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| 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... | |
| Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active I do, it retails for $3500 and has had stellar reviews.Which phono stage is this? I agree with you on the phase issues and at some low and high frequency a transformer is going to shift phase and I think that the shift at high frequencies is much... | |
| Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active I might have been a little unclear above when I typed:I do not consider the use of the rather heavy secondary load in addition to a Zobel as a sonically acceptable solution.That should read:I do not consider the use of the rather heavy secondary l... | |
| Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active I specifically chose the 4722 to avoid the appearance of throwing another manufacturer under the bus so to speak. The only place I have seen signal level have an effect on frequency response in SUT's was with units wound on cores with poor low le... | |
| Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active 18:1 is a bit on the high side for a 103 but not terrible. Problem with the higher step up and the 40Ω cart is any capacitance on the secondary claims the 20kHz+ info quickly. The 103 is a 0.3mV cart and into a 1:18 loaded with 47K you get reall... | |
| Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active Ralph,Cartridge loading is another hotly contested subject that is best to save for a new discussion. It seems we both agree that applying a load through the secondary of a SUT has a much greater chance of changing the SUT behavior in an audible ... |