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| How Much to Spend on Turntable, Cart., Phono Pre "Secondly, in many cases the collective opinions on the internet do a lot to describe basic aspects or characteristics of gear that people might know." It is my opinion only that you would do better to do a search for reviews of any two pieces of... | |
| How Much to Spend on Turntable, Cart., Phono Pre At its present state of development and in relation to choosing audio components, ChatGPT and AI in general are complete horse poop. Those programs only summarize uncritically all the BS that’s already available on the internet. There is no “intel... | |
| Best way to spend my money Many responders do not seem to realize that the OP is running 15 foot cables NOT between his TT and his phono stage (bad idea) but between his phono stage and linestage. That is perfectly OK, but since they are both balanced devices, it seems remi... | |
| What do you do when you get a bad vinyl record pressing? "I had my latest disappointment with The Cult. I remember the album, which I had on CD, from my college days and recalled there were some pretty cool songs on the album. In fact I recall liking the whole album. I wondered how it would sound on my ... | |
| Phono cartridge choice If you can bear another negative comment, I’ve owned two Benz Gliders, HO versions, and found them to be meh. I also was underwhelmed even more by a Sumiko Blackbird. In fact I prefer HO MM or MI cartridges over HOMC. If you want HO, I’d go for ei... | |
| Best way to spend my money The 15 footer is carrying high level signal from the Goldnote, the way I read it. Anyway the Goldnote and Pass are both balanced so you ought to be using a 15 foot balanced cable between them with XLR termination. | |
| Help me Identify Electrical Noise/Distortion in my System A place to look for a possible problem regarding the dropout you get when you wiggle the R channel input is inside the chassis where there should be a wire soldered to the RCA jack or actually two wires, one to the hot and one to the ground pin on... | |
| Help me Identify Electrical Noise/Distortion in my System No. Where did you place the leads? In other words, these resistances were measured between where and where? | |
| Help me Identify Electrical Noise/Distortion in my System So you proved now that the problem is upstream from the distal end of the DHL cable. Not the cable itself. | |
| Impedance Loading for SS Hyperion For the record, SS says the inductance of the Hyperion is 2.75 mH, about 100X to 1000X higher than a typical very LOMC. And about 200X lower than a typical MM. | |
| Help me Identify Electrical Noise/Distortion in my System When you swapped L and R cables in the first experiment, did you swap at both ends or only at one end? | |
| Help me Identify Electrical Noise/Distortion in my System Tiny tonearm wires have to make a right angle turn at the pivot. Check there’s no binding there. Also if the lift mechanism is set very close to the arm tube, it can interfere with travel across the LP. That’s easy to detect once you know to look ... | |
| which turntable or how to convert to balanced phono setup? Ralph (Atma), thanks for the clear explanation of AES48. Your statement that the XLR inputs on the TEAC offer only MC gain levels makes sense but the owners manual never actually says as much, or maybe I have to re-read it. The device does have se... | |
| Help me Identify Electrical Noise/Distortion in my System On the issue of mistracking, I assume you’ve checked VTF. What VTF gauge do you use and where are you with respect to the recommended VTF range of values? | |
| Help me Identify Electrical Noise/Distortion in my System You may have a noisy attenuator on the R channel, except you say streaming is distortion-free. When streaming do you attenuate at the digital device or do you use the Sim attenuator? |