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| Running LOMC with MM (47K) loading I don't see any mechanism for the electrical loading somehow affecting the mechanical movement of the cantilever.It is common knowledge that when you ship a speaker, you should short the terminals because it provides a "dynamic brake" which limits... | |
| Mono Reissues and the Conical Stylus Would never go back to the conical. IMO it is an audiophile myth that conical is the way to go with vintage mono. I agree 100%. Just because the conical was the tool of the day to play mono doesn't mean the advanced profiles would have been shunn... | |
| Cable from SUT to Phono Preamp The interface from the SUT to the phono stage is a low level high impedance node the the goal here is to use a short, shielded, low capacitance cable. The need for shielding is a noise pickup thing and is at odds with the low capacitance goal. K... | |
| Stylus shapes! My favorite part is the diagram that shows how the effective tracking angle changes with the different stylus shapes. That is indeed exactly what happens. Regardless of stylus shape the effective tracking angle is constantly changing, sometimes dr... | |
| Help me understand compliance! I think the difference between #5 and #6 is that #5 refers to a mismatch of a low compliance cart to a low mass arm and #6 refers to the mismatch of a high compliance cart to a high mass arm.Either way... the big thing that is overlooked by every... | |
| Help me understand compliance! I find the Korf Audio blog post linked above to be very interesting and am surprised nobody makes note of the fact that he seems to call out the "way everyone does it" as flawed. I have tried to back out the actual compliance from other know para... | |
| L-Pads. Speakers Awful Without Them, New Ones Ordered Hey Erik,Paul Klipsch must be one of those scoundrels because he routinely used autoformers for level matching and in keeping up with the scoundrels...I for one think all L-pads and resistive networks for attenuation should be binned in favor of a... | |
| L-Pads. Speakers Awful Without Them, New Ones Ordered Elliot,while a 5 position switch and 5 different single resistors may adjust level as shown in the EV crossover, it is not an L-pad. When you get into technical discussions, the proper use of terminology is important so people at all levels of ... | |
| L-Pads. Speakers Awful Without Them, New Ones Ordered Elliot...two things...- the EV six you referenced does not use an L-pad... advanced or any other type.-why is this discussion happening in the analog forum where it is decidedly off topic? Wouldn't the speaker or vintage forum be a more appropria... | |
| L-Pads. Speakers Awful Without Them, New Ones Ordered Sadly Bob passed away two weeks ago.dave | |
| L-Pads. Speakers Awful Without Them, New Ones Ordered Well the first thing you need to do is define what you mean by L-pad. It appears as if what you purchased on ebay is a simple rheostat or a linear attenuator which is not the same thing as an L-pad.In my opinion on the most basic level the goal of... | |
| Copper, silver, or gold MC cartridge coils? can somebody clarify if there are indeed cartridges wound with platinum coils? Some of the Koetsu's have platinum cobalt magnets and VDH does make a platinum IC but I have yet to see confirmation of platinum wound MC coils. | |
| Copper, silver, or gold MC cartridge coils? very small statistical sample at this point but I find that both the silver and gold are more musical than the copper. The silver tends toward a clean clear dynamic sound and the gold has a musical quality that can just sound "right". At this p... | |
| What about Uni Din? @mijostyn, Having looked at lots of stylus profiles under a microscope at various magnifications I think it would be exceedingly hard to confirm zenith angle to say 10 minutes. I'll side with Raul that even with the best tools setting the same c... | |
| What about Uni Din? Why doesn't anyone ever mention that the whole idea of alignment by protractor is flawed since it assumes that the Zenith of the diamond is precisely 90.0°? Zenith being skewed by 0.3° is enough to make alignment A behave as alignment B. If you... |