lewm
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| Hydra Cyclops - Any benefit for my Power-amp? Translate your acronyms, please. | |
| Synergy Ummm… that was sincerely meant as a compliment to Pindac, Mijo, assuming you’re referring to my most recent post. | |
| Synergy Pindac, the number and breadth of the experiments you find time and assistance to perform in search of your personal vinyl Nirvana do astonish me. | |
| Synergy Strictly speaking “synergy “ describes the condition where two factors are more than additive. Where 1+1 >2. Here I think the Virtuoso is just better. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. | |
| SUT experience I love that Raul could not resist taking a poke at my Viv Float tonearm. I’m verklempt. | |
| What happens when the stylus tip wears out on a $12,000 cartridge? Chayro, I agree with your approach. If you love the cartridge it’s best to stay as close to original as possible when retipping. J Carr of Lyra wrote here that it may not be a good idea to change the cantilever material dramatically from original,... | |
| how to use LDA quartz regenerator??? help Elvis has left the building it seems. | |
| What happens when the stylus tip wears out on a $12,000 cartridge? Truth is none of us “knows” for sure when a stylus is worn enough to need replacement, assuming a gradual decline and not a catastrophic failure as occurs when the stylus comes unglued from the cantilever, unless one owns a suitable microscope and... | |
| SUT experience If you’re really going to purchase a new phono stage, then do consider the PS Audio Stellar, as Raul suggested. But if your proclivities are toward a “vintage” sound, then you may also want to consider a modern tube based full function preamplifie... | |
| SUT experience Raul, I read the Stellar review. It seems to be superb. I’d recommend it to anyone interested in a new phono stage. The OP does not seem to be interested in a new phono stage. That was my point. It doesn’t help to respond to a question regarding i... | |
| Seeking Legit Cartridge Expert? A unipivot bearing is physically quite different from a gimbal bearing. That’s plain to see. Whether one can hear a difference between two otherwise identical tonearms that is purely due to the type of bearing is up to the listener. I’m surprised ... | |
| SUT experience A “head amp” or “pre-preamp” is simply a linear active gain stage to boost the cartridge output so the ensemble can then drive an MM stage. If you start with a high gain MC phono stage, there’s no role for a head amp. And a head amp, like a SUT, r... | |
| how to use LDA quartz regenerator??? help Are there no adjustments that affect voltage or current output from the LDA? If so, have you fiddled with them? Jason, nearly all TT motor controllers are in essence AC power regenerators. They work by affecting voltage and current out put to the... | |
| SUT experience Gilda as Roseann Roseannadanna. Raul, I don’t know if the Project phono is better than the Mac phono built into the OP’s C47, but in any case he’s using the Project for phono gain and RIAA, not the Mac. And I don’t see the point in raining on his... | |
| SUT experience Sorry, I am not steeped in knowledge of the SPU series and so did not realize what you were talking about. With the Synergy (0.5 mV), you definitely do not need the 60db gain setting. Even 50db is slight overkill with a 1:10 SUT. For example, with... |