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| Phonostage comparisons Grip tube, that’s a level of anal thinking that I have not previously encountered. Ortofon and Yamamoto make wood headshells that won’t warp enough to alter VTA by a measurable amount in any of our children’s lifetimes. I’m guessing you’re also av... | |
| Relative Importance of Analog Components Doggie, Good word, “prolix”. Your brain must be larger than the “pea size” you claim for it. | |
| Anti-skate adjustment off Thorens TD 146 with Schopper wand If you readjusted VTA by lowering the pivot to accommodate the cartridge, that’s probably what caused the problem. Happens to the best of us. | |
| Best turntable under $4000 Can you imagine if DJs used Linn? | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? Your system may differ from that of the BMC seller in terms of downstream gain factors, but I agree you’ll most likely be ok at the 0db setting, as noted above. If not then it’s easy to switch to the 7db setting. | |
| New to vinyl question The other problem with Amazon is they kill local small businesses, like record stores. | |
| Ortofon quintet vs. cadenza series Really, you’d have to decide for yourself, but that won’t deter anyone from offering an opinion. It is quite often the case that $$$ and SQ are not proportional. | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? Mijostyn, how do you know he’ll need to set the gain to “high”? And what is high on the BMC? 0, 7, and 14db are offered. With my ZYX UNIverse, which puts out 0.24mV and has a 4 ohm internal resistance, the 0db setting is robust. That’s with my lin... | |
| New to vinyl question To the OP. One more thing to check. Many turntables, especially ones with a springy suspension, have built in screws, usually hidden from view, that are tightened down for shipping. If your TT has such screws make sure they are not impeding the su... | |
| Anti-skate adjustment off Thorens TD 146 with Schopper wand Not that AS failed, necessarily. Rather that something is impeding the horizontal travel of the arm toward the spindle. Usual suspects are tonearm wires fouling the pivot, cuing device set too high so it fouls the arm wand, and then maybe the AS. ... | |
| Hey, I'm looking for the highest quality recordings from the following Artists: I meant “late 40s and early 50s”. Sorry. Sam Records are special. Flat as pancakes and on very low noise vinyl. Makes you truly wonder why you’d need stereo. | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear Thanks for your candor and responding, Mike. | |
| Hey, I'm looking for the highest quality recordings from the following Artists: There are some excellent noiseless LP reissues available from Sams Records, a French label, in the original mono. I have 3 with Chet Baker. Many other artists of the late 50s and early 50s are also available. Very highly recommended for any Baker-... | |
| Best turntable under $4000 Let me get this straight, grisly, you can’t bring yourself to use a Technics TT because DJs use or once used their bottom of the line SL1200, never mind that the 1200G series are better in every way and not to mention that probably hundreds of tho... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? From my reading bits written by audio journalists who usually have only a tenuous grasp of the technology, it seems the MCCI and Leno are a bit different from one another in circuitry. As a user of the MCCI, I simplified things by turning off the ... |