lewm
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| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 On the issue of RIAA correction, I certainly agree that adherence to the standard curve should be tight, but my question is how tight makes any difference? Channel D claim their phono stages are within 0.1db, guaranteed, and typically within 0.01d... | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 I have heard the DSA Phono2 in my own home, demonstrated for me by its creator. I compared it to my tweaked Atma-sphere MP1. The DSA did everything well, best of all, I thought it was not especially "solid-state" sounding compared to the MP1. Th... | |
| dust protection for turntables Definitely wanna remember to uncover your tube amplifiers when they’re in use. | |
| dust protection for turntables No cost solution for those who only want to protect the platter when not playing LPs is an old, warped, or otherwise damaged LP. Everyone has at least one of those. | |
| Dust cover up or down? Mijo, I am trying to understand the structure of your Cosmos. Am I correct in thinking the cover hinges to the rear of the wood that forms the visible outer appearance of the TT? And you’re saying that the wood plus dust cover are isolated from th... | |
| dust protection for turntables Is there no end of suppressed opinion regarding perhaps the most boring of all audiophile obsessions? There’s another recent and active thread for this commentary. Use it if you like it. I don’t and won’t. | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 Just one man's opinion, but I have heard the Nagra, albeit not in a few years, and I do not think it would play in the league with Ypsilon, EMIA, and FM Acoustics. Like I said, it's only my opinion. drbond, I have not kept up with the latest and... | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 In response to your question about SUTs vs different LOMC cartridges, as long as the cartridge has a low internal resistance, which nearly any good LOMC will have, i.e., less than ~20 ohms, the choice of a SUT is more linked to how much added gain... | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 I've heard both the EMIA and the Ypsilon (on different days driving the same downstream components), and I own a Steelhead v2. You can't go wrong with either of the higher priced alternatives; they both sounded great to me, also using both a Ypsi... | |
| I wrote/mailed tax checks today... What has this thread got to do with Analog Audio? Please take it somewhere else among Audiogon Forums. I don’t care where. | |
| Question about Cartridge Loading Raul, It’s not my rule. It’s just physics. If you load a cartridge that has a 45R internal impedance with a 100R resistor, of course it will work. But a large fraction of the cartridge voltage output will be lost to ground and you will lose some H... | |
| Question about Cartridge Loading It's not that 450 ohms is "optimal". It's that you want the phono stage input impedance to be at least 10X the internal impedance of the cartridge. In your case, 10X = 450 ohms. So any input impedance equal to OR GREATER THAN 450 ohms would com... | |
| Inexpensive Good Vintage Turntables? Although PBN do beautiful work on what are already excellent Denon turntables, the final cost would probably not meet the cost criteria laid down in the OP. Otherwise, great idea. I’d vote for a Lenco L75 with maybe a few cost effective upgrades. | |
| Dust cover up or down? soko, I don't agree with your interpretation. There was a time in the history of audio per se as a hobby, let's say since the mid-60s, when the dust cover was an expected part of a turntable, and many manufacturers provided a hinged attachment f... | |
| Question about Cartridge Loading For LOMC cartridges, where the typical inductance is less than 50 micro-Henries, and often much less than that, does it really matter much to include inductance in the calculation? I doubt it. We saw a month ago that for the low output MI cartri... |