johnnyb53
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| Vintage MONO Cartridge Question ? lopscri wrote:An answer to my original question ? Buelller........Bueller.......Maybe you should write some vintage enthusiasts, such as Art Dudley w/Stereophile. You need someone really familar with old mono carts, which isn't exactly mainstre... | |
| Vintage MONO Cartridge Question ? A true mono cartridge, which has only one coil, can have vertical compliance without generating any noise as a result, if there is no mechanism to transduce vertical movement into an audio signal.My point exactly. Vertical compliance by itself doe... | |
| Vintage MONO Cartridge Question ? I don't really care if the specs allow for some vertical crosstalk. When I lower the needle of my *stereo* cartridge (using the damped cueing lever), there is a loud THUMP! When I lower the needle with my AT-MONO3/LP, its landing is TOTALLY INAUDI... | |
| Vintage MONO Cartridge Question ? A mono cartridge whose cantilever can deflect vertically can still be "true mono" if it creates no signal in that vertical motion. Such cartridges have the stationery coils aligned to respond only to vertical motion. The vertical compliance protec... | |
| Vintage MONO Cartridge Question ? I take it you want a cartridge that will play pre-1962 mono records in their native mode--in other words, not a cartridge designed to track both mono and stereo records. In other words, with only two signal pinouts (+ and -), and cantilever compli... | |
| Vintage MONO Cartridge Question ? Grado doesn't do moving coil. They have two elliptical stylus moving iron cartridges, the MC+ with a 3-piece telescoped cantilever for $90 and the ME+ with 4-piece cantilver for $150. The last time I checked, the ME+ was a Stereophile recommended ... | |
| Can I convert stereo to mono for a phono input Just play a mono LP with your stereo cartridge. For a long time, I used a stereo cartridge for everything. One time I was playing a mono Prestige repress of a Miles Davis album. I was sitting in the sweet spot, and the soundstage was emerging from... | |
| $2000 turntable system leotis wrote:... Just as I feared... I prefer the sound of vinyl. So my fairly extensive digital library is gonna be playing second fiddle. And I'm gonna have to have to pile real $$$ into the vinyl....After 20 straight years of listening only to ... | |
| $2000 turntable system hifiron:I would recommend a VPI Scout or Vinyl Nirvana (http://vinylnirvana.com/)leotis already bought his system, a GEM Polytable with Jelco 750D tonearm and Hana EL feeding a Vincent PHO-8 tube-driven phono stage. | |
| $2000 turntable system leotis: Great calls all around. You went a little over your budget, but the upgrades are all money well spent: Jelco 750D tonearm, Vincent PHO-8, and Hana EL. The reviews I've read about the Hana cartridges are very favorable and they're consisten... | |
| 2.0 Stereo speakers on a $2000 budget? I have two suggestions that come in right at your price point ($2K):Magnepan 1.7 and Monitor Audio Silver Series 8.I auditioned the Magnepans powered by an NAD C 375BEE and it was a good match--smooth and natural, it let the Maggies show off what ... | |
| Hated my Pro-Ject Debut III looking for another budget option. Kind of thinking Thorens There are some fairly low-cost mods you can do to your sl1200 to improve its sound well beyond its price. | |
| $2000 turntable system Yogiboy wrote: This is nice at $1495 for table.Cartridge $350.The Vincent phono looks like a winner at $299http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/gem-dandy-polytable/Not only did the GEM Polytable fare well in the Absolute Sound review, it got C... | |
| Subwoofer options for Magnepan with crossover betwen pre and amp? Not a fan of bass assist above 50hz..the maggies do well on bass color but hit problems in pedal tone octaves. One of the reasons I bought MG 1.7s was because as a tuba player I could hear they got the mid and upper bass right for timbre and artic... | |
| Subwoofer options for Magnepan with crossover betwen pre and amp? ^^^When I wrote "I heard 'em" I actually heard a pair of JL Fathom F212s mated to a pair of Magnepan 20.1s. Still, the integration was seamless and turned the 20.1s into a very dynamic full range system for a fraction of the price of the Wilson Al... |