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| 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. | |
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity Isn't the LPS and some others in that series still well regarded by many? And HOMC fans still mention the Glider in whatever iteration (though I owned two and did not much like either). Maybe Benz is not sliding. | |
| Looking for Turntable Reccomendations If you want to start a museum or a collection of audio oddities, then and only then consider the Transcriptors turntable recommended by someone here. Yes, it's a treat to look at and watch in action, but no it is not a good turntable by modern sta... | |
| What Cartridge Manufacturers Will Retip Their Moving Coil Cartridges For A Fee? It's a matter of semantics. Which is to say that nearly all MC cartridge makers will supply you with a "new" cartridge for a fee that is darn near to the OEM cost of the cartridge. In some cases, the new cartridge may be your original one that ha... | |
| Compliance of a First Generation Kiseki Blackheart What is the sound of "tickling"? Is it like "giggling"? | |
| Looking for Turntable Reccomendations PTP Audio Solid 12 is an off the shelf heavy plinth Lenco conceived and built by Peter Reinders, one of us crazies, for a sane person to buy and enjoy. | |
| A weighty conundrum It’s impossible to say much about differences between your two digital scales, except that the one with the range from 0.1 to 5.0 g is the one to use. For best accuracy, you want the VTF you seek (or any measurement of weight) to be within a narro... | |
| Let's Say A Guy Wanted To Chose Between A Koetsu Jade and You’re correct. My error in saying the Jade was the first with platinum magnets. But was the Jade offered both ways, with vs without platinum? | |
| Let's Say A Guy Wanted To Chose Between A Koetsu Jade and On a more serious note, I thought the platinum option was first offered with the Jade, such that there were or are two versions of the Jade, with vs without the platinum magnets. Since Neon asked about the Jade without noting anything specific abo... | |
| Let's Say A Guy Wanted To Chose Between A Koetsu Jade and I'll keep in mind that platinum magnets make for a creamy sound. | |
| Let's Say A Guy Wanted To Chose Between A Koetsu Jade and Difference between platinum and non-platinum is probably the most important factor. There is a diversity of opinions on that. | |
| Direct Drive TT...vintage era....sleepers.... The JVC QL7 may indeed be “demonstrably better” than the equivalent Technics or Denon, but, if they’re likened to the QL7, they’d be in the category of mediocre, compared to the best of the vintage Japanese DD TTs. The QL7 itself is far from the b... |