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| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy For me, the most consistent difference between home audio and real life is dynamics. The most convincing demonstration of that was having a sax played live in my listening room, with the musician standing between the speakers. Wow! | |
| Vinyl Warm Up Time Solid state devices have an ideal operating temperature, just like tubes. Even if you leave your SS phono stage or preamplifier in "stand by" mode when it is not in use, the audio circuitry still has to warm up a bit after operating DC voltages ar... | |
| Vinyl Warm Up Time Joey, baby, a phono cartridge is most apt to "warm up" before sounding its best, among all other audio gear, IMO. It has suspended moving parts, and the suspension is made from organic materials or synthetic versions thereof. Those materials hav... | |
| Thorens TD124 “Mk1”/Mk2 plinth Larry, I don't claim to know much about resonance control, except by observation and an attempt to apply some logic. Also, I never know if I have achieved the best result possible based on the science. I only go by what I hear. For example, I li... | |
| Thorens TD124 “Mk1”/Mk2 plinth I can believe that cast iron is relatively nonresonant, if only because Albert Porter uses a large cube-shaped cast iron block to dampen the bearing inside his Panzerholz plinths for Technics SP10 mk3s and Mk2s. When I was creating my own plinth f... | |
| Thorens TD124 “Mk1”/Mk2 plinth Schopper call it “bronze”. Which is an alloy of mostly copper and some tin. No iron content. | |
| Thorens TD124 “Mk1”/Mk2 plinth Maybe. But if it’s the resonance of iron , then why would a nonferrous aftermarket subplatter suffice as a substitute where the mk2 nonferrous sub platter is judged to be inferior? | |
| Vinyl Warm Up Time Proof that no one reads anyone else’s post. | |
| Thorens TD124 “Mk1”/Mk2 plinth Why (for what reason) does anyone think the ferrous subplatter would sound best? I wonder. | |
| Thorens TD124 “Mk1”/Mk2 plinth Ignore my post of 07-08 at 4:30 PM. The test I described is to detect whether the weigh pan of a digital VTF scale is ferrous (some are); it obviously won't work to detect a magnetic attraction between the cartridge magnets and a ferrous platter ... | |
| Thorens TD124 “Mk1”/Mk2 plinth Larry, you fail to specify whether the TD124 that causes no issues with the various cartridges you name is a mk1 or mk2 type. One sensitive way to check for magnetic attraction is to set VTF with a digital gauge and then, with the gauge still in p... | |
| Thorens TD124 “Mk1”/Mk2 plinth I think the main difference is mk1 had a ferrous platter that can play havoc with a LOMC, whereas the mk2 platter is nonferrous. So yes there probably is no difference as regards the plinth. If I’m in error I trust I’ll be rapidly corrected. | |
| Vinyl Warm Up Time Warm up is a real thing and one need not resort to fantasy in order to understand it. Neither tubes nor transistors are at their best immediately after being awakened from cold (which is an argument in favor of leaving SS gear powered up at all ti... | |
| Help with cartridge choice for Linn LP-12, Ittok turntable Based on the reference you kindly provided, setting VTA for the new Lyra does not appear appear to be any different from previous, the difference is in the geometry within the cartridge body itself. | |
| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy McLeod, how many among us can say he or she has heard unamplified music in a concert hall? Most of us regularly hear live music in a small venue, amplified. Some of us do attend concert halls, always also amplified. Yet still one hall sounds diff... |