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| Solid State Phono Stages I’m just questioning the semantics. If a hook is a design element that leads to exceptional neutrality, then it ought not to be analogized to a guitar amplifier, which is deliberately designed not to be neutral. If I were designing a tube amp for ... | |
| My turntable sounds like the speed is too slow First get hold of an inexpensive strobe or use the cell phone app and verify that it’s running slow and how slow. To check for belt slip, make a mark on the platter and the belt, eg, using a magic marker, and see if the two marks stay aligned as ... | |
| MM or MI Cartridge? Forgot also to mention typical compliance numbers that might affect response time. MCs typically exhibit lowest compliance. The exceptional MCs that exhibit higher than average compliance are the ones I like best. | |
| MM or MI Cartridge? Moving coil cartridges do indeed have the lowest inductance of any of the three types, by far, but they also have the highest moving mass. Moving iron type cartridges have the lowest moving mass on average. MM types are somewhere in between. There... | |
| Solid State Phono Stages So a hook is a characteristic coloration that pleases the listener(?) Because electric guitars are deliberately distorted at the source. | |
| Solid State Phono Stages Pindac, Please forgive me for my ignorance, but in at least two posts on this thread you have referred to "hooks". What's a hook? | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Thanks, Antinn. | |
| Turntables: 2 Tonearms. What do you Have or Know About? Why that red leather Lenco with the Ferrari emblem up front has not been sold.... it's ugly. Talk about "Wife Acceptance Factor", that one has a low "Human Acceptance Factor". | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Just to be clear about my own position. I have no reason to criticize Wizzzard’s recommendations, and I do respect that in the field of analytical chemistry his knowledge is much greater than mine. However, before he laid down his wisdom here, I h... | |
| MM or MI Cartridge? Jason, kudos to your friend with the Marantz-Futterman-Quad system. That’s a vintage combination to rival many modern high end systems except it needs a subwoofer. Back in the early 70s, I owned a similar system save for using KLH9s, first one pai... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Dear Wizzz, Here is what you wrote on June 6 at 6:25 PM, at the end of your tirade: "All materials including resins and resin blends, whether natural synthetic, have many characteristic parameters. I have correctly restricted myself to include the... | |
| Qs about Grace F-9 U cartridge You name six different cartridges, none of which is "bad", and ask whether the Grace will stand up to them in SQ. I only know one person who may own all or most of the cartridges you already own, and that is Raul. So maybe Raul can offer his opi... | |
| Qs about Grace F-9 U cartridge So, you've answered your own question. If you're satisfied with the story that goes along with any used cartridge, then buy it. Worst case scenario, if you're not happy, is you can change to a sapphire cantilever + LC stylus per the services of ... | |
| Recommended cartridge under $2k for a Yamaha PX2 tangential turntable You’ve had Jason’s opinion. In my opinion, you don’t necessarily need a high gain phono stage unless you are fixated on a LOMC cartridge. There are some superb high output cartridges that will work fine with a good MM phono stage, although none of... | |
| Qs about Grace F-9 U cartridge Never heard of the U version but it may not have been exported from Japan. Price is not the only criterion for what constitutes a good deal. In a used cartridge, condition is 99% of the deal, in my book. Does the seller have the original container... |