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| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear Richard Krebs designed and probably built at least the first prototypes of K3. Richard is an honorable gentleman and a qualified engineer. The K3 evidently went where Richard’s brain took it. None of us know what we don’t know about it, so perhaps... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? It’s nonsense to think of changing the plugs from XLR to RCA as a “modification “. All you’re doing is grounding one side of the cartridge coils to effect a single-ended output. Pin2 of the XLR goes to the “hot” central pin of the RCA and pin3 goe... | |
| Phonostage comparisons Wouldn’t the top line Whest phono stages be far more costly than even the most expensive of the units he reviewed? And he’s stated he’d rather not stretch to buy that phono stage due to its relatively high cost, although it seems to be his favorite. | |
| Hey, I'm looking for the highest quality recordings from the following Artists: Chet And in my opinion, as a singer, he’s a great trumpet player. | |
| Hey, I'm looking for the highest quality recordings from the following Artists: Eva Cassidy most certainly did cut at least one LP. I own a copy but can’t tell you the title because I’m away on vacation. As for Chet Baker, look for him on any West Coast jazz album, e.g., Riverside, or with Mulligan, Konitz, Pepper, etc. I per... | |
| Question regarding older phono preamp No denying what Mijo says, but older solid state gear also have issues, such as transistors or especially ICs and op amps that are simply no longer available. Furthermore, a tube circuit can usually be traced out in the absence of a schematic. Whe... | |
| Spectral DMA 200 Is it possible to send it to Spectral? I’m not sure they are still a functional company. | |
| Question regarding older phono preamp Electrolytic capacitors fail over time. No matter what. But lack of use is worst case. if your unit was in storage for more than 10 years, you might have someone check the power supply caps. Film capacitors do last essentially forever, unless they... | |
| Artesania rack Tubes are microphonic. Depending on tube type and gain you may or may not ameliorate the problem by changing tubes until you find some less microphonic samples. Take a pencil with an eraser at one end, and gently tap each tube in your phono stage ... | |
| Spectral DMA 200 I searched a bit and didn’t find anything relevant to a schematic available on line. | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 Drbond, I’d have to hear it myself to get a feel for what you’re describing. To begin with, for me bloom and the sense of ambiance are two different sensations. It makes sense to me that studio recordings where there is no audience and the recordi... | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 Not meaning to be combative, but referring to the capacity of a fine tube phono stage to “bloom” or to make the listener feel the musicians are in the room as “distortion “ seems a bit unfair, not to say unmeasured and therefore maybe not distort... | |
| Refurbish Fidelity Research Tonearms Found Richard Mak, FWIW. | |
| Refurbish Fidelity Research Tonearms Karl, Thanks for the update. Where is Richard Mak located? | |
| Why aren't all modern vinyl releases 45s? My guess is the people who sell records have figured out that there is not a big enough market for 45 rpm LPs, and that may be because the majority of us end users do not want to get up to flip LPs even more often than usual and have found that 45... |