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| Suggestions for cartridges for Rega P8 Does Mr Gandy really claim that VTA doesn’t matter? | |
| Suggestions for cartridges for Rega P8 Conversation jumped from compliance and effective mass to VTA, in one fell swoop. So far as resonant frequency goes, if you use a calculator on the internet be sure to add the weight of the new cartridge to the base value for tonearm effective mas... | |
| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy Or ceramic | |
| Suggestions for cartridges for Rega P8 Tonearms don’t have “compliance” that figures into the equation for resonant frequency. Tonearms have “effective mass” . Resonant frequency is determined by cartridge compliance and tonearm effective mass. Because the cartridge body weight adds to... | |
| Suggestions for cartridges for Rega P8 Soko, You wrote, "light weight to match well with the Rega RB880 arm - I am not interested in any tweaks to have to add weight to the arm or headshell to accommodate admittedly unlimited choices, although if I have to use a spacer for the non VTA ... | |
| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy While what you wrote, and what I am about to write, has absolutely nothing to do with the "topic", such as it is a topic, I will add that I too have found that upgrading the capacitors used in the RC type RIAA network makes a tremendous difference... | |
| Best way to spend my money I have used AntiCables interconnects for years, when I don’t want to make my own. Very good bang for the buck. Also I’d look at the “used” market. Cables don’t wear out. | |
| SME style headshell recommendations Most of us go on the assumption that any head shell with a bayonet mount will fit any tone arm with a bayonet receiving mount. While it is true that you can almost always make that work in the loose sense of the word, I have found that not all hea... | |
| 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... |