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| Everybody’s Top 5 - Vinyl Gene Ammons/Boss Tenor: GREAT album, I agree. | |
| Which Tube Phono Pre Amo? MOSFETs are excellent for an amplifier output stage. I don't think they'd be generally useful in a phono gain stage, because they generally are not high gain devices. FETs and bipolar transistors work best. I am not a big solid state guy, so I ... | |
| Everybody’s Top 5 - Vinyl You want me to pick 5 out of my about 2500 LPs, all of whom are parts of me, to greater and lesser degrees? I could never settle on 5. Also, are you asking about sonics, purely, or about emotion? | |
| Who needs a Diamond Cantilever...? 💍 If moving mass is THE factor, as you say, Mijo, then MI or IM cartridges would rule. Actually I could live with only that type but I’d miss LOMC and MM. Raul is the mentor who made me the pantheist I am today, where cartridges are concerned. Thank... | |
| HiFi News Test Record Azimuth Triplanar will not be for sale, except maybe from my estate.By the way, the TP azimuth adjustment, because it’s achieved by twisting the arm wand, also affects zenith. This for me is another reason to set azimuth for 90 degrees and forget it. | |
| Who needs a Diamond Cantilever...? 💍 I think you missed my point or are completely ignoring it. My point was only that in a moving magnet or moving iron cartridge, the coil does not move. That was a response to your earlier statement that moving magnet cartridges were inferior to mov... | |
| HiFi News Test Record Azimuth Wlutke, just want to make the point that azimuth adjustment is not done to correct channel imbalance; it’s done to minimize crosstalk. Adjusting azimuth does have a small effect on balance but the resulting angle required to produce a small change... | |
| Looking for a 2-channel high end volume control For the OP, LDR type would not be the first choice, I agree. But then again, I just noticed that he is specifically looking for a chip type active control. Therefore, none of my suggestions of resistor based controls would be of interest. I don’t ... | |
| HiFi News Test Record Azimuth If you are going to adjust azimuth "visually" (Chakster), then you really ought not to have a tonearm with azimuth adjustment capability, because in most tonearms, the default position of the headshell will already give you 90 degrees of azimuth, ... | |
| Looking for a 2-channel high end volume control And Khozmo, which is excellent. | |
| Looking for a 2-channel high end volume control I never heard of Cirrus, but there is DACT, Goldpoint, Elma, Shallco, Noble, Penny and Giles, and etc, all of which make excellent two-channel balanced attenuators in your choice of impedance. (I am sure I left out a few other quality brand names.... | |
| Who needs a Diamond Cantilever...? 💍 Raul, the accepted rationale for why low output moving coil cartridges sound better than high output moving coil cartridges has to do with the moving of the coil itself. In other words lower effective mass. However, that same reasoning does not ap... | |
| Life After Technics SL1200 Mk5 Another factor in the capacitance issue is the nature of the input stage of your phono section. Vacuum tubes and transistors have a characteristic input capacitance that is added to the capacitance seen by the cartridge. For example one of the mos... | |
| Who needs a Diamond Cantilever...? 💍 +1 for chakster. | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. Yeah, please do enlighten the rest of us. I am sure that anyone with a moniker that incorporates the word "skating", sans vowels and a "g", is expert. |