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| 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... | |
| SUT into MM input section of Solid State Phono Stage There is a current trend of low impedance MC carts with 0.5mv or higher outputs. These carts combined with the high ratio SUT's commonly intended for LOMC's open the door for possible dynamic high frequency overload which presents itself as an ove... | |
| SUT into MM input section of Solid State Phono Stage What must be matched between a SUT and the cartridge is the SUT gain to the cartridge output level, this is the main issue and not impedance loading.Any SUT with the rigth gain can works with any cartridge with the adequated output level it does n... | |
| How to choose step up transformers? Hello,The 18Ω number is the cartridge internal impedance and essentially represents the DC resistance of the coils. This in effect is the source impedance driving the SUT and dictates the frequency behavior at both extremes.The 100Ω load impedanc... | |
| Best SUT For Van Den Hul Crimson Stradivarius cartridge Great news that you found the magic. The Kai with its 0.19mV output is a good match for your particular SUT / Phono combo. In order to hear the VDH in a similar situation you would need to use it with something like a 1:5 ratio SUT. The sound y... | |
| Teach me about cartridge 'retipping' FWIW... the above picture of the "glued" line contact diamond on a boron cantilever is a complete diamond / cantilever assembly bought from Namiki directly.https://ad-na-shop-en.myshopify.com/collections/boron-cantileverhttp:// dave | |
| Best SUT For Van Den Hul Crimson Stradivarius cartridge Hey I'm late to the game on this one but I have a customer who was using a Lyra Etna (0.56mv) with a 1:20 into his VPS100. He wanted a bit more system gain so he went for a 1:40 and things went south quickly. The highs got ragged and the sound b... | |
| Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active Dover,This simply means that the Zesto added the network in order to deal with the transformer behavior. That is very different than having a phono with that network at the input and then designing the transformer to work into it. This is an easil... |