jjss49
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| ZYX Ultimate with carbon fiber cantilevers -- listener reviews? I have a r100 ultimate I'm going to try soon... will report in with my impressions in due course Mehran swears it bests the old Yatra and Fuji... I won't be able to establish that but I'll consider it against my AT Art 9 and Koetsu Black... | |
| ZYX Ultimate with carbon fiber cantilevers -- listener reviews? elmers glue, and tiny tweezers?? LOL | |
| AudioTechnica ART 9 users - break in, VTF/VTA and loading questions replying to Bryantdrew:My Zyx isn’t working right... need to tweak the setup more before I render a really informed opinion.Couple things to say at the outset:1. ART 9 easier to set up and dial in, though I agree, tweaking it can make it sound eve... | |
| Distortion mystery -- MC cart mistracking? / transformer / head amp input saturation?? Peter Ledermann at Soundsmith called me upon receiving my Zyx, and he said the cartridge looks fine... minimal wear on the stylus, stylus is clean, suspension looks fine. He then asked about my setup. When I said I was not using the VPI JMW arm an... | |
| Distortion mystery -- MC cart mistracking? / transformer / head amp input saturation?? no i am now determining that it isn’t electrically overloading the cartridge distorts at the same points on the same records using all step-up and amplification methodsthe zyx is definitely not tracking properly or is somehow damagedi have used th... | |
| VPI paper alignment jig I understand the metal VPI jig for the JMW 10/10.5 arms and the Mint LP protractors set the cartridges in very very very similar positions, just the Mint LP puts the needle point just a hair back, one the same forward/back line... has that been ot... | |
| Anti Static zerostat gun-or-used dryer anti cling sheets | |
| Distortion mystery -- MC cart mistracking? / transformer / head amp input saturation?? Further on this... I have discovered the Zyx cartridges' output is measured at 3.54 cm and the ART 9 output is measured at 5 cm... so measurement standards are in fact quite different. So taken at face value, the R100H output is 41% higher than t... | |
| Distortion mystery -- MC cart mistracking? / transformer / head amp input saturation?? to dover and almargyes you are both quite right... thank you almarg - my unit is a ANS2 ’H’, thank you so much for your calculations i had been using the L setting of the ANS2, which in fact provides slightly more gain than the H setting (counter-... | |
| Distortion mystery -- MC cart mistracking? / transformer / head amp input saturation?? @sfall I totally get it that carts change a lot with break in... but this distortion sounds like mistracking or some kind of input overload.... not sure a less-than-broken-in cart would sound this way.... or am I wrong about that? | |
| Phono cable recommendations - high performance good value cable thanks all for your various inputbought some of heiko's c37 cryo finewire... they are on their way from germany ...currently enjoying the zu audio missions... rest of my system is zu varial interconnects (with mapleshade speaker wires)... so it wi... | |
| Bad vinyl i have the same experience and frustration... recently back into analog and bought a lot of records ... from all the major vendors - soundstage direct, elusive, musicdirect, etc. i would say 1 of 3 titles is defective... skips, big pops, warps, di... | |
| DIY phono loading plugs question omg i did not realize he was trying to do that to a 47k ohm mm phono section - LOLwell, never mind..... :) | |
| DIY phono loading plugs question http://daveyw.edsstuff.org/vinyl/loading/this info is for mm carts but the principles are the same and the math is the same | |
| AudioTechnica ART 9 users - break in, VTF/VTA and loading questions just getting around to trying the zyx r100h against the art 09... finally felt i had the art 09 sufficiently broken in to understand what it does, under varying VTA, loading and step up conditions.... now mounting the r100h and will run that a whi... |