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| Owners of Jelco arms? Different systems, different ears and subjective listening preferences perhaps. Funny, but I found the high frequencies to quite possibly be the one area in which the Audio Sensibility Impact cable most showed its superiority to the Jelco cable (s... | |
| Owners of Jelco arms? Another vote for the Audio Sensibility. I use their copper version (2 in fact) and found it to be noticeably better than the the Jelco cable-I used the 506 balancedversion for many years. I described the differences that I heard in a review of the... | |
| How often to demagnetize mc cartridges? I use the Cardas Sweep Record every few months and find that it isworthwhile to do. But my limited understanding is that this is a verydifferent (and probably more lightweight) process than the demagnetization provided by the Sumiko Fluxbuster and... | |
| What does a tonearm contribute to the sound of a turntable? @simao "So those of you with the ethos on this: I have the Jelco 750EB coupled with a Hana SL cartridge. Compliance complementary?"It is borderline. Light cartridge and medium compliance. The Jelco 750 series, however, offer quite a bit of flexibi... | |
| Headshell recommendations for AT33SA on SL1200G The Ortofon LH-9000 would seem to me to be a bizarre recommendation in this case. Cartridge/Tonearm resonance is just about ideal with the OP's combination currently and if Pintree's experience is to be believed (and I see no reason why it shouldn... | |
| Is a Lyra Kleos good with a current-mode phono preamp? What is the input impedance on the EMIA unit you are using Lew? | |
| Is a Lyra Kleos good with a current-mode phono preamp? I've used cartridges with internal impedances ranging from 4-14 ohms with no problems with my Aqvox, and think that all worked well. I've also used an AT MONO3/LP with an internal impedance of 40 ohms and thought it worked reasonably well with my ... | |
| VTF gauge I'm confused, maybe just a bit thick. How can you measure 1.25 gramson the DS1 if it only resolves to .1 grams?What am I misunderstanding? | |
| Finally bought a new Turntable! The main reason the OP has to go so deep into the volume pot is the Vincent integrated. It has an input sensitivity of 425 mV, the result being that he is going to have to probably run 75-85% full out on the volume pot to achieve higher SPL's. (I ... | |
| Finally bought a new Turntable! Seems like most Audiogoners like a whack of gain with their MC cartridges. With most systems with an active linestage/preamp upstream I would likely find that 66 dB of gain with a .5 mV cartridge would make my ears bleed. I'm using around that, or... | |
| Audio Furniture has its own sound! " An isolated turntable like a SOTA, SME, Basis or Air Force does not care what you put it on. It will always sound the same. Not that any stand a turntable is on should not be a sturdy as possible."That has not been my experience in the past (alb... | |
| Cartridge repair by Moscow based Roman?? @chakster uberwaltz was indeed correct; in no way was I suggesting that anyone use line contact stylus for 6000 hours. I thought my post was pretty clear but perhaps not. In taking a look at my history with Denon 103R's it was probably about 5000 ... | |
| Cartridge repair by Moscow based Roman?? Chakster: I can assure you that I don't need to learn anything about stylus profiles from you with respect to this. I ran Denon 103R's, both stock and modified (mainly with line contact styli) for about 7 years and about 6000 hours. So I'm relativ... | |
| Cartridge repair by Moscow based Roman?? @jperry Absolutely, and I did read that. As Chakster pointed out, any cartridge is going to have to shipped to the retipper for evaluation and even then they will not guarantee that the repair can be completed successfully; there is always a risk ... | |
| Cartridge repair by Moscow based Roman?? Seems odd to me. If the body was not damaged and the cartridge has continuity in both channels, unless the cantilever was snapped literally inside the cartridge body (ie. there is no visible cantilever outside the cartridge body) this should be a ... |