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| My battle with sibilance. Mijostyn, you cannot assess whether any speaker has a deliberate gundry dip incorporated into the crossover simply by measuring the response of the speaker, because there are natural dips that occur in association with a crossover from one Driver ... | |
| Phono preamp tube rolling. Tom, What is “pyseabo”? Is it another word for “placebo”? Or did autocorrect do damage to your intentions?to the OP: I try to use high quality tubes. Once or twice I’ve paid extra to RAM or Kevin for matched or low noise tubes. However tubes age a... | |
| Phono preamp tube rolling. In general, I am not a fan of tube rolling. Listener bias makes it almost certain that you will be certain you hear differences right away. (Because you spent money on the new tubes.) But those impressions tend to fade over time, unless you are ... | |
| Technics or Kuzma turntable. There is not one single high quality direct-drive turntable that I can think of that relies solely upon aluminum as an EMI shield. For one example, the Kenwood L07D uses a 7mm thick stainless steel platter sheet under the LP (~5 lbs of stainless s... | |
| Calling all Sota fans. My friend with the Doehmann sold it in favor of a major downsizing to his system, associated with moving to a smaller domicile. He now uses hi-rez digital streaming exclusively. Sold all his LPs, too, and gave me a few for free. So in essence, ... | |
| Technics or Kuzma turntable. Stop already. | |
| Calling all Sota fans. Jay, where do you live? There’s a train coming through any minute now. Pop your fave LP on the old Cosmos and tell us how it all works. | |
| Ortofon Cadenza Black loading There's something wrong or very different about what I wrote compared to what Edgewear wrote? My advice is totally compatible with his. | |
| Calling all Sota fans. Don’t you think that when Doehmann finally develops a vacuum hold down system, he will add $20,000 to the price? I do. You are probably looking at a $90,000 turntable with vacuum. By the way, when my friend decided to sell his helix, I could’ve pu... | |
| Ortofon Cadenza Black loading In case there is anyone on this thread who does not already know this, the convention is to load the cartridge with a resistance that is at least 10 times that of the internal resistance of the cartridge itself. Therefore, a typical low output mov... | |
| Calling all Sota fans. I have had extensive listening experience with the Doehmann helix in the context of a very high end system that belonged to my neighbor. His phono stage was the Ypsilon plus either the Ypsilon SUT or an EMIA SUT.. Cartridges were top of the line L... | |
| Audio Technica AT 666 vacuum disc I have a question about the AT666 which occurs to me probably because I have never seen one in the flesh: I can understand how the mat holds the LP, but what holds the mat to the platter? Does it generate vacuum suction on both sides? | |
| Technics SP 10 mc II. Worth looking at? You are correct that the chip is not used in the SP 10 mk 2. However it is used in some other Technics direct drive turntables, other than the mk 3. In any case I made an error. Thank you for correction. But this is also an indication that the mk ... | |
| Technics SP 10 mc II. Worth looking at? The only "irreplaceable" part is the single IC, MN6042. JP Jones has developed a replacement part for the MN6042, built from discrete SMD components. So there is nothing to fear in terms of parts. His business is called "Fidelis Analog", and yo... | |
| Calling all Sota fans. Mijo, You are correct in thinking that the Phoenix Engineering speed controller, which was adapted for use in the Eclipse option, sees the motor as a 3-phase AC synchronous device. Yet both SOTA and Bill Carlin refer to the new Eclipse motor as a... |