larryi
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| Are Dust Covers a MUST Dustcovers that remain attached to the table usually do affect the sound detrimentally, whether played with the cover up or down. I have one that fits over my Basis table, so it must be removed completely to put on a record. I no longer use it at ... | |
| Ortofon Per Windfeld Load Impedance? Jloveys,I did not get a chance to hear the Tron 7 in my own system, but in my friend's system, I got to hear it with two different sets of 12AX7s. I did not find the Mullards too lean, as you found them, but, they were extremely phasey sounding, p... | |
| Ortofon Per Windfeld Load Impedance? Jloveys,Perhaps you should ask Allaerte about the right resistor to achieve proper dampening of the cartridge. I bet the value is different from the 845 ohms specified, given that the primary of the transformer represents a load different from tha... | |
| Ortofon Per Windfeld Load Impedance? Jloveys,I will have an opportunity this weekend to play around with a friends Tron Seven. Another mutual friend has it while the owner is out of town. The "agenda" for this weekend is tube rolling. My friend has a big selection of 12AX7s as well a... | |
| My favorite Steely Dan song has to be... Wireless,Yup, but Owsley was more than a promoter, he was a chemist who actually made LSD that was very popular for its strength and purity back in the day. | |
| Ortofon Per Windfeld Load Impedance? Mr. Karsten,How, in layman's terms, would one go about "ringing" a cartridge with a square wave and observing the waveform? Are you talking about a special test record and an oscilloscope, or feeding an electrical signal (square wave)into the cart... | |
| Ortofon Per Windfeld Load Impedance? Jonathan Carr,Thanks for your explanation. I thought Mr. Karsten's comments about there being one right loading, in terms of proper electrical dampening of the cartridge made sense, but, it did not exactly square with my experience that the best l... | |
| My favorite Steely Dan song has to be... For just one pick, its "Kid Charlemagne." Even drug dealers need to be honored in song. Since no one else mentioned it, I would add "Bad Sneaker" for an "honorable' mention. | |
| Graham Phantom set up I don't have a Phantom, though a friend has that arm and we set antiskating by ear. To do this, we used a Shure test record that has instruments being played at progressively higher levels. At some level, the cartridge will begin to mistrack. The ... | |
| Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment I wondered about the airflow issue that you mentioned. But, it could also be an optical issue. Certainly other treatments tout the improvement in the optical characteristics of the surface of the CD. One more thing, RainX leaves haze and streaks (... | |
| Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment Does anything touch the CD surface while in play? I would guess that any improvement would be purely an optical phenomenon. My concern would be for long-term effects. Has anyone determined whether the stuff will either react with the CD surface or... | |
| Highly Recommended CHILL OUT CDs??? How about a few "classical" and jazz chill out suggestions:George Gurdjieff: Chants, Hymns and Dances (classical)Franquiz Ali-Zade: Mugam Sayagi (classical--Kronos Quartet)Somei Satoh: Birds in Warped Time II (classical/minimalist, will be hard to... | |
| Best cover songs? I am not saying these are "better" than originals, but, I like the following:Be Good Tanyas "Waiting Around to Die" (Townes Van Zandt)Cowboy Junkies "Thunder Road" (Springsteen)Shonen Knife "Top of the World" (Richard Carpenter)Nouvelle Vague "Gun... | |
| Squealing Unico That kind of intermittent whistling is probably coming from one of the small signal tubes. As Ncarv mentioned, you can try to reduce microphony by reseating the tube, or you could try tube dampeners. I have that problem, though nothing, except ign... | |
| What Happens When Preamp Tubes Need Replacing? Karelfd,I run two Telefunken ECC803S tubes in a phonostage. I don't have an extra pair, so I am relying heavily on their reputation for outlasting the owner. Yes, they are now shockingly expensive, but, I have not heard anything close to that tube... |