jjss49
Responses from jjss49
| Cartridge reccomdations? opu need to provide a lot more info to get helpful responsessystem? in particular phono front end and amplificationbudget? | |
| Adding mass to a tonearm look on ebayplenty of headshell weights, screws etc etc cheap and easy to experiment | |
| Bob Marley Turntable - not good at all i hear... other cheaper options like u turn are supposedly much better... this is second hand info - i have not tested myself | |
| High mass vs Low Mass Turntables - Sound difference? so back to the ORIGINAL QUESTION...anyone here able to do direct, head on comparisons?i just care about the sound... | |
| 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... |