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| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL I made no recommendation at all, particularly with respect to loading the Shure. I’ve only related my own experience with loading MM (particularly the Grace Ruby) and high output MI cartridges other than the Shure, in much more recent years. A rea... | |
| Does anyone have experience matching an Icon PS1 MKII with a Soundsmith Zephyr MIMC Star? I have to suspect Icon installs a resistor across the secondary of the SUT, thereby reducing the load seen by the cartridge to 100 ohms, instead of the expected 470 ohms. Either that or the base load resistor at the MC inputs is 10K ohms instead o... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL It occurred to me that Grace recommended 400pF capacitance for the Ruby. 400pF with 47K ohms gives the same RC constant as 200pF (where I’m usually at, approximately) with 100K ohms. And yet it sounds different. | |
| Turntable Hum And Channel Drop Yes, alligator clips would be fine just to test the hypothesis. | |
| Tonearm Alignment Conundrum In every case and with several tonearms and many different headshells, when I’ve set the arm wand level (parallel to the platter surface), the top of the headshell is also level. So my guess is that your headshell is not mating properly to the arm... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL I think I got the idea from you in the first place. Then I tried 100K where before I used 47K. This may have been with the Grace Ruby, but I am not sure. Anyway, 100K was obviously superior to my ears in my system. | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL I'm with Raul. I usually load both MMs and high output MIs at 100K ohms. I keep capacitance to a minimum (about 100pF or certainly no more than 200pF) in both cases. However, I know that some do prefer a resistive load lower than the standard 47... | |
| Turntable Hum And Channel Drop Star Sapphire has motor under the platter, I think. If so, problem could be EMI from the motor. Some cartridges are more sensitive than others, but I don’t know why the problem evolved from nothing at first. Try shielding the motor with even a pie... | |
| Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Turntable working on and off Either motor is dying (losing power) or like you say there’s friction somewhere that the motor only intermittently overcomes. But if records sound normal in terms of tempo, then I would either doubt friction hypothesis or look for an intermittent ... | |
| Anyone notice different amounts of surface noise with different arms? I had to he same thought as Raul, after reading that you hear no difference between analog and digital RIAA filtering, because you’re signal is in the digital domain AFTER RIAA correction. That added processing might obliterate differences that wo... | |
| Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Turntable working on and off For example, if the motor is running but platter is stationary, you might think there was a problem with the “belt”. Was that the case? If motor doesn’t run, then there’s no reason to suspect that the root cause of the platter not moving has to do... | |
| Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Turntable working on and off What made you think there was a problem with the “band” in the first place? | |
| critique my setup -- weak link? best way to improve? I am sorry, the audio “source” is analogous to the OL of a pro football team? | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL ADC XLM and its siblings were very serious competitors with Shure in the mid 60s. I far preferred the XLM. | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL What Russ said. At the risk of diverting the subject, I’d add ADC, Grace, and B&O, certain models of each brand. I owned a V15 Type III and quickly moved on from it. |