lewm
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| Seeking advice Bill, I think at this point (24/7 for more than a week) you’re breaking in your ears and brain to the system sound, more than anything else. I assume you’ll go back to FL for the duration of the winter and early spring, leaving your NH house at so... | |
| I'm new to Step Up Transformers I am constantly surprised when others report they hear important differences between two different load resistances, using LOMC or LOMI cartridges, that are numerically very close to each other on a scale of 100 to 47K ohms. Like 725 vs 525 ohms o... | |
| I'm new to Step Up Transformers I’d say wait through 2-3 listening sessions at least one hour each in length, before making any judgement of a new cartridge, and that’s only if you’re very familiar on a long term basis with the phono stage. And even then, cartridges do change ov... | |
| I'm new to Step Up Transformers An MI cartridge with a 10 ohm internal resistance like the Paua and some other soundsmith MIs is not comparable to an LOMC with the same internal R, because LOMI cartridges have a MUCH higher inductance, at least 100X to 1000X higher than the LOMC... | |
| Is a Fluance RT 85 turntable worthy of a moderately priced moving coil cartridge? For a “moderate price” you’ll get more bang for the buck with an MM or MI cartridge in my opinion. Furthermore MC cartridges are not categorically superior to the other two types, also in my opinion. But my answer to your actual question is sure; ... | |
| I'm new to Step Up Transformers Atmasphere is also all tube high gain phono, as I mentioned earlier. I’ve owned an MP1 for two decades upgrading along the way. I also owned an Aesthetic Rhea Signature but not the Io. The Rhea is amazing for its remote controlability but was a ta... | |
| Linn LP12 turntable Yourlogic, No, you didn’t mislead me. I thought someone was commenting on the looks of the LP12. Apparently not. i have no idea what Mark200 is trying to say, on the other hand, except maybe he owns an LP12. | |
| I'm new to Step Up Transformers The Herron phono stage, now out of production but possibly available pre-owned, is another that achieves high gain with an FET based input stage followed by an all tube circuit. It was very highly regarded, one might say venerated, by some who fre... | |
| Kenwood KD 650, Stanton cartridge Photoboydc, don’t be disingenuous. It’s easy to determine an average value with a simple internet search. I’m not a buyer, but I think I’ve seen this unit at $500 or thereabouts. | |
| Linn LP12 turntable If the center speaker is not operating when you’re listening to vinyl, then obviously no problem. The “look” of the LP12 is pretty generic for mid-1970s. Neither beautiful nor ugly by those standards. Look at Ariston or Thorens from the same era ... | |
| Linn LP12 turntable Did you say you have a center channel speaker on a shelf above the one where you plan to put a TT? Not good. | |
| I'm new to Step Up Transformers There are many fine quality tube based phono stages that offer sufficient gain for a LOMC cartridge and do not contain a step up transformer internally. Many of those use a solid state or hybrid gain stage in order to achieve that goal (Manley, pr... | |
| Linn LP12 turntable Still a chance to settle down with a Technics 1200G, GAE, G2, or whatever you can find with a G in it, first or second hand. | |
| Declare the correct value on the Customs form? Are you asking whether “vinyl” is having “fun” with us? | |
| Final Analog Upgrades In selecting a phono stage, be aware that the SL has an internal resistance of 30 ohms and is therefore not well suited to any current driven (“trans impedance”) phono. |