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| Turntable suggestions for a newbie NewerVPI tonearms are not unipivot. | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL If you're looking for very low capacitance cables, then I suggest considering Anti-Cables. They have devised an ingenious method for minimizing capacitance by winding the ground wire in a spiral around the signal carrying wires. Thus the ground ... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL Mijostyn, Since this is your thread, I hope it’s OK to go off-topic to ask why and wherefore you burnt out audio transformers on your Sound Labs, unless you are referring to the experiment "we" did with Plitron toroidals to replace the OEM treble ... | |
| Does anyone have experience matching an Icon PS1 MKII with a Soundsmith Zephyr MIMC Star? Dover, I guess you haven’t read the thread. | |
| Does anyone have experience matching an Icon PS1 MKII with a Soundsmith Zephyr MIMC Star? Dover, Apparently the Icon PS1 has a bulit in SUT about which there is much confusion, as you know. We don’t know how they achieve a 100 ohm input R with the built-in SUT, which is said by them to be 1:10. One way to achieve a 100R input impedance... | |
| Does anyone have experience matching an Icon PS1 MKII with a Soundsmith Zephyr MIMC Star? Any unadulterated SUT with a turns ratio of 1:10 (i.e., a voltage gain of 10X) will show the cartridge a 470 ohm load if connected to a standard MM phono stage with an input resistance of 47K ohms, which is the industry standard and has been for p... | |
| Audio Research Reference Phono 3 versus Nagra Classic Phono I would guess that if you connect a SUT to the MM inputs of an FET/tube hybrid phono stage you are bypassing the JFET gain stage, and in any case, the gain device makes no difference to the SUT or the cartridge, so long as the input resistance is ... | |
| Does anyone have experience matching an Icon PS1 MKII with a Soundsmith Zephyr MIMC Star? You would not achieve a 100R load by putting a 100R resistor across the secondary. God forbid! That would result in the cartridge seeing a 1 ohm load across a 1:10 SUT. But if they inserted a 10K ohm resistor, THAT would result in a net 100 ohm lo... | |
| Turntable suggestions for a newbie Japan, where Technics products are nominally manufactured by a large conglomerate is hardly a 3rd world country. (I say "nominally", because some of their lower end models are apparently now made in Malaysia.) Nor is the UK a 3rd world country, t... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? That video wherein J Carr talks about many aspects of cartridge use and design reveals also that Benz helped Lyra obtain cantilevers, in addition to the brands named above. | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL I am not sure you can measure input capacitance in such a simple manner, because the input capacitance is only present when current is flowing. That information you probably need to get from the manufacturer. I am impressed if your meter can meas... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL Mijo, don’t forget to add in the input capacitance of your phono stage. In proportion to their gain factor all phono stages present a capacitance, both tube and solid state types, especially those with op amp input stages. | |
| Does anyone have experience matching an Icon PS1 MKII with a Soundsmith Zephyr MIMC Star? I think you mean 470 ohms, not 470,000 ohms. But you would not want to load your Sussuro at only 100 ohms. | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL Also, the idea of loading at 100K ohms vs 47K ohms should not be considered in isolation from the load capacitance, which is what I was getting at when I mentioned that 47K ohms with ~200pF and 100K ohms with ~100pF give about the same RC constant... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL If you have a good multimeter, just set it on capacitance and then place one lead on the hot and one on the ground on the connector, OR if balanced IC, then place one lead on the plus phase output (pin2) and the other lead on the negative phase ou... |