lewm
Responses from lewm
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity 47,000/16 = ~3000 ohms. Difference between 3000 and 1000 ohms should not be audible BUT I don't know where you are going to find a SUT with a 1:4 turns ratio, unless you have it custom built, the cost of which is in my opinion exorbitant if you a... | |
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity So if you used a 1:10 SUT, that would work because you would still be OK as far as the ratio of output R to input R. (If the MM phono stage provides a 47K ohm resistance at its input, a 1:10 SUT would result in the cartridge seeing a 470 ohm load,... | |
| A weighty conundrum One other important issue with your two scales: be sure their weigh pans (the platform whereon you place the stylus tip) is totally nonmagnetic. Most steel has at least some iron in it, and that can really screw up measurement of VTF, because the ... | |
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity It’s impossible to help with your question about using a SUT with a Benz Glider, because there are so many versions of the Glider. Can you be more specific? What is the voltage output and what is the internal resistance or impedance? The original ... | |
| Need some help picking my first MC Cartridge I think the OP ought to limit his choices to true low internal resistance LOMCs, if he’s going to use the built in SUT in the Icon phono, which seems like a very nice unit, now that I’ve read more about it. Thus a Denon DL103 or any of several Ben... | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge "stylus kept skipping across the LP..." This suggests the tonearm is hanging up on something external, like the cueing device (if you have altered VTA in connection with changing cartridges, there is a chance the tonearm is fouling the lift on th... | |
| Need some help picking my first MC Cartridge Just keep in mind that the Nagaoka MP series of cartridges are Moving Iron types, not MM. While you are at the task of selecting a new MC type, maybe consider also upgrading from MP300 to MP500. | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge It's just that I have never found alignment to make such a quantitative difference in apparent frequency response. But this is very subjective, I suspect. | |
| New Technics SL-1200GR2 It would behoove some of you to do some research on Technics history. They’ve made some state of the art TT s since the 1970s, like the SP10, the SP10 mk2 and 2A, and the TOTL SP10mk3 (only lately superseded by the SP10R), along with the venerable... | |
| What Cartridge Manufacturers Will Retip Their Moving Coil Cartridges For A Fee? Rdk, yes, but, as previously mentioned, SS make MI cartridges. The operating principle is different from that of MCs, making rebuild a much simpler exercise. That’s a real virtue but not what the OP asked. | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge Most MC cartridges exhibit electro-mechanical resonance at very high frequencies, well above the range of human hearing, depending upon load and etc. But many do exhibit a slight 1-2db rise in FR at the very top of the audio spectrum. Anyway, it... | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge Any of the classic MM cartridges will be high compliance. I have a Grace Ruby with an SS OCL stylus on the correct sapphire cantilever. It's a marvelous cartridge. But I am not aware that the required degree of alignment accuracy for a happy ou... | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge Kavemaher, have you been to an ENT specialist or an audiologist? Could it be that you have tinnitus? | |
| what kind of grease do I use for my SOTA Sapphire bearing? No problem. It did seem to me that I used to talk to Donna in CA, when once I owned a Star Sapphire III. | |
| Best Full-Function Preamplifier I seriously disagree with those who suggest one is best off with separate phono and linestages. (And by the way, the term "preamplifier" historically assumed a linestage and phono stage on one chassis.) Here are the advantages of an all in one u... |