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| what kind of grease do I use for my SOTA Sapphire bearing? SOTA the company is just a phone call away, in CA. | |
| MM Phono Stages With Greater Than 40 dB of Gain? Mulveling, it’s a simple matter to change the load resistance of an MM phono stage. I use 100K ohms in all of mine. Anything higher in value than 100K must be for the case where you want to use a SUT with a high turns ratio (>1:10) and the cart... | |
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity That ratio of voltage output to coil impedance is better known as “current”, in Amperes. | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Is methanol doing anything useful to the task? Perhaps EU regulations permit that much methanol in the preparation, but if I were making up a replica of the Clearaudio cleaner, I’d delete the methanol, or wear laboratory gloves whenever handling it. | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum Sounds like a modern digitized Rabco with better everything. | |
| MM Phono Stages With Greater Than 40 dB of Gain? 80db gain would give you 500mV or 0.5V from the MC2000, marginally enough to drive most amplifiers. So you can include the gain added by any linestage to get to 80db+ total voltage gain. My 3160 Phonolinepreamp almost does it alone, because of th... | |
| MM Phono Stages With Greater Than 40 dB of Gain? In my direct experience, you want at least 80db of total voltage gain (phono + linestage) to get the most out of an MC2000. More is even better. | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum To Americans, the word “Panzer” is synonymous with “tank”, owing to WW2 history, regardless of the true meaning in German. My guess is that the word panzerholz may be copyrighted such that some other manufacturer of a similar product is driven to ... | |
| MM Phono Stages With Greater Than 40 dB of Gain? In addition, there are a slew of current drive phono stages that easily handle the MC2000 with no SUT. (Of course, you can’t use a SUT with current drive.) For only one example my BMC MCCI set at +11db gain. In further addition there is the Suther... | |
| MM Phono Stages With Greater Than 40 dB of Gain? If you have the bucks, do not ignore Raul’s mention of the new 3180. I own the 3160, and it is superb (and all solid state, in a tube guy’s system). As to the Manley phono stages, the gain stage is a hybrid cascode (transistor on the bottom/tube ... | |
| To condition or not ? On the SOTA, it IS a magnet but that is one half of the device called a Hall Sensor, used in many vintage DD turntables, like my Kenwood L07D, and by Phoenix Engineering which designed the speed control system used in the SOTA Eclipse. I agree tha... | |
| MM Phono Stages With Greater Than 40 dB of Gain? Manley Steelhead offers minimum 50db of gain on its single MM inputs, and that can be cranked up as high as 65db, not that you would need it. I too love the MC2000, and I use mine with a custom built outboard pre-preamp into the Manley MM inputs w... | |
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity What’s written here is hardly of statistical significance, even if your casual observation is accurate. For one thing, the topic of “what cartridge “ as posed here usually is to a price point of $1K or less. The top Benz cartridges ain’t cheap. | |
| To condition or not ? You’re correct; they contradict themselves in the space of one paragraph. I see no reason why any of the named devices could do damage. Some might affect sound quality up or down, but that’s about it. And nothing protects against a direct lightnin... | |
| What Cartridge Manufacturers Will Retip Their Moving Coil Cartridges For A Fee? SS do not make MC cartridges, so far as I know. MI cartridges are easier to retip. |