jbernhard

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Anyone have experience with Soundsmith’s strain gauge?
I think @spiritofmusic has covered this well.I have an SG-210 system and have used various cartridges in the past: Lyras, Clearaudios, Ortofons...but the most recent vintage of those is a Titan 'i', which I used with an Audio Research Ref Phono, w... 
MC phono stage without transformer?
I attended one of Roy Gregory's demos of (among other things) equalization issues and their remedy with the Zanden. The differences are not well explain IMHO by merely the vagaries of mastering. I also researched a bit the RIAA standard and when i... 
MC TRANSFORMERS VS TUBE PRE PRE
I'm late responding to this but hope this will be helpful.I have an ARC Ref Phono (with built-in Jensen JT-346-AX transformers, factory configured at 1:12) and a pair of Mu transformers (S&B TX-103 Cu) that I originally configured at 1:10. For...