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| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other I really don’t know how anyone can evaluate such a co-dependent item as a tonearm out of the context of one’s own system or at least a system with which one is intimately familiar. But hey… Listening to Eartha Kitt sing “Santa Baby”. Just sublime. | |
| What'd You Get For Xmas? I did not get my Festivus pole up in time, so no presents but I am airing my grievances. | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other Mike, you didn’t lower the SPL around your TT. You identified some effective bandaids for the existing high SPL. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Happy holiday to all. I gotta go dig up my copy of Eartha Kitt singing “Santa Baby”. It’s... | |
| Does a cartridge that has been in storage for an extended period need play time… Some other advice not related to your question: the input impedance of your phono stage should ideally be 10X or more greater than the cartridge’s internal impedance. | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! Where does the 10% rule come from? I’ve heard it too, but I don’t know where or when. Let’s keep in mind also that there is no one value of AS that is correct at all times for all recordings. Ergo the analogy to aligning the suspension of an autom... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other Funny story. To prove in principle that my contention he needed more gain in order to soothe his itch, I lent the owner of the Ypsi my own 25-year-old Quicksilver phonolinepreamp which is worth maybe $1200. I hooked it up in his system so the sig... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other I’ve heard the Ypsilon in a system with which I was quite familiar, and I thought it was superb, but in comparison to other very expensive phono stages, one must keep in mind that it makes only 39db of gain. If you own a high end LOMC cartridge yo... | |
| ''Óriginal parts'', ''identity '' and ''retip'' conundrum I think rebuilding and/or retipping may be a bit like plastic surgery; one is better off not knowing too much about it. Once you do gain the knowledge, the bloom is off the rose. | |
| Does a cartridge that has been in storage for an extended period need play time… Atmasphere, Your experience runs counter to mine. One can never know if a cartridge we like in the present might have sounded even better when it was fresh out of manufacture, so I certainly would not claim that suspensions do not degrade over tim... | |
| ''Óriginal parts'', ''identity '' and ''retip'' conundrum But didn’t SoundSmith recently introduce the boron option? Which must mean he recently found a source. Some others do too. (Listening to Barton piano concerto #2 which is not relaxing, for the pianist at least.) | |
| ''Óriginal parts'', ''identity '' and ''retip'' conundrum Was it always the case that manufacturers were limited to Ogura and Namiki? Possibly not. If not, then some cartridges with “house built” cantilever and stylus cannot be restored exactly as original, unless the OEM can still do the restoration wit... | |
| Does a cartridge that has been in storage for an extended period need play time… I regularly wake up my cartridges by playing bands 2a,b, and c, of the original Cardas test LP. (The latest version does this at 45 rpm on side 1.) if that doesn’t help, you may have a problem with suspension. On the other hand, I own many 30+ yea... | |
| Experience with DS Audio Optical Cartridge Systems Audioquest4life and Lancelock, I too am in the DMV area, Bethesda to be precise. We really ought to get together for listening to each other's systems. There is nothing like re-affirmation to get the old audio juices flowing. Sorry, I don't own... | |
| Why do my bass drivers shake violently listening to vinyl "The woofer flapping issue is prevalent among people with small woofers that are tuned to go as low as possible. They have to move a lot farther to produce the same results as a large woofer." Only if the bass response is artificially boosted, as ... | |
| van den Hul Colibri - Reconditioning I think you ought to sit back with a shot of whiskey and relax. This is not life and death. Because you read something in a "paper" does not necessarily mean it applies to your particular cartridge, even assuming that you have kept meticulous tr... |