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| Solid state or Tubes preamp phono stage. The best 12AU7 is no 12AU7. Replace them with 12FQ7/6FQ7 (depending upon the filament voltage supplied to the socket) or with 6CG7 (which requires a minor re-wiring of the socket for the filament supply only and requires a 6.3V filament supply). ... | |
| MM or HO MC Cartridge Choice-Input Please I don't know who the mystery rich guy is in Pindac's post, but he is entitled to his opinion of HOMC cartridges. I disagree. One caveat: some manufacturer's make the same cartridge in very low output and slightly low output versions. For exampl... | |
| Solid state or Tubes preamp phono stage. The point remains; each of us has to spend the time listening to a variety of components in order to figure out for onesself what constitutes audio Nirvana. A bunch of opinions from strangers might provide an idea where to start, at best. Sometim... | |
| Solid state or Tubes preamp phono stage. Bliss, I wasn’t sure of your meaning. Your statement could have been taken either as a characteristic of the Trumpet or as a blanket characteristic of tube phono stages. Thank you for the clarification. | |
| Solid state or Tubes preamp phono stage. I take issue with Bliss’s comments on tube phono stages in general, unless he’s referring specifically to the Trumpet, which I’ve never heard. Modern tube phono stages in general are not rolled off and lacking in resolution at all. Tubes inherentl... | |
| Empire EDR9 cart into Lehmann Audio Decade phono preamp, sounds awful I was gonna apologize for my sarcasm, than along comes Wolfie. I'd be interested to hear a very fine MM cartridge try to drive a 100 ohm load. That must be something. | |
| Need advice for a replacement phono cartridge I have an Urushi. It’s excellent. A little more bass and treble than a Rosewood. Less “warmth”, more detailed. I just had it retipped by Expert Stylus with a Paratrace, still with OEM boron cantilever. I think it’s better than ever but my system i... | |
| Empire EDR9 cart into Lehmann Audio Decade phono preamp, sounds awful Do you have an owner or user manual? If not, you can probably get one from Lehmann or any of several other sources on line. Then read it. (Sorry for the sarcasm.) | |
| Empire EDR9 cart into Lehmann Audio Decade phono preamp, sounds awful What yogi boy said. For goodness sakes! Also set gain for MM not MC. | |
| ELAC Miracord 50H ll repair questions I don’t doubt that a flat spot on the idler wheel could cause these problems and more as well, but in most cases isn’t the idler wheel held away from the platter rim when power is off? Usually the wheel only engages during play. I don’t know wheth... | |
| ELAC Miracord 50H2 turntable questions Just killing time here after a big breakfast. Your two separate threads were one under the other so I couldn’t help noticing. | |
| ELAC Miracord 50H2 turntable questions Rocky, more than 1.5 years ago you started a thread on a Miracord with different problems. If you’re still referring to that unit, then you didn’t buy it last week. Or is this unit new to you? | |
| What's the 911 on re-tips? If spending money and time to buy and restore mediocre broken cartridges floats your boat, there is an instructional manual for you. | |
| MM, MC, or MI cartridge Nagaoka MP500 is MI??? I always thought of Nagaoka cartridges as MM types. I went to the Grado site to read about the Epoch3. It seems like a high premium to pay vs their slightly lesser products for cocobolo wood case, gold coils, a sapphire c... | |
| What's the 911 on re-tips? You won't be able to buy a "world class" (read "very expensive") cartridge for pennies on the dollar. You'll probably pay 60-70% of retail, unless the cartridge is very much a vintage model. In which case, the condition of the suspension is a co... |