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| How do I get the best soundstage? Imagine if clubs and concert halls and all the other assorted auditoria in which music is performed were subject to the electronic constraints that Mijostyn prefers to apply in his home system. Would it add to enjoyment of the music? Would we ev... | |
| How do I get the best soundstage? Hysteve, I have not digested all of the posts that came after my original one, wherein I asked whether you have ever been able to experience what you feel is "excellent" sound staging with the Volti spkrs. My unspoken point was that a friend of mi... | |
| How do I get the best soundstage? In your past experience have you once been satisfied with the soundstage afforded by the Volti spkrs? | |
| Turntable Placement Between Speakers with Short Interconnect? If you are planning to introduce an outboard standalone phono stage, as your last post suggests, then it too should be a balanced circuit internally, if you want to take advantage of a balanced connection to your amplifiers. Using XLR-terminated ... | |
| Life of KT 150 Tubes Output tubes are usually wired in parallel, not in series. Thus it is quite possible for one to fail while the others roll along. I have no idea why my previous post was deleted, but it was. Perhaps an overzealous censor. | |
| Who Is An Expert On Acutex Cartridges? Shootout, yes. I did say that I thought or hoped the MMC20 bass would flesh out over time. The Grace Ruby with SS OCL would surprise any $10,000+ cartridge owner with an open mind; actually any of these we’ve been discussing would do so. But the ... | |
| Life of KT 150 Tubes The OP says that one tube in each amplifier “popped”. That is not the exit mode of tubes that wear out. Normally a tube that is dying due to long use will just begin to sound bad and eventually become impossible to bias properly until the user fin... | |
| Life of KT 150 Tubes A schematic is nice to have, but not really necessary for trouble-shooting this particular problem. Basically, if there is nothing amiss with ancillary components (capacitors, resistors, tube sockets, wiring, solder joints), then you have to belie... | |
| Who Is An Expert On Acutex Cartridges? LPM were the later ones with the long narrow snout-like appearance. There was an earlier or overlapping series simply referred to as "M". So there was an M320, an M315, etc. They look more conventional and can mount directly into a headshell wi... | |
| Turntable Placement Between Speakers with Short Interconnect? If you take the questionable advice of Elliot, to the effect that worrying about IC length is BS, at least be sure to purchase cables with the lowest capacitance possible. Capacitance, not "quality", should be the determining factor. I might sug... | |
| Life of KT 150 Tubes You do not need an "authorized" technician to sort out this problem. You need someone who is knowledgeable and has the balls to just do it. | |
| Question about Cartridge Loading No. Loading is inversely related to the R value. The higher the R, the lower is the load on the cartridge. For an MC cartridge, the rule of thumb is to choose a load resistor value that is 10 times the internal resistance of your cartridge. If you... | |
| Life of KT 150 Tubes The best thing to do is not to wonder why both amplifiers failed at the same time. The fact is that both amplifiers need repair, and the best approach to that is to fix each amplifier one at a time. In the process of doing so, it may become obvi... | |
| Artemis Labs SA-1 Turntable anyone? It always looked to be well designed to me, but I never saw or heard it in person. | |
| Turntable Placement Between Speakers with Short Interconnect? I can agree that there is a tradeoff between having the table "too close" to speakers and long ICs, but the quality of the phono ICs makes very little difference if they are 8 feet long, as proposed. Or to put it a better way, quality per se is n... |