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| Ground voltage!! My guess is you've measured the wrong thing. A modern wall outlet has 3 receptacles. The two slotted ones are where the line AC voltage appears, across hot and neutral. (The bigger slot is "hot", I think.) The third, semicircular receptacle is ... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live “In another room “ stories are absolutely irrelevant. When the source is in another room with respect to the room inhabited by the listener, the ear and brain are deprived of several cues used to distinguish live from reproduced music. Phase and b... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live No need to say more. I’m sorry I opened up yet another can of audiophile worms. | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live henry53, In a small club listening to a vocalist backed up by a small jazz group or to a small jazz group alone, you certainly can hear a degree of "realism" not easily replicated in the home. In that sort of set-up, some of the instruments and a... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Ralph, thanks. Your corroborating my preliminary hypothesis will save time. Getting the very heavy chassis safely down to my basement workshop is my next problem. I’m hoping that the output tube in question was not damaged. Visual inspection shows... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live So that takes us down a different road of inquiry. A never ending contentious one. We can all agree that sometimes the live experience is not so great, because of room acoustics, ambient noise, noisy audience, bad amplification, etc but live instr... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live When you say “improve on live sound”, what does that mean? | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? I have one output tube located in the R front corner of on one monoblock that keeps failing in the red glow death mode. This has happened 3 times over the course of years. But of those 3 incidents, two have occurred in the last 6 months. Last time... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? I have used the Audio Technica ART7 (0.12mV output, 12 ohms internal R), the ZYX Universe (0.24mV output, 4 ohms internal R), and the Ortofon MC2000 (.05mV output, 2 ohms internal R) into the BMC MCCI Signature ULN (phew, long name!). The gain str... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live Very few if any audio systems can capture the dynamics and amplitude of live music in an intimate setting. That’s a worthy goal to pursue as you grow your system. Otherwise what’s the question? | |
| Benz Micro Glider Stylus protection A stylus guard on a cartridge built like the Glider (and there are many others like it) is more of a danger than a safety benefit. Installing and removing the stylus guard is perhaps the most dangerous act involved in using a cartridge. In 45 ye... | |
| TW Acustic Raven AC Owners with 3-4 arms Yes. | |
| Moving Iron Adventures Dover, your information is correct. I was incorrect, regarding DC motors. But the potential noise issue with DD TTs is there regardless, because all motors can radiate EMI and also reflect EMI back on the AC power source, which is why it’s best to... | |
| Field coil dava cartridge Mijo, I guess it is my fault for not having fully explained my reasoning. When you see those impressive flat lines on the B&K print-outs that used to be supplied in the box with new cartridges, as far as I know they have to have been created ... | |
| Cartridge burn-in Thanks to the suspension in all its parts and complexity the stylus/cantilever ought to act like a tuning fork only when excited at its resonant frequency, which response ought to be rapidly damped. Else we’re not going to have music. |