lewm
Responses from lewm
| Need advice for a replacement phono cartridge Some of the better Benz cartridges have a fairly high internal resistance and are not well suited to a current driven phono, eg, the LPS (38 ohms). On the other hand the Ebony L would work (5 ohms). Check specs and try to stay below 10 ohms intern... | |
| Revox Straight Line Turntables The HK and the Revox were both derivatives of the Rabco idea. The HK in particular was a near copy of the all in one Rabco TT (SL8?), using that rubber wheel to move the pivot. Even when they worked, it wasn’t a good idea to begin with. | |
| Reed 1H vs Tri-Planar VII U2 tonearms.... Both are excellent tonearms. In a sense you could say that the Reed is a copy of the triplanar, with many added tweaks that are not present on a Triplanar. That’s a general statement about the Reed product line. It may not include the 1H, because ... | |
| Update on my TT causing distortion at higher volume CDPs nearly always require much more attenuation than phono, because their standard signal voltage output is nearly always at least 1V and more often 2V. And it’s the same regardless of the program material. Whereas phono voltage output is rarely ... | |
| Update on my TT causing distortion at higher volume What made me think you just might be running your MM into the MC inputs of your phono is your mentioning that the volume jumped way up when you first auditioned the MM cartridge, after having listened to your MC. That suggested to me you might ha... | |
| Update on my TT causing distortion at higher volume First, by owning and listening to one MC cartridge and one MM cartridge, you will not learn "the difference" between MM and MC. You will only learn the difference between the two particular cartridges. Second, according to the internet, the E-glo... | |
| Update on my TT causing distortion at higher volume Since the SLP05 is a linestage, I have to wonder what you’re using for a phono stage. Could it be that you’re driving a high gain MC phono stage with an MM cartridge (the Ortofon Red)? This would inevitably overload such a phono stage and cause th... | |
| MM, MC, or MI cartridge Big Greg (and rv). Who was negative? The responses are of two types.(1) suggestions for altering the setup parameters, and (2) suggestions to allow time for further break-in, which makes a significant difference in my experience, particularly for ... | |
| MM, MC, or MI cartridge Rvpiano, do you realize that over a less than 3 day period from first listen you were first positive and then fairly negative about the Hana? Give it more time. Based on the date and time stamps on your posts, you claim to have listened for 20 hou... | |
| MoFi controversy I could not care less about this brouhaha, as I have already said, but tomcy quoted the following above, from the MoFi website. "First and foremost, we only utilize first generation original master recordings as source material for our releases." ... | |
| MoFi controversy There are any number of great sounding originals and reissues of “Sunday at the VV”, probably because the recording process must have been so well done and the results so superb. | |
| MoFi controversy Optimize. You seem to be stuck arguing from your own set of facts. But the omitted fact is that RBCDs suck compared to a high quality LP played on a "very good" system, and any critical listener can hear that. I’d say RBCD is only a cut above MP3.... | |
| 3k Phono preamp upgrade options (JC3+, XP-17, etc) My apologies to JC. The intention of my post was not to criticize him or even any single thing he designed, but simply to point out that it is wise to choose based on your own listening tests and experience, rather than based on the fame of the d... | |
| MoFi controversy Optimize, you cannot possibly still be arguing that even RBCD, played on a home CDP, is superior to high quality vinyl reproduction. Can you? | |
| MoFi controversy My older, 80s and 90s, MoFi’s sure do not require treble attenuation. They’re excellent with no EQ, and though my ears are now ancient, they were not so old back when I first heard the LPs for the first time. But I have no rock and roll from that ... |