johnnyb53
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| Newbie, old timer or returned to analog? I grew up on LPs, but lost most of them to a flood when I was 24. Then a couple years later my cat jumped off my turntable, sending it to the floor. It never worked right after that. With a broken turntable and a decimated record collection I deci... | |
| Cartridge headshell, what would you choose and why? I have both Sumiko and LP Gear ZuPreme headshells. When I first got the Sumiko it was $40. Now they're $90 and the ZuPreme is still $54.95. Not only is the ZuPreme significantly cheaper, it is the same with one difference that I prefer: The ZuPrem... | |
| No cartridge is good enough. Well, since my LP rig regularly transports me to the artists' performance, place, and time, I have little urge to mess with it at present. Live performances have greater varieties of non-linearities, ambient noise, room acoustics, energy of perfor... | |
| No cartridge is good enough. To the original OP's question, I don't have direct experience on this matter, but I suspect that a Soundsmith strain gauge cartridge (http://www.sound-smith.com/cartridges/strain-gauge-systems/strain-gauge-systems) mounted on an air-driven linear ... | |
| A new player in the quality Mono cartridge game I've been looking through my original and subsequent posts, and realize I have conflated two different Audio Technica moving coil mono cartridges: The ATMONO3/LP, which has 1.2mV output and is the one that I have, and the AT33MONO, which is 0.3mV ... | |
| Help me choose a mono cartridge The standard Ortofon 2M Mono runs about $350, and being MM, is high output. The AT-33MONO is low output. However, the AT-MONO3/LP is very similar but with relatively high output--1.2mV. I have that one and it doesn't need a step-up transformer.The... | |
| Rega, Pro-Ject, Technics SL-1200 The Technics brings some outstanding performance parameters at low cost, such as s/n ratio (78dB weighted) and speed accuracy (wow & flutter 0.01 to 0.025%). The shortcomings, often erroneously attributed to the direct drive mechanism, are vib... | |
| Open Baffle Convert 11-19-15: CjaronicaOpen baffle speakers load the room differently than a enclosed box. Bass increases rather than decreases as the speaker is moved away from the front wall.Yep. Just ask any Magnepan owner. With an open baffle design, the back wav... | |
| A new player in the quality Mono cartridge game Lewm, the full paragraph on the Ortofon website that you excerpted says:Quintet Mono uses a strapped output to deliver the same output signal from both sets of pole pins. This effectively eliminates the need for mono-specific equipment, making it ... | |
| A new player in the quality Mono cartridge game 11-13-15: LewmAnd Haha, here is a quote from Ortofon on their "Quintet Mono" cartridge. Caveat emptor:"Quintet Mono uses a strapped output to deliver the same output signal from both sets of pole pins."Thus, even for a given manufacturer, one must... | |
| A new player in the quality Mono cartridge game 11-13-15: LewmAnd Haha, here is a quote from Ortofon on their "Quintet Mono" cartridge. Caveat emptor:"Quintet Mono uses a strapped output to deliver the same output signal from both sets of pole pins."Thus, even for a given manufacturer, one must... | |
| A new player in the quality Mono cartridge game 11-09-15: LewmJohnny, What is a "phono head with a mono switch"?I just meant a mono switch at the phono stage instead of the line stage. Beyond that I don't know and don't care. The mono switch is a footnote in the history of high fidelity. Handy ... | |
| A new player in the quality Mono cartridge game 11-09-15: LewmJohnny, What is a "phono head with a mono switch"?I just meant a mono switch at the phono stage instead of the line stage. Beyond that I don't know and don't care. To me the mono switch is a footnote in the history of high fidelity. ... | |
| A new player in the quality Mono cartridge game Hey Lewm, I found some threads that may address the mono switch feature you were talking about.Here's something to consider, however. Some mono switches may occurr at the phono stage; others may be implemented at the line stage. They would behave ... | |
| A new player in the quality Mono cartridge game 11-05-15: FleibElimination of vertical noise is a great advantage with a mono cart as Johnnyb says. This can be dramatic with some older or beat up records.That's what I've been exploring with the AT33MONO cartridge the last few days. I've been di... |