lewm
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| MM, MC, or MI cartridge Everyone is happy in the first 30 minutes of a new device in the audio chain, provided the new thing isn't broken. Wait a week or two. Not that I think you will ultimately be disappointed at all. | |
| Phono Stage Gain - how does it impact sound? Audphile, if there’s one thing I’ve been trying to get across to you it’s that based on the info you’ve supplied, your phono stage gain is adequate. | |
| Cartridges, Vinyl, Stylus, Turntable First, all LPs are potential "audiophile" LPs, depending upon the quality of the pressing and the past history of the particular sample, but one wants to take care of any LP worth playing. Second, no, of course an inexpensive cartridge will not h... | |
| Phono Stage Gain - how does it impact sound? Shouldn't sound like sh*t when you use the cartridge with 3mV output and the phono set for 2.6mV. But anyway, as for audphile, the results depend in part also upon the downstream equipment. I am surprised that the 2.6mV input does not work decen... | |
| Phono Stage Gain - how does it impact sound? Yes, I know about the Pass power rating. It's an excellent amplifier and one I would consider if I needed an amplifier. I am focusing on its power rating only because that seems the most likely place to look given the other info you provided. Al... | |
| Phono Stage Gain - how does it impact sound? Any decent phono stage, especially a solid state one like the Sutherland, is not going to be rolled off at bass frequencies, unless there is a defect in the RIAA network, which I doubt. So, put more hours on the cartridge, and if you are still dis... | |
| Chime in if you bought a second table that cost a fraction of your main table. Got 5 TTs in two systems. Love them all, but the cheapest is my Denon DP80. Only $600 when I bought mine. Sadly they’ve become more expensive since. Among new TTs, I’d go for the least expensive variant of the Technics 1200G series. IMO that will ... | |
| Phono Stage Gain - how does it impact sound? Maybe the 30W Pass amplifier is a little stressed driving 87db speakers. That’s where I’d look. You should be delivering more than adequate voltage to the amplifier. But again, I’d give the cartridge time to break in for best bass. | |
| Phono Stage Gain - how does it impact sound? First, give the suspension time to break in before you expect best bass response and definition. Second, your dataset related to gain is incomplete. What are the input sensitivity and gain of your Pass linestage? (Your phono stage gain can ampl... | |
| Long headshell required What calibration disc? For example, I think Mint protractors adhere to Baerwald. Or if its the OEM Technics protractor, it is probably Stevenson. | |
| MM, MC, or MI cartridge Bill, Thanks. That's it!!! So messages are in the Dashboard segment, I guess. I found it once and then could not find it again. I guess Agon has to make this difficult in order to protect their own interests. | |
| MM, MC, or MI cartridge Someone on this thread sent me a message about my Decca SC4E. Please send another message via the email route permitted by Audiogon. I cannot find where my internal messages are stored, even though I was there earlier today. To me, navigating t... | |
| Classic Ortofon Cartridges: The MC2000 MK II or the MC3000 MK II? This thread was initiated about a year ago, and so it is not an old thread by audiogon standards. You can easily find threads that are 20 years old here. Anyway, to be clear, which cartridge do you have? It sounds like you have an MC 3000. Is that... | |
| Chime in if you bought a second table that cost a fraction of your main table. I've always marveled at that Kuzma. It's bling-y, but the bling is for a purpose. And it's true industrial art besides. | |
| Michael Fremer leaves Analog Planet I am generally against criticizing audio components primarily because of their retail cost, but what could there possibly be about a pair of speaker wires that could justify a retail price of $30,000? I think MF has to use such equipment in order ... |