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| 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... | |
| Turntable Placement Between Speakers with Short Interconnect? Mijostyn is correct, in my opinion. In these situations you want the shortest ICs between the cartridge and phono, and the longest ICs between the linestage and the amplifier. The amplifier should be situated as close as possible to the speakers, ... | |
| Technics SL 1200GR with What Cartridge??? Not to say that the SL1200mk7 Anniversary Edition is not a worthy turntable, but I think it is meant to be viewed as a decided step down from the G series, not only in price and build quality but also in features. For example, I believe it uses t... | |
| VPI forum Dear Secret-vinyl, Since your question has nothing to do with this thread, it behooves you to start your own thread. And that will benefit you as well, because more people will see your question. If you do so, you might consider providing much m... | |
| Please Help T3F problems Good point on the already heavy weight of a stone body Koetsu. I neglected to take that into account. | |
| Frank Kuzma is releasing a new arm! Here is what I found about the stiffness of Sapphire, albeit on a website for a company that sells things made of sapphire for industrial use: "Sapphire is one of the hardest materials on earth. Mechanical hardness is typically measured using the... | |
| Frank Kuzma is releasing a new arm! Frank Kuzma is no dummy, I totally agree. I greatly admire his turntables, and based on the kudos accorded to them, I also admire his tonearms, until now, possibly. But sometimes even smart guys over reach. We shall see. You wrote, "no, you can... | |
| Frank Kuzma is releasing a new arm! Let’s spare ourselves the obvious jokes about its cost. The elephant in the room is that this tonearm is an elephant. At 60g effective mass, not many if any cartridges will qualify, if you base tonearm matching upon the equation for resonant frequ... | |
| Please Help T3F problems I can tell you that Raul does not have Apogee speakers. You are correct in noting that there is a huge difference between your two cartridges. You could, in the interim until you can get the T3F fixed, move the Koetsu to the LP12, but you need a... |