keegiam
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| Jazz for aficionados @frogman "Husky." Sheer genius. I've never heard "husky" used to describe a player's sound, but anyone who is truly dialed in gets it. | |
| Jazz for aficionados "Nowhere on the continent of Africa can be found the quality of African rhythms and music as in Brazil; the musical soul of Sub Sahara Africa sailed away on a slave ship."Your conclusion that the musical soul of Africa "sailed away" to another ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @frogman I spent a couple hours here tonight exploring everyone's posts. Amazing stuff but... your Turrentine cut is tops. TYSM! | |
| Internal Wire Upgrade for SME V @slaw Thanks for the tip. Actually it's mazeaudio.com (no hyphen). | |
| Internal Wire Upgrade for SME V @geof3 Thanks to you as well. You mentioned smetonearms.com a couple days ago. | |
| Internal Wire Upgrade for SME V @cardani Yes, thank you for that advice re: smetonearms.com. I checked immediately: $350 + shipping. Includes a thorough cleaning and new parts where needed. Cardas 4x33 18k gold litz, 1.25 meters to Swiss 18k gold rca connectors. Seems very r... | |
| Internal Wire Upgrade for SME V Thank you all for your views, knowledge and experience. My choice is now clear: either send the arm to SME to install the AN-to-RCA cable or stick with the original.I will assess the logistics and costs and reach a decision soon. | |
| Internal Wire Upgrade for SME V Maybe it's the last thing I could do, but the time is now. This technician works at the same shop where I bought my SOTA Star Sapphire 30 years ago, just a few blocks away. He already has the table and is replacing the bearing. He will be insta... | |
| Internal Wire Upgrade for SME V Chakster and mijostyn, the wiring would be replaced by the service expert as part of his installation of my new AT cartridge. I haven't seen anything in the forums suggesting that a professional has ruined a tonearm during a service like this.Do ... | |
| AT-ART9XI Cartridge - Reduced Compliance Hit a speed bump. Looking into ordering the XA, I noticed its dynamic compliance is 10 (x10-6 @ 100 Hz) vs. 15 for the XI. 10 seems quite low for the SME V with its 10/11 gram effective mass.I believe I read somewhere that viscous damping, which... | |
| AT-ART9XI Cartridge - Reduced Compliance Thank you Raul. The Classe Six manual says the MC gain is factory preset at +22dB and can be changed in 2dB increments by switching resistors (using silver solder). This morning I did some more research and found the KAB gain calculator, and for... | |
| AT-ART9XI Cartridge - Reduced Compliance @dover Good tip, I checked the gain spec on the Classe a while back but skipped over the minimum MC input. Yes, it is indeed .3mV. Concern with the Classe's gain is one reason I locked in on the original ART9 at .5mV. I don't want to have to ... | |
| AT-ART9XI Cartridge - Reduced Compliance OK so.... I auditioned the ART9, 9XI and 9XA at length using the Lp Gear YouTube through the sketchy bluetooth connection to my primary system.My main conclusion: I'm never going to intentionally listen to Pink Floyd's "The Wall" again. Clean sou... | |
| What other hobby... Best reply: dekay | |
| What other hobby... Sailing. |