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| One turntable with two arms, or two turntables with one each - which would you prefer? I have 3 turntables mounted in slate plinths, using Pennsylvania black slate. (I assume not all slate from all sources is created equal.) The quarry in PA that sold me the slabs also was able to hone both sides of each slab perfectly flat and cha... | |
| Headshell wires with the good clips Yamamoto, Oyaide, and other especially Japanese companies make and sell headshell wires, a set of four and already color-coded. Check eBay, and the photos there usually are good enough to discern those split clips, when present. It's a cheap thri... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Actually, if you look at Mijostyn's syntax, he is not wrong: " In order to fool the human ear you only need a 0.3 dB difference in volume. " Literally, this could be construed to mean that, because the human ear canNOT distinguish an SPL differe... | |
| Solid State Phono Stages In my last paragraph above, replace “amplifier “ with “preamplifier”. | |
| Solid State Phono Stages Capacitance alone doesn’t tell you much. Depends also on the B+ voltage developed in the supply. Tube devices develop high voltages, e.g., 250V and higher and require less filter capacitor. SS devices usually operate at or below 100V, but 100V wou... | |
| Solid State Phono Stages Kucharsk, I have no opinion as to your ARC vs the Boulder phono, but if you truly gave it only a 5 minute listen, you never really heard it in your system. As Pindac notes , solid state gear needs to warm up (literally) to sound its best. In my ex... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? I agree with Intact as regards the perceived benefit of increasing SPL when the SQ is very high. If SQ is perceived as poor, increasing SPL makes mediocre SQ less tolerable, in my experience. | |
| Rolling Mullard 6DJ8 into GE 5670 Application Buell, from your post I gather you may have either substituted for a 12AU7 or rolled 12AU7s. Which is it? | |
| Rolling Mullard 6DJ8 into GE 5670 Application The issue for me is not how either tube sounds, but whether or not the two tubes are comparable in terms of their transconductance, mu, and plate resistance, such that you could plug one into a circuit designed for the other and still get the most... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? As for me, I have no objection to any kind of cartridge, no matter how derived or how modified. My only point was there is little to be learned at a distance from anonymous reports on how cartridges, especially modified ones, sound. By the way, t... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? For an MM phono stage, such as the one Mike uses, there is no option besides using an outboard SUT or other active gain device ahead of the stage, with a LOMC cartridge. Thus the sensitivity of the EMIA stage to RFI cannot fairly be judged in thi... | |
| Rolling Mullard 6DJ8 into GE 5670 Application Depends upon what the tube is doing in the DAC. If it is supplying gain, then yes you'll hear "a difference". What sort of difference is impossible to say without knowing the circuit and even then it would be a guess. If the tube is just acting ... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Once you start creating Frankenstein cartridges, by changing or modifying cantilevers, styli, coils, suspension, bodies, etc, then opinions regarding the net SQ are even more useless than otherwise, not to say that comparing OEM cartridges without... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? I read the thread on WBF via the URL provided by Mike. He started the thread in mid-2020, and I read it up to about mid-2021, but posts continue to the present. As of where I left off, Mike owned two of these expensive LFD cables. One is a phon... | |
| One turntable with two arms, or two turntables with one each - which would you prefer? Dogberry, what phono stage provides 5 pairs of phono inputs? |