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| Tonearm microphonics This is a gross simplification and distortion. Everything needs to be tuned as much as possible, not dampened. Try to dampen a guitar or piano. But tuning is so much more difficult than dampening. Sound must be alive. | |
| Top integrated with MC phono section Nah, don't save a lot. VAC or Gryphon woiuld be top but different choices. Rogue Audio is a great value company. | |
| Tonearm microphonics Not at all a stupid question. Doesn't appear to be anything to worry about. | |
| Sonic qualities of SET output tubes? Ralph, would you like to tell us about disadvantages of OTL amp design? 0.5% distortion at full power is quite an achievement.One thing is certain - more powerful SET amps done right are very expensive. | |
| Your choice - TT, Arm, Stage, Cartridge - $5000 budget Now, this is a quite good cartridge, and if it's A-stock the price is excellent. It is quite heavy, you should talk to VPI people about compatibility with the arm. And as I said, Ortofon can be bright, especially with solid state phono. You could ... | |
| Sonic qualities of SET output tubes? If " dumping the output transformer " were the best way - everyone would be doing it. Ralph and Davis are not the only capable tube amp designers in the world. This is a complete nonsense. | |
| Your choice - TT, Arm, Stage, Cartridge - $5000 budget Anyone knows anything about The Cartridge Man cartridges? Reviews are quite impressive.Anyway, VPI Prime or Nottingham Spacedeck you'll get an excellent table. The phono stage.. most people who use tube amps use tube phono as well, there are also ... | |
| Your choice - TT, Arm, Stage, Cartridge - $5000 budget Sorry, I didn't catch that they can't ship overseas. The way around it is that you have friends or relatives in the UK. Or if you were going to visit the UK soon. You could try, theoretically speaking, some hi-end places in Japan. But.. | |
| Top integrated with MC phono section I am not sure that Gryphon has dealers in the US yet. But there is a distributor - On A Higher Note. I have no idea of the US prices either. I suggest you talk to them. For solid state choice with MC phono, MM/MC is optional in Gryphon, I don't th... | |
| Your choice - TT, Arm, Stage, Cartridge - $5000 budget Oh, and I steer clear of less expensive Grado, not familiar with their Reference level, they are foggy and not balanced enough.I really like Grado headphones, though, very engaging. | |
| Your choice - TT, Arm, Stage, Cartridge - $5000 budget Oops, sorry, it's $1308 plus shipping. I don't know how it would work in VPI arm, it would fine in Nottingham. Medium weight, 0.6mv output. $800 Carmen or $1308 Lyra Delos? Lyra no doubt if your phono can handle it. I would stay away from any AT o... | |
| Your choice - TT, Arm, Stage, Cartridge - $5000 budget I just took a look at analogueseduction.net in the UK, that's where I bought my cartridge, to see what they've got. It's unbelievable, Lyra Delos is $1250 plus shipping, here in the US it's $1999 unless you somehow get a discount. Oh boy, and it's... | |
| Your choice - TT, Arm, Stage, Cartridge - $5000 budget Carmen cartridge is $800 from musicdirect.comI was hesitating when I was choosing a cartidge for myself and narrowed it down to that Goldring and Carmen, which also works fine in Nottingham arm. It was $600 then. Decided on Goldring but not becaus... | |
| Your choice - TT, Arm, Stage, Cartridge - $5000 budget In addition, in some way, in my opinion, one has to match the cartidge with the table and speakers’ character. As an example, Nottingham table is on the warm side of neutral and so are my speakers, only more. I did not want to put either too warm ... | |
| Your choice - TT, Arm, Stage, Cartridge - $5000 budget Right. As most agree, the first cable in the chain is most important. In my case it goes from cartridge to the phono so I didn't have to think about it. Nottingham arm cable is known to be very good, some people do rewire the arm. I probably would... |