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| Smart power supplies for turntable Anything you want. | |
| Is a Ortofon Black a step down from a Pickering XSV 3000 Have you considered having your stylus assembly rebuilt? I know this is a course of action usually reserved for MC cartridges, but in this case if you are desperate to preserve the original sound, and if you cannot find or afford an NOS XSV5000 st... | |
| What are your favorite recordings that sound best to you? I own about 2500 LPs. So at any given moment there are a few thousand LPs that I have not listened to "lately". Seems to me that every time I pull out a few LPs that are not in regular rotation, I discover another gem. Therefore, it would be ut... | |
| Smart power supplies for turntable So sorry, I meant "cindyment", not "candy". I mistyped "cindy". | |
| CUTTING DOWN A TONEARM CABLE What has all the above got to do with the flat assertion that Canare are the best RCA connectors? I am not in the market for a phono stage. Your amplifiers would benefit from balanced phono drive, however. | |
| Smart power supplies for turntable Good points to consider from candy. | |
| What Record Clamp for LP12? This might be a world record for bringing a thread back to life. 14 years!!! | |
| Interesting information from Analog Planet on Stylus Cleaner Onzow Zero Dust. Insofar as a deposit has mass, it cannot help but affect SQ, I would think, by adding mass to the moving mass of the stylus/cantilever. It is unlikely to have no effect. The deposit can also affect how the stylus tip sits in the groove or alter t... | |
| Smart power supplies for turntable There was a fairly long thread about the Clearaudio optional battery supply, and the OP eventually bought it, for $1200, even after he received tons of advice on alternative approaches for fewer dollars. You might want to check out that thread. I... | |
| A pitch too High! Why will the Boulder phono work well with the Kleos and not so well with the Paua? Kleos makes 0.5mV at standard stylus velocity and Paua makes 0.4mV. Not enough difference in their outputs to make a difference in practice. | |
| Next MC Cartridge Advice/Recommendations All the cartridges on your list are worthy. And you’d probably like them all. Ortofon and Lyra do not have a reputation for warmth, if that helps. | |
| Smart power supplies for turntable Forgot to mention the key fact that AC power regenerators deliver a rock stable clean 120V, as well as pure 60Hz. | |
| Does Kronos Sparta turntable come with a tonearm? For a $24K turntable, you should not have to purchase a "power supply", and in fact, you don't for the Kronos. | |
| Smart power supplies for turntable If your local AC is truly "dirty" and unstable as to line voltage, then you might consider a power regenerator, like any of several made by PS Audio. These devices are like amplifiers; they run off your line AC, convert it to DC, and then put out... | |
| Recommendations for setting VTA Elliot, I personally have always used the "start with headshell level" technique. I have never ever, nor will I ever, take the trouble to directly measure SRA. Not the least of the reasons for my choice is the fact that I am not trained to measur... |