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| 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. | |
| Isolation transformer question I found just messing around that feeding the ESL bias supplies from the lowest power PS Audio regenerator does make a small improvement in sonics. Years ago I tried 6 different power cords on my then SL M1 speakers (before I bought the present PX8... | |
| Isolation transformer question There’s no attempt in this discussion to distinguish among isolation transformers vs isolation transformers plus regulation and/or additional filtering using caps and inductors vs just a box of HD caps and inductors that filter only vs AC regenera... | |
| Anyone notice different amounts of surface noise with different arms? Do you mean “the same cartridge in different tonearms”? Such differences are not subtle even assuming the unlikely case of perfect alignment. This experience causes me to believe there is no such thing as a tonearm that adds nothing to the sound. | |
| Deciphering Integrated Specs - Step Up Matching The only data that might help to answer your many questions are in the section headed by”voltage gain”, and there are a few different possible interpretations of those data. However, I’d start with your SUTset to 1:12, not 1:24. You can always cho... | |
| Fezz vs Raven You’re engendering fear that is totally unjustified. I’ve been using tube amps and preamps for 45 years. I’ve repaired and upgraded them. Built a tube amp from scratch. Have read several volumes of tech info on tubes. Yes if there’s a fault in the... | |
| Fezz vs Raven In that case, beware of a lightning strike as well, although that’s more likely than a tube amp actually catching fire. | |
| Fezz vs Raven If a tube glows red, it usually will fail very soon after and go dark, because dead. No fire. Tube glowing red is not any reason to avoid tube amplifiers. I don’t say it’s impossible (Pindac’s reference is to a guy who thought a tube LOOKED like i... | |
| Almost time to arm the Victor TT 101 Knoll, by the time I had my TT101 up and running, I had no energy for creating a new plinth, after having done that for Lenco, DP80, and SP10 mk3. | |
| Almost time to arm the Victor TT 101 As I wrote, what I did was to brace the OEM plinth with aluminum nearly covering the bottom with one inch thick pieces that I fixed to the plinth with heavy duty wood screws. This in addition to replacing the arm board. You can buy slabs of alu on... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? At this point in time, the 927 is like Captain Ahab’s white whale. The one you might find may not bear all the sonic virtues of the one you are seeking, and it might bankrupt you nevertheless (not quite as bad as what happened to Ahab, I admit). | |
| Cartridge for Michell Gyro SE and SME 309 Be aware that MI cartridges do not always mate well with a step up transformer, if you are using a step up transformer. | |
| Straight tonearms without offset angle Mijostyn brings up the LT and the 5G pretty much EVERY time the Viv is mentioned. I have no argument; those may be superior to the Viv, but that’s not the point. As to the skating force generated by the Viv: it’s always going to be proportional to... | |
| Straight tonearms without offset angle Jason, you say you wouldn’t use the Viv because it violates well established design principles, and that’s fine. But you go on to say you own two pivoted overhung tonearms with headshell offset, which in and of itself dramatically enhances skating... |