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| Pioneer SL-570D TT Tonearm Suggestions Any good tonearm would do but the constraints on your choices have to do with the effective length and pivot to spindle distance and the specifics of how the OEM tonearm is mounted. None of these parameters are known to anyone but you. Not to say ... | |
| Phono input cap to preamp I looked up the schematic. C2 is the top half of a capacitative voltage divider network. C1 is the other half. Together these act on AC frequencies delivered to the input transistors. R1 is your phono load resistance. I have never seen this topolo... | |
| Phono input cap to preamp You got a plausible explanation for the capacitor from Atmasphere. I wouldn’t second guess him, but I do wonder why Hafler chose to use 10uF there and why he didn’t use a film cap, as well. Is this an MM stage or MC? If MC, what is the value of th... | |
| Phono input cap to preamp Can you reference a schematic? “C2” does not sound like the code for a series input capacitance. (I’d expect it to be C1.) Moreover if the phono load R is 47K ohms, 10uF is way overkill for maintaining a low bass response. You could get away with ... | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? +2 to Frogman. The best connector is no connector at all. IME, the worst sounding connectors have been those that are massive and pretentious. If I must use a connector, I use low mass types, like KLE. | |
| Review of Quadratic MC-1 SUT With Comparisons to Other SUTs Is it “a SUT” or “an SUT”? | |
| Review of Quadratic MC-1 SUT With Comparisons to Other SUTs 3easy, isn’t it a bit premature to bemoan a lack of attention to Mulveling’s nice post? There is a lot of meat here to chew on, and we haven’t even heard from some of the pros, like Intact Audio and Atmasphere. I was only trying to point out, as M... | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? For very low output cartridges, there is a good argument to be made for eliminating the headshell, because it adds up to two pairs of physical contacts in the signal path. So two of my tonearms one is a Reed and the other is a Triplanar have non-d... | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! My buddy in Burlington VT told me what you guys are expecting today. Wind chill of -25 degrees. I don’t own a coat for that. I am vacationing, if you can call it a vacation when you are already retired, at our house on the island of Vieques off th... | |
| SUT Interconnects I would have assumed you want low capacitance all the way from the cartridge to the phono inputs. Now you’ve got me thinking. audioguy85, can you say more about your 1:10 SUT that results in the cartridge seeing 100 ohms? Insofar as transformers ... | |
| Review of Quadratic MC-1 SUT With Comparisons to Other SUTs Isn’t any SUT going to color the sound differently when driven by for example a Benz cartridge (high internal resistance, richly colored) vs an Ortofon A90 (low internal resistance, very neutral), not to mention the inherent character of any phono... | |
| Review of Quadratic MC-1 SUT With Comparisons to Other SUTs Thank you for the very articulate critique of your various SUTs, but you do also realize that the tonal balance as affected by a SUT will be very dependent upon the specs of the cartridge to which it is mated (Signal voltage output, internal resis... | |
| Phono stage and preamp overload Upon further thought, I may be wrong. In a full function preamplifier (phono and line inputs) the line level inputs connect to the attenuators. So depending upon the type of attenuator, there would be an effect on overload. Sorry. For phono, the a... | |
| Phono stage and preamp overload I am wondering how the attenuators on a linestage protect its inputs from overload. That doesn’t happen, because the attenuators enter the circuit after the signal. Any distortion produced by overload will be audible (if it’s of sufficient magnitu... | |
| What To Do? So basically, every responder on either of the two parallel threads you’ve started is recommending stuff he owns or has owned. The result is confusion and some faulty advice. That’s no way to decide how to spend $12,000. I’d advise you to keep you... |