lewm
Responses from lewm
| I need help describing the sound of a SET to a friend in English. If you’re asking me, I have my own audio passions, convictions, and biases, and they don’t include SET-based systems. Although I do respect the concepts, I am not knowledgeable when it comes to the current market. | |
| I need help describing the sound of a SET to a friend in English. I once listened for an afternoon to two of the very expensive SET amplifiers made by Audio Note, original Kondo designs from Japan, not the UK imitations. One was the Ongaku (around $70,000) the other was a Kegon (more than $100K) up- and downstr... | |
| I need help describing the sound of a SET to a friend in English. Music comes out of a speaker, not an amplifier. If an SET is properly mated to a great speaker (high efficiency, high impedance), then you will have great music. | |
| Why do these Zyx Fuji and Airy 3 have such a dark sound? Azimuth adjustment does change the channel balance, ever so slightly for very large changes in azimuth angle. Which means that adjusting azimuth is almost never a good way to correct for channel imbalance, because the stylus tip will end up at a w... | |
| Why do these Zyx Fuji and Airy 3 have such a dark sound? Your problem is that EE degree. This is about “feelings”, not measurements. (I am joking.). In addition to measuring frequency response of the Ultimate, did you also measure the frequency response of some other cartridge that does not appear to ... | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time You can use the term PRAT any way you want. Or it can be a criterion by which to judge or describe vinyl reproduction. Would be my response. | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time It’s certainly viable, just like any other adjective we care to use to describe our subjective impression of how a system or a component may sound to us. Such adjectives are most meaningful when the other guy was in the same room with you at the s... | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time And the turntable. It’s telling that Phoenix is driving the motor. | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time Excuse me, but wasn’t it Tiefenbrun’s (Linn’s) point that turntables create PRAT, not cartridges or anything else in the signal path. So, what turntable? Probably not an LP12. But maybe. | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? Evidently the Tru-Glider is an underhung tonearm with zero headshell offset. That’s cool! However the website contains BS typical of other manufacturers of underhung tonearms. They don’t seem to understand their own product. To wit: the claim is f... | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? I’ve thought long and hard about doing that for the Kenwood L07J tonearm, the standard tonearm on the L07D turntable. Just to bypass their own IC and their internal tonearm wires, which are both the original Litzwire type. The Kenwood OEM IC must ... | |
| Phono input cap to preamp I couldn’t download the article without paying a fee. However it’s been referred to in several ways at various sites. Seems C1 and C2 are tantalum in the OEM circuit. Tantalum’s are polar and correct orientation is mandatory lest they catch fire. ... | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? Jafox, Given the difficulty you describe in comparing tonearm with vs tonearm without, and with which I agree, I choose a second best option, which is to listen for several weeks on a regular basis to one setup in my own system where I know intima... | |
| Hum with Ypsilon MC26L SUT that goes away with touching Seems the problem was solved by the OP in August, 2020. | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? Jafox, you’re replacing one conjecture with which you don’t agree with another conjecture that suits you. By the way shouldn’t the comparison be between tonearm A that has a permanent headshell, where the wiring runs all the way from cartridge pin... |