lewm
Responses from lewm
| Am I a hopeless audio snob? Richopp, that’s the one I had, for a brief fling. The Vestigial tonearm was a hoot. But funnily back then I bought in the shortlived belief it was SOTA. | |
| Tube sound Comes, mainly, from? Pre or Power? This might be the world champion of reviving an old thread, since this one is 13 years old this year. I didn’t bother to reread the entire thing, but what most people think of as the tube sound in my mind has to do with the output transformer of t... | |
| Can you run the HANA SL MC at 100 ohms? 60-70db? With headphones, maybe I could hear the music at that SPL. From a speaker, that is barely above ambient noise. Anyway, carry on. You're fine. | |
| Do hi-end DACs offer true value or diminishing return... Raul, Was trying to be funny. Of course, the OP is free to post on the Digital Forum, as well. I wish he would have exercised that freedom, in fact. | |
| Do hi-end DACs offer true value or diminishing return... This is the Analog Forum. | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? I could say that I purchased about 2/3 or more of my LP collection new, but covering a span of time from the 1970s to the present. Furthermore I obtained about 1/3 of my collection from the estate of my dear friend whom I know purchased all of his... | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? What makes me smile is the idea of a $20K cartridge on a $100,000+ turntable in order to play even a mint vintage LP that one may have paid $5 or $10 for. Of course the buyers of those cartridges probably would not be caught dead with a used LP. T... | |
| Do hi-end DACs offer true value or diminishing return... This is analog world. | |
| Can you run the HANA SL MC at 100 ohms? No you cannot hurt anything with the “wrong” phono load resistance, and whoever wrote that bit of advice about never using 47K to load an MC cartridge is full of crap. It has been mentioned before on this thread, but in case you hadn’t read it, yo... | |
| Phono cables Does the hum change in intensity as the stylus traverses the LP surface? Is it loudest on the inner grooves? For phono cables, I suggest the high level AntiCables, made in Minnesota. You can custom order them any way you want. Superb sound. | |
| Rega planar 8 : Tracking force and Anti-skate settings You’d have to ask them. No one else recommends that much AS for a given VTF. Plus I don’t know how their AS device is calibrated. | |
| Rega planar 8 : Tracking force and Anti-skate settings Glad to hear that helped. | |
| Phono cables What cartridge? What turntable? Some cartridges interact with EMI from some TT motors, which is one of the only ways I can think of to have hum only when the stylus is in the grooves. | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time Pesky, in response to your rhetorical question, i dunno. DO Rega turntables produce PRAT, in fact? You suppose they do, but that’s an opinion to which you’re entitled. | |
| Am I a hopeless audio snob? AMG also make fast Mercedes Benz’s. Your choice, like my choices, is the natural result of your past audio experience. Thus it’s very personal. I’m glad you didn’t just follow a dealer’s advice blindly, as one might have inferred. Congratulations... |