, very good. I've used 103R's for the past 6-7 years now, both stock and modified and prefer the 103R to some cartridges costing quite a bit more that have more exotic stylus pro... | |
| Balanced or single ended phono stage? I'm partial to balanced phono stages, using one myself. Lots of benefits as Atmashphere has pointed out. As to the OP's original question, I would point out that the Ayre has both balanced inputs and outputs, the Parasound only balanced outputs. T... | |
| Does anyone use a RUMBLE filter? Raul: The subsonic filter on my phono preamp is -9 dB @ 10 Hz, -18 dB @ 5 Hz and -48 dB @ 2 Hz. Not sure what you'd be hearing down there (at least in terms of anything good on the vinyl as opposed to the negative effects of both the amplifier and... | |
| Does anyone use a RUMBLE filter? Well everyone has an opinion of course. Perhaps some might be interested in Harry Weisfeld's; he probably knows a bit about vinyl. Then again, maybe not?http://db.audioasylum.com/mhtml/m.html?forum=vinyl&n=1041937&highlight=subsonic+HW&... |