herman
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| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil Actually, you can change the load resistor in any MM stage to whatever value you prefer, if you can identify it and can solder. I wouldn’t go so far as to say "any" since the input impedance may be determined by more than a single resistor, but... | |
| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil "Much better to have a phono stage with a very ______ input impedance like the EMIA LR (300kΩ is standard)," Herman, the word you omitted in describing the input impedance of the EMIA is “high”. thanks, yes, I did unintentionally omit the... | |
| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil to be a bit more precise, the SUT is a Step Up Transformer so the ratio is 1:X not X:1. That said it is indeed as Lewn stated. Take the square of the turns ratio and divide the input impedance of the phono stage to calculate what the load is on th... | |
| DSD coming to Qobuz streaming? @herman I read that NativeDSD found a way without conversion in DSD 256. interesting.... read where? I suppose you mean mastering in DSD 256? If so, where do they get the DSD 256 files? My educated guess is that they are converted from some ot... | |
| DSD coming to Qobuz streaming? PS Audio has a small but interesting downloadable library of DSD albums on their Octave Records label. All these titles were mastered in DSD so you get the full benefit of what DSD has to offer It is mostly smoke and mirrors. Your statement can... | |
| Faint buzz in speakers Since "Can only be heard with ear right up to drivers" it is not a "problem." The solution to the "problem" is simple, don't put your ear up to the driver. | |
| Who knew? if a table is not spring suspended it will need to be either extremely heavy and massive, or it will need some other kind of isolation device that is typically complex.. not true Minus K platforms provided superb isolation (think electro... | |
| Amplifier used w/ headphones and no speakers connected, can it be damaged? Class D amps it is no problem. Class A and class A/B it is almost always bad. Class of amp has nothing to do with it. as many have stated. Solid state amp not a problem (unless it happens to have an output transformer.. most do not. .) Tube a... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital And idler drives… Old coveted Garrard. Since the majority of idler drives are rim drives, like the well known Garrard, I went with that rather than Idler. Others like Lenco are not rim so you are technically correct since rim drive is a subset... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital Just figure out what you want to listen to and dump most of the money into one of the two or achieve lesser performance and have both. If you have unlimited funds, build two state of the art front ends. very astute observation. regarding turnt... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital I want to be able to judge whether it is worth spending any more on my vinyl hardware, or stick with digital". that makes no difference to my point, which has completely gone over your head. It doesn't matter what record you try if your curre... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital Maybe my question should have been "What half-a-dozen beautifully produced jazz recordings currently available on new vinyl records should I buy"? I don’t think replay hardware has any bearing on the answer to this question? ???? It is at the v... | |
| Retirement System Finally Completed: Impression of the Mola Mola Tambaqui I honestly don’t understand why @audiotroy gets dumped on so much in this forum. Yes he recommends products he sells, but he always discloses the fact that he is selling them so no one is being fooled. Pretty simple.. the OP posted to celebrate... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital what a bizarre premise. There are about a million variables to consider in this experiment, and since we know nothing about your system, how do we even know if you have vinyl hardware properly set up and optimized that is capable of even remotely... | |
| Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source? I don't use any ,I don't stream... very helpful, extremely valuable input for the OP to consider, thanks |