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| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear Mike, have you heard the K3 or are you extrapolating from your vast prior experience as to its sonic character? Also, would you care to mention which of your turntables wins the sustain trophy? I’m guessing it’s a belt drive type. | |
| VARIAC: Procedure??? 2 old 30 wpc tube amps, unused for 4 years I’m still perseverating on your basement with “zero” humidity. One important bit of advice that I and some others failed to convey is to always use a load resistance on the amplifier outputs. If you don’t have a suitable power resistor, you can u... | |
| Cartridges with that musical coherence - having heard it, I need to learn more Markus, I advise you to take some time with any new equipment (in this case new tubes and a new cartridge) before waxing so poetic about the improvement to sound quality. We are all prone to conflate “different “ with “better”. It’s also a good id... | |
| VARIAC: Procedure??? 2 old 30 wpc tube amps, unused for 4 years In some tube amplifiers Zenor diodes are used to provide voltages to key elements of the circuit, for example the bias voltage on the grids of the output tubes. Diodes don’t conduct until a certain threshold voltage has been reached.Other kinds of... | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear Mijo, You wrote, in reference to the K3: "It's three failings are it's lack of isolation, a dust cover and vacuum clamping."I think your orthodoxy is getting in the way of your logic. If you read MF's review, you will see that instead of "isolati... | |
| Adding a Turntable Mat First 2 posts offer very specific opinions, and then you wrote that you “wouldn’t mess around with the mat”. ( I now realize that your original response was the 4th post.) From there the responses went off in many directions. Just thought I’d add ... | |
| Adding a Turntable Mat It’s very funny that the OP asks about mats, and he gets advice about a half a dozen other different tweaks by and large, with almost no mention of turntable mats. I must disagree with anyone who maintains that mats make very little difference. Ra... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above Tsushima, I have owned two samples of the SP 10 mk2. During the same timeframe, I also owned and still own an SP 10 Mk3, a Kenwood L07D, a Victor TT101, and a Denon Dp80, not to mention a highly tweaked Lenco. At one time or another I heard all th... | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear The K3 has essentially the same form factor as any of Krebs’ developmental prototypes. I’ve seen photos along the way. Richard worked on this project for years before he joined forces with OMA. In designing and adapting the cast iron plinth that d... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above Not a big fan of SP10 mk2, but I do agree with Atma and Chak that the OEM rubber mat is a negative and should be replaced. I think the top line Technics G series with a selected mat might outperform the mk2, but I have no experience to corroborate... | |
| SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best? Edgeware, I am puzzling over your saying ..."the Denon has only 21dB gain and not suitable for low impedance cartridges,..." First, 21 db of gain equates to a voltage gain of about 11-fold. So, it would provide more than adequate voltage gain for ... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above One of the great benefits of hooking up a cartridge in balanced mode to a balanced phono stage is the total lack of hum problems. I have been doing this for decades, and I have never experienced a problem with hum using any of many cartridges. How... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above Mrm, I tried to answer the question you seemed to be asking. Incidentally, all hum is AC by definition. I inferred that sometimes you can reduce hum, if hum is a problem, by NOT grounding the TT/ tonearm to the phono stage. Also, note that the tra... | |
| SME service is terrible. Can’t buy any accessories from local dealers here in USA Vintage British cars use anything but metric fasteners. Typically “Whitworth”, which is their own system of measurement for nuts and bolts. I guess it depends upon how you define “vintage“.while the UK was a member of the EU, they likely went metric. | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above Mr m, dedicated phono cables meant only to be used between a tonearm and a phono stage input, usually have a female DIN plug at the tonearm end. A DIN plug mates with a male DIN to be found at the base of the tonearm, and it contains five connecti... |