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| Why does my system sound so shrill and distorted? Where are you located? If in NYC - we can arrange you come over to my place with a favorite record, I go to yours. Can compare and contrast. Sometimes it is not related to tonearm etc. But instead something completely different. Like you don't hav... | |
| Buzz with all power off Digital Cell phones (Blackberry in particular) can induce current on wires. Happens in conference calls all the time. Are you in an apartment next to a neighbor with a blackberry? | |
| Bi-wire v's single with jumper leads. Sorry everybody. I didn't realize it was a 3 yr old thread. There it was on the first page of topics. :)Anyhow - I agree inductance and even the total impedance which includes capacitance as well, but given the level of discussion and the incorrec... | |
| Stylus Drag I have an older VPI MKIII with the stand alone motor assembly. Stylus drag is exactly what tells me when my belt is getting too stretched out and the motor needs to be re-positioned.It is especially apparent when there is a loud sustained line (kr... | |
| Bi-wire v's single with jumper leads. I'm reading a bunch of stuff in these posts that doesn't make sense. The reason bi-wiring works is due to the finite but definite level of resistance a wire has. If you send a current to the tweeter and woofer and the crossover splits it and then ... | |
| Your jaw dropping cables Signal Cable, the silver resolution series. Used to use MI330 and then tried microperl (good at short lengths) but the open transparency of these interconnects, speaker cables and power cords and their reasonable price are unbeatable. | |
| Tube failure -- what would happen in worst case? Self biasing or not, the problem comes when a cathode to anode short happens in a power tube. The least damage is blowing a fuse in the amp. But for me, the cathode resistor gets fried immedately and needs replacement. This also happened on a curr... | |
| are some phono stages more resistant to hum? You also may have wired your cartridge incorrectly. If your wire joins the shield and the "negative" lead then you could get hum (I don't know the specifics of your wiring harness).But make sure you've plugged in the right color wire to the right ... | |
| DIY Bearing availability Why not buy the platter upgrade for the VPI series turntable? It includes the bearing and the platter that is used on the classic. $800 from music direct. Can't beat the price can you? Or if you can please let me know! | |
| upgrading VPI turntable I wanted to get away from the huge surface area of the plinth. My theory being that a large surface area would only serve to couple better to low frequency sound waves. Also brass has a very nice "ductile" quality making it a bit dead acoustically... | |
| WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE LINN K 9 CARTRIDGE? Audio Technica ATE 95E stylus will fit it. You can buy the Audio Technica cartridge complete for $40 online. Was the OEM for Linn on this product. Price point should tell you something about the relative quality of that product. | |
| upgrading VPI turntable I replaced the entire suspension and plinth on my MKIII with a 1/2" X 3" brass "T" supported by 2" Brass columns. I drilled the bearing hole and machined a slot for my SME-V tonearm and the whole thing sits on sorbo pucks. I am using my SAMA to dr... | |
| JMW 10.5 vs SME V One piece of follow up information for you folks. According to the very helpful customer service people at SME:SME V has always had only one revision of bearings since the beginning of production. The only change that has been made has been to the... | |
| Rickie Lee Jones "Pop Pop" LOL! I bought this (CD) because I heard so much about it, but women talking baby talk is like scratching your finger nails on a blackboard to me. This is your problem, not the audio quality.COULD NOT STAND IT!Had to sell it ASAP. What pablum.JK | |
| JMW 10.5 vs SME V OK I serviced the "dashpot" on my SME V. There is a design issue on the dashpot that I take issue with: the width of the piston is wider than the lengtth of the side of the piston that articulates with the dashpot well. Any mechanical engineer wil... |