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| Trying to Help My Nephew With His First Venture Into High End Audio Or that. | |
| Trying to Help My Nephew With His First Venture Into High End Audio I agree. Tube component is a good idea. Least expensive tube MM phono stage would be the Bellari. Also you can consider good used phono stage in the same price range. | |
| Technics magnesium tonearm 1200G vs Jelco 850 In my experience, it is usually more about the arm and cartridge combination than it is about the arm and turntable combination. In other words if your cartridge is better mated to the standard arm on the 1200 G, then you will hear everything as s... | |
| How to isolate turntable from footstep shake or vibration Doesn’t the Techdas turntable come equipped with an air suspension built into the pillars that support it? I thought it did. | |
| My battle with sibilance. Mijo, There is a long and very informative thread on the "Gundry Dip", also known as the BBC dip, on Hydrogen Audio. A few of the contributors are speaker designers or acoustic engineers. For one thing, it is pointed out that a "natural" dip in ... | |
| Who needs a Diamond Cantilever...? 💍 That expletive is really hard to pronounce. What language is it? I don't blame you for your consternation at being asked to pay $600 to diagnose a problem in your preamplifier, but could that be because SS are not necessarily expert with electro... | |
| Turntable isolation platform Recommendations? To each his own, 3. | |
| My battle with sibilance. And if your system slices your throat. don't go running to Mijostyn.Seriously, Mijo, good point. I never knew about the Gundry dip. | |
| Turntable isolation platform Recommendations? Just for the record, I was never an electron microscopist myself, but as a lab chief, I did have such a person and her microscope under my supervision for about 10-15 years out of my 40+ years as a virologist, and before and after that, there was ... | |
| Turntable rumble: what causes it? "The turntable sits on an antique wrought iron table with glass top. It sits about 5 feet from the speakers. "I saw this post from you after having submitted my last post. At least by description, your set-up sounds like a set-up for woofer pump... | |
| Turntable rumble: what causes it? There are long threads on "woofer pumping", and there are several possible causes. You might do a search here and on Vinyl Asylum (go to Audio Asylum and select Vinyl Asylum from the list). VA has a good search engine. | |
| Turntable isolation platform Recommendations? We now return you to your regularly scheduled program. | |
| Classic Ortofon Cartridges: The MC2000 MK II or the MC3000 MK II? The Ortofon M20FL Super is a superb contender in the MM category. And really "cheap" by any standard. Was once discussed on the old MM thread. | |
| Technics SP10 MK3 Restoration solypsa, There are many aftermarket plinth makers who can remove an SP10 Mk2 or Mk3 motor assembly from its square-ish surrounding escutheon and mount only the motor assembly in a plinth specially designed for that purpose. I think OMA can do tha... | |
| Anyone with Manley Chinook use a custom Power Cord? JB, On the subject of changing capacitors, the basis for choosing the value of the output coupling capacitors is to provide for the best possible extreme low frequency response, first of all. (f = 1/2*pi*R*C, where R is the net impedance seen by ... |