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| Voltage mode vs current mode phono stages Hi Ralph, You wrote, "This suggests that as the impedance of the cartridge goes up, the gain of the circuit goes down, which is probably good since the output of the cartridge will be higher." The linear relationship between voltage output and st... | |
| Butcher Block Acoustics I cannot recall the last time anyone made the earth move for me. More's the pity. Mijo, you ARE far from Vilchur, Dohmann, Fletcher, and Conti. Three of them are deceased and the fourth is in Australia. | |
| Voltage mode vs current mode phono stages Boothroyd, LOMC cartridges, like the Lyra cartridges you mention, will have inductance in the low micro-Henry range. The low output MI cartridges made and marketed by SS have an inductance in the low milli-Henry range. In other words, the induct... | |
| Voltage mode vs current mode phono stages Mijo, are you going for digital RIAA correction? | |
| Voltage mode vs current mode phono stages "Suitable" = very low capacitance, I assume. My question was more about the effect of MI inductance on cartridge output impedance as frequency increases and how that affects the efficiency of current drive. It would be of interest to know which o... | |
| Voltage mode vs current mode phono stages Dover did not mention what current driven device he is using, so far as I can see. However, he did say he feeds its output to the phono section of a Marantz 7 preamplifier. That suggests he is using one of the very few available outboard devices... | |
| Voltage mode vs current mode phono stages Ledoux, First, thanks for being one of the first among us to make a direct comparison and to report on your result. You wrote, "The tube/ voltage mode phono sounds more vivid, the SS current mode sounds more warm and relaxing." It's a matter of ... | |
| Voltage mode vs current mode phono stages boothroyd, Apart from the fact that SoundSmith are the only company that currently market LOMI cartridges, what was your point? Have you tried to drive a current mode phono stage with an SS LOMI? Thanks. | |
| Low Output MC recommendations? Or see if you can find a Denon DL-S1. Or for a bit more money an Audio Technics ART9Xa or i. | |
| Pigskin or jico leather mat No problemo. | |
| Pigskin or jico leather mat I have never tried a leather or pigskin mat on my Victor TT101, or on any other turntables, so I am not among those who recommend them. However, I am sure that such mats might be excellent. I use an SAEC SS300 mat on my TT101. Considering the ver... | |
| What trans (SUT) for a Victor mc-5E cartridge? Raul, I can only hope that you get some help for your hostility. Did you notice that I agree with you on a choice of SUT? Perhaps you are the one who either does not read or does not fully understand. You need a certain amount of signal voltage to... | |
| What trans (SUT) for a Victor mc-5E cartridge? I just checked the specifications of the Denon AU 340 transformer. I agree it would be a good choice for the OP, if he will have enough total gain with just a 1 to 10 step up ratio. Using the 40 ohm inputs of the transformer, a gain ratio of 1 to ... | |
| What trans (SUT) for a Victor mc-5E cartridge? Dear Raul, please reread my post. Transformers have no impedance per se. My point is that with the peculiar nature of this cartridge, having a low output and a high internal resistance, the choices of gain ratio are limited to around 1 to 10 or ma... | |
| What trans (SUT) for a Victor mc-5E cartridge? Because MM phono stages vary quite a bit in the amount of phono gain they provide, from 39db for the Ypsilon to 50db for the Manley Steelhead, just to name two extreme examples. Then there is the fact that the OP wants to amplify a cartridge that ... |