kevemaher
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| Gonna have to ditch the Soundsmith Carmen II @helomech Your recent post is the first time that I've read that the alignment can affect the sibilance. I know of course that alignment determines how the geometrical distortion is distribulte on an LP. I have sibilance problems with some LPs. I... | |
| Gonna have to ditch the Soundsmith Carmen II @helomech Your recent post is the first time that I've read that the alignment can affect the sibilance. I know of course that alignment determines how the geometrical distortion is distribulte on an LP. I have sibilance problems with some LPs. I... | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge @rauliruegas Please read the F9 manual posted by farsch on he Vinyl Engine website. Both impedances are mentioned, but 47K is the only one in the spec list. I'm pretty sure that Grace knew what they were doing. | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge @rauliruegas I load the cartridge with 47K. Total capacitance of cables and phono input is about 150 pf. I make my own phono cables. the bulk cable has a capacitance of 17 pf/ft, measured by me. Short runs have little capacitance, about 50 pf in t... | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge @lewm Thanks for the suggestions. It was definitely a worn out stylus. As I mentioned, I really wasn't aware of the care that cartridges require. A year or so ago, when I knew a bunch more and had performed over 20 alignments I pulled the cartrid... | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge @lewm The alignment must have been way off. I never bothered with alignment over three moves. I just never thought about it. I have since been educated. Believe me, it sounded horrible. In fixing this problem I noticed that the stylus kept skippi... | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge @lewm Thanks for the suggestion about Tinnitis.; I have my ears checked regularly. Never a mention of Tinnitis or any other kind of hearing loss except for the loss of high frequencies. I looked online for symptoms. I don't have any. This is cle... | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge @piebaldpython Yes, I am still running the original tubes made in Hungary. I purchased this preamp in 1980. It was in my system for about two years. I devloped a problem with the volume going to max if I touched the pot. At that time, I had littl... | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge @lewm I've found that the setting of the Anti-Skate is more difficult for MC cartridges. Separation must be nailed exactly for best performance. It is more difficult to find arm/headshell combinations that will produce resonance in the sweet zone.... | |
| ZYX "House" Sound @linnlp12 Thanks for the good words about the DD-40! I measured all the tables I had a few months ago using an app that measures and reports RPM and WOW and Flutter. One can quibble about absolute accuracy, but comparisons among tables does indic... | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge I've found a solution to my dislike of screechy highs. And it was right in my cartridge drawer! I installed my very old Grace F9 body with a Soundsmith RS-9E stylus assembly (plugs in). The stylus assembly is constructed of an Alimunum Cantileve... | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge Thanks everybody for your comments. I've learned via this thread that there are about as many opinions as there are posts. I must think. | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge @elliottbnewcombjr Thanks for your offer. I am in California, long way from you. I do all the adjustments you've mentioned. I am obsessed with getting them set correctly. I use a 31 band EQ (yeah, I know, evil stuff). I can drop the treble and b... | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge @baylinor I must be looking for the wrong things, as when I've fooled around with VTA, I wind up at parallel again. It may be that I can't discern the subtleties of this adjustment well enough to set it. Please explain what you look for and what ... | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge @drvinyl01 Hi, could you elaborate on your post? In your opinion what exactly is wrong with my system? I very carefully align my cartridge to the arm and table. I perform all the needed adjustments. I use an arc protractor that I created from an ... |