larryi
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| Buffer pre or active pre... Hi5,It appears that you are talking about an active buffer linestage with unity or close to unity gain vs. an active linestage with some gain. If you don't need the gain, the simpler circuit should sound better. The buffer linestagestage, if well ... | |
| Buffer pre or active pre... When you say buffer pre, you are talking about an active preamp, the buffer being an active component. Do you mean a unity gain (no gain) buffer preamp vs. one with gain? Or, are you confusing active vs. passive (no amplification stage or buffer s... | |
| What footer best under cd player As others have mentioned, there is no "best" and no real way to determine what works best for you except experimentation. It is NOT the case that the more isolation/absorption of vibration the better the sonic result. A bunch of friends tried diff... | |
| Which is the most tubelike solid state amp around I am a tube person, but, more specifically, I like low-powered triode tubes (I run a SET 2a3 amp in my system). There is nothing quite like a SET amp to get all the beautiful harmonics and texture of instruments right and to get notes to bloom nat... | |
| Surface Noice, yubes and solid state Atmasphere,That is a very interesting, and plausible, explanation. Ringing does make sharp, short impulses, such as a record surface blemish, seem much louder. When I want to play music loudly late at night I use a pair of Stax Omega II electrosta... | |
| Cartridge Setup w/Geodisc by MoFi A friend has a Geodisc and I have a Feickert. When setting up an arm where the pivot point can be easily sited, they come quite close to agreement on proper alignment (we used both on a Schroeder Reference). I much prefer the Feickert for ease of ... | |
| Antiskating .... The last analog secret I set antiskating by ear, using a Shure test record (i.e., a torture test with increasing modulation levels). Setting antiskating this way always improves the ability to track test records. Frankly, I have so few regular records that my cartridge ... | |
| Transformer-coupled tube phono pres I believe that some of the Audionote (uk) phono stages are transformer coupled (referred to as balanced output). These are truly cost-is-no-object designs, so there must be something good about using transformers for the output. Audionote uses tra... | |
| Buying expensive used CD player/transp = bad idea? If it is a very expensive piece of gear, I would consult with the manufacturer about availability of parts or whole assemblies. Most long term manufacturers will have an inventory, but even that may not last. If you are really committed to a parti... | |
| Difference between micro line and gyger s stylus Salectric,The Gyger stylus would help with inner groove distortion. Inner grooves have tighter twists and turns because the same amount (time) of information is squeezed into a smaller diameter. The much narrower profile of these types of styli ca... | |
| Difference between micro line and gyger s stylus Both the various gyger and micro line stylus shapes have very narrow vertical contact patches that are "tall" (contacts the groove from the bottom of the groove to the top). This demands quite precise azimuth adjustment. I doubt that there would b... | |
| Ortofon Per Windfeld Load Impedance? Jloveys,The friend borrowing the Tron Seven has a system cobbled together from an ElectroVoice system (15" woofer with a folded horn, horn tweeter) and a huge multicellular midrange horn and compression driver of different manufacture. He has a bi... | |
| 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... |