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| New Audio Technica On VA, the price was quoted as ~$2500. I can't see the ad you quoted, in English, only shows up in Japanese, but the price is 330,000yen, which today converts to $2718US. It doesn't have its coils on the stylus end of the cantilever, so the relat... | |
| Phono 1:1 Input Transformers - info sought... You’re correct about cartridges but most have cartridges wired single ended at the phono stage. I puzzled over this myself. In certain circuits there can be DC offset at the input stage. Resulting DC current across the coils of an LOMC cartridge c... | |
| Please Help T3F problems I certainly agree with Dover that you are better off with the ET tonearm, but that involves a larger cash expenditure. On the other hand, you might justify it by thinking that the T3F will likely be problematic in the long term, even if you fix it... | |
| Phono 1:1 Input Transformers - info sought... The 1:1 input transformers might also be used to invert phase at the input of the phono stage. (I notice that the ad copy mentions phase inversion as a feature.) Actually, by using the transformer input, you can do both: convert an SE input to bal... | |
| Tone arm plug in RCA cable? SAEC, the company known for tonearms, has been out of the business during most of the most modern era of obsessive copper wire-naming and the wild claims associated with that practice. | |
| Phono 1:1 Input Transformers - info sought... Most likely they are using input transformers to create a balanced input from what is internally a single ended circuit. | |
| Who Is An Expert On Acutex Cartridges? Had I seen that ebay ad, and I did do a search on "Acutex" but it strangely did not come up, I would have purchased that unit rather than sending my damaged one to SS, as I just did today. I had a worn out LPM315. So I stuck that assembly on the ... | |
| Tone arm plug in RCA cable? Holm-zie baby, Your options have been stated over and over again. They range from (1) changing the wire between the DIN plug and the box, which was your original question to (2) changing the wires and then experimenting with different ICs to find... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Pani, Which version of "Nantais Lenco" do you own? I used to own one, too, and I used to follow Jean's meanderings on various websites. He was or is constantly upgrading his ideas on how to improve the base table, so his work has a temporal qual... | |
| Who Is An Expert On Acutex Cartridges? Hi Timeltel, Nice to hear from you. In all prior experience with the LPM320STRIII, I had it mounted in its headshell adaptor/coil housing, rather than in the Saturn V, but in a lightweight headshell, probably carbon fiber type. In a fit of stupi... | |
| Who Is An Expert On Acutex Cartridges? I dredged up this thread, because I am once again listening to an LPM320STRIII, this time in Acutex's optional "Saturn V" headshell, which really is the lightest possible headshell, running it in my Lenco in a DV505 tonearm. I had never tried the... | |
| Solid State Phono Stages Seems like you will have to buy about a half dozen phono stages in order to appease the crowd, and then listen to them in your system in order to make your own decision. I am being only half facetious. Sometimes you really do have to buy several d... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? We agree, Raul. That is what I was trying to say. There is basically "nothing new under the sun" when it comes to turntables, although our ideas about what constitutes optimal design and construction have evolved or become more sophisticated over... | |
| Tone arm plug in RCA cable? Pindac, You wrote, "If the OP wants to replace the Cable used for the PIB - 1, the method when used will add one more set of connections and disruption in the signal path." I beg to differ. He is already using the box, so changing the wires betw... | |
| Tone arm plug in RCA cable? Yes, but what I and others are saying is he is better off getting rid of the box entirely. Just go DIN at the arm base to RCA at the phono stage, which can very easily be achieved and would cost no more than buying RCA to RCA conventional interco... |